I Am The Night-Color Me Black

[jalbertochavez]

“Do you know why it’s dark? Do you know why there’s night all around us? Do you know what the blackness is?! It’s the hate he felt, the hate you felt, the hate all of us feel and there’s too much of it. There’s just too much! And so we had to vomit it out and now it’s comin’ up all around us and choking us. So much hate. So much miserable hate.”
-Quoted from the Twilight Zone episode "I Am The Night-Color Me Black"

I'm a fan of the Twilight Zone and, among many other episodes, I've enjoyed the episode "I Am The Night-Color Me Black". The episode is about the Sun not rising on the day a man is to be executed at dawn. The man to be executed, Jagger, was wrongly accused of killing a bigot in self defense. While it is not certain if Jagger killed the bigot, the town wants him hung anyway. After the hanging the local priest speaks the aforementioned quotation and the darkness spreads all over the world. The moral of the story was to not hate each other and to not allow any kind of hate or prejudice to consume us. After watching the episode I got the idea to try to build the blackest guitar I could. Building the blackest Solist possible is not a new idea, but this is just my attempt. The only parts of this guitar that are not black are the strings, frets, the side dots, the jack, and the ball ends of the strings in the string ferrules. You can love it or hate it,...just don't hate me or anyone else.

K, here are the specs:

Black Gloss finish on both the neck & body.
Maple Warmoth Pro Jackson-style neck w/reverse headstock
Wizard neck shape
Black Schaller Mini Locking tuners
Graphite nut
Jet Black Ebony fretboard
6100 size frets
Flat top Soloist Alder body
Comfort contours & contoured heel
Standard 3-way pickup selector
500K volume pot
DiMarzio pickups (I'll let y'all wonder which)
Recessed TonePros tune-o-matic bridge
Angled string-thru holes
Black top & bottom string ferrules
Black Schaller strap locks

 

[Xplorervoodoo]

I like 'er!  :icon_thumright:

But she needs DR Black beauties, just for that extra little bit of black  arty07:

 

[jalbertochavez]

I like 'er!   :icon_thumright:

But she needs DR Black beauties, just for that extra little bit of black  arty07:

Thank you. I'd actually thought of looking for black strings but I figured they'd just be cheap gimmicks by the company selling them. However, if a company like DR is sellin' 'em I'll look into 'em.

:rock-on:  arty07:

 

[RLW]

I like it too. You're going to have to take it outside to get a killer photo, though.

 

[kreig]

I like 'er!   :icon_thumright:

But she needs DR Black beauties, just for that extra little bit of black  arty07:

Cool Idea!

 

[dbw]

"None more black."

 

[jalbertochavez]

I like it too. You're going to have to take it outside to get a killer photo, though.

Thank you. I probably will post a couple more pictures in the future. (I've been going crazy takin' pictures since I got my new camera.)

:rock-on:  arty07:

 

[jalbertochavez]

"None more black."

THANK YOU!!! Even though I was inspired by The Twilight Zone, I kept waiting for someone to quote Spinal Tap!  :headbang1:

:rock-on:  arty07:

 

[Kublai]

Love this guitar and I love that episode too!

 

[jalbertochavez]

Love this guitar and I love that episode too!

Thank you. That's cool that you've seen the episode! Did you ever see the one called, "He's Alive"? The end of that one blew me away. D@mn, Twilight Zone was a good show!  :headbang1:

:rock-on:  arty07:

 

[Kublai]

Yes, the one w Dennis Hopper as a neo-Nazi. That was a great one as well.

 

[jimh]

METAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL


:icon_thumright:
Nice One

 

[stubhead]

Are the side dot position markers black? :headbang1: Otherwise it's cheating.... :help:

 

[jalbertochavez]

METAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL


:icon_thumright:
Nice One

Thank you.

:rock-on:  arty07:

 

[jalbertochavez]

Are the side dot position markers black? :headbang1: Otherwise it's cheating.... :help:

Side dots?

J/K. No, the side dots are white. I forgot about them when I was writing the description of the guitar. D'oh!!!

:rock-on:  arty07:

 

[blue313]

In cars bikes and guitars....they all look good in black  :guitarplayer2:

 

[T.L.]

'Looks great. I'll bet it sounds great too...

 

[jalbertochavez]

In cars bikes and guitars....they all look good in black  :guitarplayer2:

Amen to that! Thank you.

:rock-on:  arty07:

 

[jalbertochavez]

'Looks great. I'll bet it sounds great too...

Thank you. You're right about the sound!

:rock-on:  arty07:

 

[riverbluff]

That looks Awsome! :guitarplayer2: