Brief history:
A bandmate and I have been sort of hobby building ourselves instruments for fun for some years. My main live instrument became a Jagstang-Done-Right build i did for myself, it looks like so:
Body by Cooterfinger
24" scale All Parts neck
Novak JM-HC pickup
Mastery bridge (and eventually trem)
blah blah blah
Some years later, after everyone in our band is using instruments my band mate has built, and hes been developing and designing different models, we start working on a guitar together for me. Heres the initial illustrator or whatever he uses file, two different ideas:
and some color mockups i did:
Rosewood fretboard, 24" scale (a first for him,) maple neck, alder body, McNelly gold foil pickups (to go after a different sound from my green build,) mastery hardware, 9.5" radius neck with a fuller C profile, similar to a 65 Jag. The only change we made was the orientation of the switch plate to avoid moving any switches while playing.
Behold the first Cave and Canary Hircum Rex:
This is the most accurate photo of the color, someone mentioned to me its not unlike pelham blue, and i suppose thats true. This is before our last tour started, so a pretty clean, shiny, polished instrument. Dont worry, this thread doesnt end up with me dragging it behind the trailer or anything.
The switching is sort of something we did specifically for me and my needs, but i think its pretty useful. Those are two three-way mustang style switches. The one closer to the edge of the body is a normal pickup selector switch: bridge, both, and neck pickups respectively. The switch thats further in, from bridge to neck position, is: on, off, EDIT: hi cut, not pass. Stupid brain.) I do a lot of textural work, as well as spend a fair amount of time trying to replicate things like violas and clarinets and things, and i've just found that to be a useful tool for that. We spent some time dialing the right amount of roll off, and it definitely was a feature that got use on a nightly basis.
After roughly 7 weeks of shows, with this as my main, this is how she sits. I've had to loc-tite the mastery screws, which for whatever reason i always have to do. the pickups have sort of oxidized or corroded a bit with sweat and what not, which is pretty much my only complaint. The pickups sound very warm, but very very clear. I think when we build me another i'll use the pickup from my green guitar. I sure do love my Novak pickups.
The blue came out a little more saturated in the photos than it actually is, but its still a pretty lovely color. The headstock logo is inlayed with rosewood, and conversely the fret markers are inlayed maple.
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