Blazer Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 For a while I have been owning a cute little half scale guitar called the "Volcano Rock-a-teer" Which is my "play-it-when-sitting-on-my-lazy-chair" guitar, I tune it in A-A tuning. But the small body and tight cutaways do not make it a serious instrument and so I've toying around with the idea of making a similar guitar but with a bigger body but still smaller than a regular strat sized unit. I also want to make a neck to my own specs for that project. So I've been searching around for wood to use and found a couple of left over pieces of mahogany left from my telecaster built, from which I can make the body and a piece of birdseye maple too short to make a normal sized neck from. And so I began to design a downsized version of Eddie Van Halen's famous striped Kramer. I can use my Gibson explorer to copy the "Banana" headstock shape from and I still have surplus Humbuckers lying around which will be perfect for that, the pickup will be in a slanted position and seeing as how a trem will not work with that scale I'll give it a non trem strings through hardtail but placed on a piece of aluminium in the shape of a Floyd Rose profile to at least get the look right. As I'm writing this down, I'm just finishing up the pencil designs for this project. They will serve as a base to make my routing templates from. As always, I'll keep you guys informed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuntinDoug Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 Cool idea! Lately I've been seriously thinking about building a franky replica... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metalhead28 Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 You should call it the 2575 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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