New Project

I have always wanted to build a guitar. I think now is finally the time to start. I have been working on an idea for a few weeks now and I think I have, more or less, the final design worked out in my head. I, am excited about this project. I'm just gonna admit it up front, this is, once again, inspired by Muse. But I'm adding my own touches to it.

The body will be modled after the Kaoss Guitar. I like that body style because it offers a lot of room to work with, and I think it looks cool. Details:

Body - Alder
Neck (not ready to make one yet, buying one is much easier) - Ebony, 25" scale, 22 fret
Bridge - Fixed
Tuners - Grover locking tuners

Pickups:
There will be two P-90s at the bridge. I am going with Kent Armstrong High Output P-90s. One will be RW/RP. They will be controlled by a switch so that I can either have only one P-90 turned on, or both on at the same time. When they are both turned on, it will be like a massive humbucker, really fat and thick sounding.

In the neck there will be a Fernandes Sustainer pickup. This also means that there will be a sustainer curcuit in the guitar. Also in the neck will probably be a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails pickup right next to the sustainer pickup, almost making it look like there is a humbucker there. I don't plan on wiring the sustainer pickup to the output, it just needs to be in there as the sustainer driver.

I will probably wire everything with a Gibson style 3-way toggle switch.

Master volume, master tone, plus the sustainer volume.

That brings us to a grand total of three knobs, four switches (2 pickup selector switches, plus the two for the sustainer unit) and four pickups (although they will be acting as if there were only two).

Last but not least, the guitar will be purple. Very Purple.

I might buy the wood for the body in the next week or so. Maybe. This is a long term project, probably taking months to finish, so don't expect frequent updates on this one. This is the beginning of the GSE-1.