Meanwhile, at Warmoth...the Hombre neck!

[musicispeace]

....." if 3x3 electric guitars were such a good idea, God would've told Leo to build it that way when he brought down the electric guitar design from the mountain on tablets of stone."

Amen to that. The Tele and the Stratocaster were no mere idea of men.

 

[pabloman]

Well then obviously God was a drummer!

 

[Pelagaard]

Will there be bass versions?

 

[mayfly]

....." if 3x3 electric guitars were such a good idea, God would've told Leo to build it that way when he brought down the electric guitar design from the mountain on tablets of stone."

So you're saying that Paul Bigsby was God?  (I can almost believe that actually ...)

 

[bagman67]

Good thing I'm immune - if 3x3 electric guitars were such a good idea, God would've told Leo to build it that way when he brought down the electric guitar design from the mountain on tablets of stone.

Actually, the original word from the burning bush, or whoever it was that was givin' Leo ideas was  a three-by-three design, but as with so many divine exhortations, stuff got a little confusticated in the implementation phase.  In the case of the six-in-line headstock, though, I'd say Leo ripping off Mister Bigsby (who probably repurposed an old Martin design, heisted from the French and German Romantic era builders) certainly was an improvement over the holy edict, functionally and stylistically.


Leo's 1949 Broadcaster prototype bore the Snakehead (more opportunities for Biblical allusion here will be left to the reader):

 

[Ace Flibble]

Ah yes, ashtray covers, another of Leo's strokes of 'genius' :laughing7:

 

[swarfrat]

My next bass will have them. Even if I take them off. On a guitar pffth, but they look oh so cool on a jazz bass with black and tortoise shell. And bridge/pickup covers.