More Final design --
This project is very much filed under the "someday" heading. Still, I thought I'd share it with you guys to see if it was any good.
I swear, even though Muse has nothing to do with offsets at all, they give me more inspiration for offset guitars than this entire forum put together (no offense, guys). It's a long story that I can bore you with later if you want, but the short of it is that this time around, I was looking at Matt Bellamy's guitar, which, when I knew nothing about obscure guitars, I once mistook for a Jaguar (it was a really poorly lit music video, forgive me! I was dumb!) -- and it gave me the idea for an offset Telecaster. When you get down to brass tacks, the Jaguar/Jazzmaster body, as well as some other offset guitars to greater or lesser degrees, looks like a streched/skewed Stratocaster with different plates/routing/etc. So, I thought it might be neat to do the same thing to a Telecaster. I threw in some other stuff to make it a little less Fender-y and now I think it almost looks more like a Schecter or an Ibanez guitar, if you ignore the floating tremolo. For a while I had shelved this, but today for whatever reason the design suddenly clicked for me and I pounded this out after a couple sketches.
I was thinking humbuckers and a gotoh/wilkinson bridge for a while, but today I decided P-90s and a Tune-O-Matic w/ Floating tailpiece and I think it really brought the design together. I might do some other drawings w/ different knob options, different pickups, and maybe that gotoh/wilkinson or even a hardtail (no floyd roses, though -- too utilitarian looking for my tastes -- and too Ibanez). I also thought about experimenting with the lead and rhythm circuits but didn't put it down on paper. I might try to make this more traditional looking, too. Hell, I don't know.
However, I do know that I want an offset telecaster AND that this guitar should be painted in *metallic* Fender Custom Colors -- shoreline gold, sherwood green, ice blue, inca silver, stuff like that.
And if it looks too much like this -- http://www.musewiki.org/images/thumb/18 ... Manson.jpg -- let me know so I can change it.
