Paul-less said:
So lets hear some fine details of your plans....
Lets see a sweet, vintage bucker in the neck, some midi-equipped piezo's, and enough electronics to bring down an airplane....
I don't think I'd call them "fine" exactly. I wasn't going to go there given how off-the-wall it will be, it's a bit dull, but....
. It's an experiment, both with the neck, scale and pickups. I've been planning it for a long time, bought everything and even had built a similar sized body, but was finding reasons not to route the heel, just busy with other projects and didn't have the right bearing. Warmoth blew my reasons away when they brought out this 7/8s. I like your idea if I were going to play this one myself, because that would make an awesome recording instrument (in fact, after seeing Gregggs, I want one for me, JUST like his, that thing is beautiful, now you've added piezo to that wish list), but that would be 24.75. The target of this experiment is for people with smaller fingers than probably anyone on this forum
. Kids and smaller women, the scale is 22.71. When it's done, none of us will be able to play it above high E... and it has 26 frets :tard:. The intent is to get a deeper sound out of a too-short scale.
It is going to have a humbucker in the neck, an EMG 85 if active, a SD PAF 59 if passive, haven't decided yet. That HB route is more where a middle pickup would be given the scale I'm using. So it won't technically have a bridge or neck pickup, just like a middle, but that may be good for the application. It will have a TOM and Bigsby. The bigsby will help balance the visual since the bridge will sit insanely close to the heel, about a 1/4 inch toward the heel from the index hole. The bigsby will sit a little the other direction from the index hole and there will be a little blank body left, just enough to look good. The effect should be just a single pickup guitar with a rather normal look to those not familiar with guitars. The other pickup is further out there than a piezo, so I'll reserve that discussion till I see if it works. It's a type used in other wooden instruments to magnetically capture the vibration of the wood in all manner of ways, I'll be using two in a reverse polarity pair for hum bucking. They will be in a routed cavity in the rear near to where the bridge will be. Electronics will require a preamp and active EQ, if I use a passive HB, that may take some extra electronics. I'm hoping the pickup outputs will be so oddly different, that a balance pot will be used like a tone control.
If you look at the neck there, it's a conventional 25.5 length with a 22.71 fretboard. That is how it will fit the Warmoth 7/8s. It's also why the whole arrangement would look crazy on a normal body.
It will need a very odd set of strings, maybe heavy jazz on top getting light fast on the bottom (er, from bass to treble side).
That's a thumbnail, it will be a few weeks and I'll see if it works. You can see, it's not an exciting build like all of these I see on here and even other things I'm working on. But it is unique and should be a chance to try concepts. I'll still do a nice finish, but the build is really more technical. I think it will need to be painted just because it's two piece. Perhaps white with all it's black hardware and neck.
