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Welcome to Day 13 of my annual New Year's New Guitar Days (NYNGD)!
Thanks for the kind words and comments on yesterday's NYNGD #2015-12!
Today we have something very special and different...
At this point it's pretty clear that I will likely never have my own Ernie Ball Music Man signature model...
So I decided to build my own! This guitar takes the Silhouette (with floating Floyd Rose) body and mounts the H-S-H pickups directly to the body like the Axis with direct-mounted pickups without a pickguard. This guitar seeks to marry all of my favorite EBMM guitars -- the Silhouette with Floyd, the Axis and the LIII -- into one.
This journey started when I had some heavily roadworn Silhouettes that were in rough, rough shape. The first thought was to refinish and refret, but then imagination ran wild and I decided to modify the guitar to make my dream EBMM! The body is a Silhouette body but I routed the normal pickup cavity (behind the pickguard) and filled it with an alder block. It has stock Silhouette DiMarzio PAF Pro pickups and a DiMarzio True Velvet middle single coil direct mounted to the body and a unique feature: The pickup selector switch is a 3-way switch (rather than 5-way) -- the down position is the bridge pickup, the up position is the neck pickup, and the middle position is neck+single coil like the #4 position on a typical EBMM 5-way switch. It also features a stock EBMM Gotoh floating Floyd Rose bridge (not the current EBMM Floyd -- the old one). The neck is a stock 24-fret Silhouette neck that needed a refret so I had a luthier do the JDB inlay at the same time, and then sent it all off to Shadoe McKee at Beyond Custom Guitars for the killer artwork -- which Joe Satriani fans might recognize!
TO BE CLEAR: This guitar will never be sold and is for my personal use. It is not a knock-off, it's a tribute. Clearly, my making this guitar for myself in no way takes away from EBMM sales -- I have 100 other EBMM's! The bottom line: If I ever had an EBMM signarture model, this would be it!
I'll be back tomorrow with another NYNGD: New Year's New Guitar Day!
Thanks for looking everyone!
Past Days:
(The back story in case you're new to my NYNGD: For the past couple of years I've done a fun thing that most of you I think enjoyed, and I thought I would do it again this year. Every year, I am a slacker about keeping my Guitar Gallery up to date... So, as a fun holiday thing, let's launch a guitar in the Guitar Gallery each day leading up to New Years Eve! In the past I've received PM's about my collection and whether I play all of these guitars. The same question came up during my NYNGD posts a few years ago and my answer was pretty detailed and well thought-out, so please check it out here!)
(Also, in case anybody gets any funny ideas -- these guitars are not at my house. They are all in my very secure and alarmed studio facility. I usually only have two guitars floating around the house...)
Welcome to Day 13 of my annual New Year's New Guitar Days (NYNGD)!
Thanks for the kind words and comments on yesterday's NYNGD #2015-12!
Today we have something very special and different...
At this point it's pretty clear that I will likely never have my own Ernie Ball Music Man signature model...
So I decided to build my own! This guitar takes the Silhouette (with floating Floyd Rose) body and mounts the H-S-H pickups directly to the body like the Axis with direct-mounted pickups without a pickguard. This guitar seeks to marry all of my favorite EBMM guitars -- the Silhouette with Floyd, the Axis and the LIII -- into one.This journey started when I had some heavily roadworn Silhouettes that were in rough, rough shape. The first thought was to refinish and refret, but then imagination ran wild and I decided to modify the guitar to make my dream EBMM! The body is a Silhouette body but I routed the normal pickup cavity (behind the pickguard) and filled it with an alder block. It has stock Silhouette DiMarzio PAF Pro pickups and a DiMarzio True Velvet middle single coil direct mounted to the body and a unique feature: The pickup selector switch is a 3-way switch (rather than 5-way) -- the down position is the bridge pickup, the up position is the neck pickup, and the middle position is neck+single coil like the #4 position on a typical EBMM 5-way switch. It also features a stock EBMM Gotoh floating Floyd Rose bridge (not the current EBMM Floyd -- the old one). The neck is a stock 24-fret Silhouette neck that needed a refret so I had a luthier do the JDB inlay at the same time, and then sent it all off to Shadoe McKee at Beyond Custom Guitars for the killer artwork -- which Joe Satriani fans might recognize!
TO BE CLEAR: This guitar will never be sold and is for my personal use. It is not a knock-off, it's a tribute. Clearly, my making this guitar for myself in no way takes away from EBMM sales -- I have 100 other EBMM's! The bottom line: If I ever had an EBMM signarture model, this would be it!
I'll be back tomorrow with another NYNGD: New Year's New Guitar Day!
Thanks for looking everyone!
Past Days:
#2015-1 | #2015-2 | #2015-3 | #2015-4 | #2015-5 | #2015-6 | #2015-7 | #2015-8 | #2015-9 | #2015-10 | #2015-11 | #2015-12 | #2015-13 | #2015-14 |
#2015-1 | #2015-2 | #2015-3 | #2015-4 | #2015-5 | #2015-6 | #2015-7 | #2015-8 | #2015-9 | #2015-10 | #2015-11 | #2015-15 | #2015-16 | #2015-17
#2014-1 | #2014-2 | #2014-3 | #2014-4 | #2014-5 | #2014-6 | #2014-7 | #2014-8 | #2014-9 | #2014-10
#2013-1 | #2013-2 | #2013-3 | #2013-4 | #2013-5 | #2013-6
#2012-1 | #2012-2 | #2012-3 | #2012-4 | #2012-5 | #2012-6 | #2012-7
#2015-1 | #2015-2 | #2015-3 | #2015-4 | #2015-5 | #2015-6 | #2015-7 | #2015-8 | #2015-9 | #2015-10 | #2015-11 | #2015-15 | #2015-16 | #2015-17
#2014-1 | #2014-2 | #2014-3 | #2014-4 | #2014-5 | #2014-6 | #2014-7 | #2014-8 | #2014-9 | #2014-10
#2013-1 | #2013-2 | #2013-3 | #2013-4 | #2013-5 | #2013-6
#2012-1 | #2012-2 | #2012-3 | #2012-4 | #2012-5 | #2012-6 | #2012-7
(The back story in case you're new to my NYNGD: For the past couple of years I've done a fun thing that most of you I think enjoyed, and I thought I would do it again this year. Every year, I am a slacker about keeping my Guitar Gallery up to date... So, as a fun holiday thing, let's launch a guitar in the Guitar Gallery each day leading up to New Years Eve! In the past I've received PM's about my collection and whether I play all of these guitars.
The same question came up during my NYNGD posts a few years ago and my answer was pretty detailed and well thought-out, so please check it out here!)(Also, in case anybody gets any funny ideas -- these guitars are not at my house. They are all in my very secure and alarmed studio facility. I usually only have two guitars floating around the house...)
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