Putting together ideas for next guitar

[Rick]

Putting together ideas for my next guitar and I came across this in a wonderful book, with a depressing name: 1001 Guitars to play before you die.  Next guitar will be a blend of a prs, an LP, a breadwinner, a jazzmaster, a telecaster, a strat and an SG, maybe some other stuff thrown in there.  To help me (and other people interested), in designing this masterpiece, I'll post a few examples that somehow grabbed my attention ...

Nice paint job on this prs.  I like the injecting of stain into a living beech tree to get the coronado streaking.  Couldn't do that these days, too cruel to trees.  I like the out of phase and two knobs on the breadwinner.  On the LP the thing I like the most is the location of the pickguard.

 

[spe111]

That's a lot of guitars to blend.

 

[rgand]

I like putting elements from different guitars together to get what you want. Looking forward to seeing what you do with it.

 

[Rick]

My mission on this one will be to make a guitar, based on Warmoth parts, that is the culmination of guitar evolution.  Sort of like how a violin is standardized.  It will be the one guitar I'll want to play before I die ... until it's completed, and then I'll make another different one.
I like the location of the pickup selector on the jag, and I'm liking the witch hat knobs.
I made the tele years ago and like the wood.  It's got a fourth position series setting that I use all the time.  I also like how the black dots match the black pick ups.  Maybe making the pickups match the fret markers or go for something completely different.  Also I like how fullerton said that the the tele is, no frills, guitarists are "working cowboys."  That's me, yee-haw! The headstock is narrow so my hand never bumps it.

For the strat, I think the thing I like most is the whammy bar.
For the jazzmaster, love the body shape, but never warmed to the roller switch, or the fact that the input jack is in the pickguard.  Do like the two knobs and the toggle.

 

[pscates]

How will you incorporate all those models? Something like a Jazzmaster body, LP/SG pickups/wiring, Strat bridge/tremolo, Tele neck, PRS exotic wood/finish, etc.?

 

[Rick]

pscates: you read my mind! (at least for now)

 

[Rick]

Here are some more

 

[Rick]

MOre

 

[rgand]

You have a selection of them there. What pickups are you considering?

 

[Rick]

P90s or high output humbucker

 

[rgand]

Thanks, I was curious. Either of those would sound really good.

 

[Rick]

Either way, besides the normal switching, I'm going to include, at least, a series out of phase setting. 

 

[Rick]

Overall concept;
Strato-jazz-winner (Strat plus jazzmaster plus breadwinner)
or a
Strato Jazzerend (Strat plus jazzmaster plus reverend)
Now to start nailing down details.

 

[Rick]

I think this will be the switching

 

[Logrinn]

I think this will be the switching

Good choice. I was looking at that exact wiring scheme now that I’m planning a new build (Jaguar - so I’m thinking the 3x3 toggle switch instead).

 

[Rick]

I wrote to Freeway and they said this kind of humbucker scheme is only possible with the 3x3-05 toggle, not the 3x3-03 toggle.

 

[Logrinn]

I believe you’re right. I found the wiring scheme yesterday on their website, but I can’t sem to find it today. But I’m sure it’ll work out once I start collection parts.

 

[fdesalvo]

You’re gonna need a stage 2 clutch with that switch.