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Another harebrained Maxaxe story 8O
This strange axe came about when I recently decided to learn the Minor pentatonic scales in its 5 patterns, with the blue notes and additional notes from the Major penta.
I was having trouble getting all this down (old dog syndrome) so I thought: what if I had a fretboard clearly marked for the whole thing in the key of A?
So I decided to sacrifice my old & already butchered Maton Apollo 505 and create a sort of learning tool. Then I dreamt up the name "Scaley Maton" and off I went . . .
Let's start from the beginning - original guitar (pic 1) first teardown many years ago transmogrified the semi into a solid body in candy apple red (no pics) second was another reshape and we had a blue meanie (pic 2) third phase was yet another reshape with a satin black finish (pic 3)
Continued . . . .
http://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-con...Apollo-505.jpg
http://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-con...pollo-Blue.jpg
http://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-con...ollo-Black.JPG
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Final phase: Set in the red fret dots for the Minor notes, grey for Majors and green for the Blue notes (yes, I didn't ave any blue dots) these I cut from 6mm dia. plastic sprue material I scored. I also redid the side dots with oversized 4mm white dots for better visibility.
Given its new name, I reckoned it begged a "scaley" paint job so I utilised some expanded paper packing material as stencilling. Airbrushed on successive layers of red & green over existing black and voila!
A reasonably scaley effect was achieved (see pics)
Now I just need to find the time & inclination to learn this pentatonic shit.
http://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-con...Scaley-001.JPG
http://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-con...Scaley-007.JPG
http://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-con...Scaley-009.JPG
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Very cool.
What about the other keys though? :P looks like you'll need a few more kits haha.
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You never cease to amaze me with your creativity, Max. Love it.
Wish I had access to the time, resources and creative mind that you do. :P
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Max the mad scientist. You legend
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wow Max, this is so cool mate. It's great to have a builder in the forum that changes an axe so radically, love it !
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Well done Max, anything to make scales easier has to be good. I love how you've carried the scale theme through into the paint job too, really clever:-)
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Not as versatile as a Fretlight guitar, but a lot cheaper (and not so naff).
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In some of the circles I roll, doing this to a Maton is tantamount to heresy. Screw those circles.
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good to see you kept the guitar essentially the same by leaving all 6 strings on it...
very cool learning tool
