GPOTD 02.08.2024

[Peen Simmons]

Prototype 1

Salvaged old growth Port Orford cedar body, quartersawn roasted maple neck, bog oak fretboard, cedar and bog oak headstock veneer, roasted maple and bog oak pickup covers/pickup rings/knobs, aluminum truss rod cover, bone nut.

25.5” scale length, 24 frets, 1 3/4” nut width.

Custom designed, handmade humbucking pickups. Bar magnet design.

White milk paint with Tru Oil top coat.

Mastery bridge and vibrato, Hipshot locking tuners, Jescar stainless steel frets, Callaham stainless steel strap buttons.

https://ansibleinstruments.com/prototype-1

 

[jelloman]

If we're lucky it will stay just a prototype...

 

[Gorgon90]

It looks well made but the neck/body join annoys me. If you're doing a 24 fret neck, why kill the access by joining at the 19th fret?

 

[Chad]

They need to round off the upper bout then it would be kinda cool.

 

[tiger roach]

It looks very cool. But I agree with @Gorgon90 that the access to the upper frets is borked up.

 

[Aahzz]

It looks awful.

 

[dodgechargerfan]

They need to round off the upper bout then it would be kinda cool.

I was just about to type exactly this.

 

[dodgechargerfan]

It looks very cool. But I agree with @Gorgon90 that the access to the upper frets is borked up.

Oh. I didn’t see that…

 

[frunobulax]

I like that .

 

[Machinegunner]

Pretty cool, but I’d prefer some kind of fret inlays and not a fan of stainless steel frets.

 

[Lerxst]

It looks well made but the neck/body join annoys me. If you're doing a 24 fret neck, why kill the access by joining at the 19th fret?

Probably more an aesthetic vs functional choice

 

[baimun]

The old growth cedar, quarter sawn roasted maple neck, and a few other things makes me think that a lot of care went into the making of this instrument and it probably sounds pretty decent.

That said.... it has one of those indistinct, almost random, shapes... like it was made for a character to play on a Saturday Morning Cartoon.

 

[Chicken Man]

Pretty cool at first glance. I'd play that in a B-52s type club act.

 

[GomezAddams]

I don't hate it as much as I should.

 

[Denverdave]

I don't hate it as much as I should.

This exactly.

 

[wok]

Back to the drawing board I’d say

 

[Monson]

What is this, 1950s Danish furniture?

 

[Chicken Man]

Dang it, all week I've been thinking that Mikesr was posting a lot of guitars I wouldn't expect out of him...

 

[Knox in Box]

The upper horn bothers me, but otherwise I like it a lot.

 

[jp_nyc]

It has an interesting mid century modern throw pillow aesthetic. But I don’t like that style of furniture, so whatever.