My not so original guitar
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Last weekend I happened to be watching 100 greatest movie songs on one of the freeview music channels and to my shock I saw my guitar. Nothing odd there, if it was a Strat or a Les Paul. However I built my guitar, I designed it myself, I spent considerable time deciding on the shape of the body. I thought it was an original. Essentially it’s a merge of the top half of an Explorer and the bottom half of a Randy Rhoads.
The image on the left is a still from a Starship video, on the right is a photo of my as yet unpainted guitar. I really would like to finish it someday, before I can get it painted I need to sort out the stupid recessed tremelo that’s actually deeper than the body. I should have stuck with a £10 fixed bridge.