Shadoweclipse13 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 01, 2023 7:46 am
It's too bad that that plan died, but both sound amazing! What would be cool, if I already had the skills to do so, would be a neck-through V, with a raised middle like a Firebird, and 2 halves of a pickguard on either side of it.
Yeah, that's exactly what I was imagining, neck-through with the thinner wings, except I was thinking of just doing a treble-side guard like a Firebird. I was gonna do the carved headstock with the Steinberger tuners, binding and trapezoid blocks like a proper FB too.
I really only knew of one luthier who would be able to do all that for a reasonable price, but I think he just got overwhelmed with orders. Every time I'd contact him, he'd basically say, "Oh, I'm so sorry, I must have lost track of your last e-mail!" And we'd get a little farther into planning it, but then a month or two would go by with no response until I bugged him again, and he'd apologize again, and then forget to answer for another two months.
So, I took that as a sign that I should abandon the project, especially since I found some really nice Vs through local trades and deals as the glacially-paced e-mails went back and forth.
If you want to take up the mantle and find someone to build you a Firebird-V hybrid, I'd love to see it when it's done! It would be such a fun guitar and would sound amazing for sure.
I'm wondering if the idea is just cursed or something, because I gave up on the idea back in October and ordered those pickups for my sunburst V, and they have yet to arrive. So despite my best efforts, I still don't have my Firebird-sounding V. I just sent Tim a message to check in and see what's up. If I can't get my hands on those pickups, I might just go the DIY route and screw some Firebird pickup rings onto the guard, I checked and they'd cover the existing routs. Then I can stick any old FB pickups in there instead of getting specialty ones made.
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