davee5 Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 Check this guy's stuff out. I really doubt it's going to take off as that guitar (in my opinon) is ugly as sin and the fit and finish is pretty poor. Anyhow, I have one specific question about it. In this picture you can see the string anchors/ferrules, but I've never seen these before. They aren't true "string-thru" ferrules as they clearly (from other shots) are installed from the top. Perhaps a clever new design? Anyone seen these before? -Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegarehanman Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 Dave, looking through the site, I'm inclined to believe that only one of these guitars exists. There seem to be tons and tons of "luthier" sites where the person has built(or at least advertises) only one guitar or one copy of a model. Idk, just doesn't sit right with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertbart Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 Check this guy's stuff out. I really doubt it's going to take off as that guitar (in my opinon) is ugly as sin and the fit and finish is pretty poor. -Dave I agree it looks like a brown lima bean to me or a river rock or a throat lozenge. Hemprock???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davee5 Posted March 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 (edited) Greg: Yeah, and even more so the designer is an ID guy. In my experience too many ID "designers" creat a single prototpye, take lots o pretty pictures, and then make a pretty website aroiund it with crappy info about the development process and materials. This site fits that MO exactly. However if they really have developed the mass production technique, it might be simple to make a bunch more. That said, their necks are still of the traditional variety so it's not all that unique in the end. Bertbart: agreed, and this guy claims he wanted to create the epitome of guitar design. Quoting his "artist's statement" Why the spherical form? Adam Wehsely-Swiczinsky: "I wanted to create an erotic object, the Venus of guitars, to support the special relationship between the musician and his/ her instrument. lt was important to me to create a homogeneous body. Away from »cut away«, towards one form." Really, though, I'm just interested in those string-anchors. If those are off-the-shelf I'd love to get me some of that. -Dave Edited March 29, 2007 by davee5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherokee6 Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 I see that the strings do not go through the body a'la telecaster. My guess is that the ferrules are removable in order to insert the string akin to the pins used on an acoustic. Yes, it's ugly, but then, there are a lot of guitars out there made by major manufacturers that I think are ugly, yet, they sell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitarGuy Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 To me it appears that the balls drop in straight but when tightened up they wedge in there because they can't come out straight. Simple but effective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedishLuthier Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 If you blow up the picture you can see that each of the ferrules have small notches, pretty much like this http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Bridges,_tailp...es.html#details OK That is a completely different bridge, but you see what I mean And it’s right up there at his web page. The first prototype was finished in November 2006. After that the took the photos, made the wed page, so yeah it is highly possible that this is the only existing guitar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davee5 Posted March 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 I think SwedishLuthier wins. it does look like it's just a broken up version of a slotted plate. As for the other ideas proffered, here's my take on some innovative ideas. - GuitarGuy's balls-wedeged-in-comparably-sized-holes: this might work, but I think it would be really unstable, with teh threat of the ball end popping out at any time, especially when finally getting them up to tension. - Cherokee6's bridge-pins-for-an-electric: this is an interesting idea. You could create a slightly oversized hole in the body, slip the ferrule over the string like a necklace bead, and then use the same wedging principle from GuitarGuy's thoughts to hold the ferrule in place. This would probably be relatively stable, but hell on the wood. If you could locally harden it up, or were using pretty dense/hard woods in ferrule/locking bead region that would be pretty slick. Especially cool woiuld be if you made it of the same wood as the body, with small string openings. Then, if you pulled it off, it would look like the strings are just randomly coming out of the body with no distinct anchor point. If I wasn't 7000 miles from home and my tools right now I would totally protoype that with some maple. Anyone wanna try this for me? I could sketch up what I mean if you like, but I get half of the royalties! -Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biliousfrog Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 ...I like the shape of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prs man Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 stewmac sells the string anchors/ferrules for the top of the guitar check them out stewmac.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjhalsey Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 I kind of like it. Its different and that is what the guitar world needs right now is something different. ralphie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 I'm in with the "I like it folks" The color...well it could be more exciting, but I the guy has made a guitar for a specific theme and it's rather unique. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCH Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 (edited) - GuitarGuy's balls-wedeged-in-comparably-sized-holes: this might work, but I think it would be really unstable, with teh threat of the ball end popping out at any time, especially when finally getting them up to tension. Ouch!!! That sounds painful. I have a tailpiece design I've designed for my current lapsteel build that's similar to the ideas discussed here. Will post a pic when done. I also like the look of this guitar. Creativity is the spice of life. Edited March 29, 2007 by MCH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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