The Pit Bull Guitars "Community Kit"

[adam]

Alright Forum folk, we've got a bit of a project for anyone who wants to be involved...

You know the PBG-1 and PBG-2 kits; they were designed by other customers of our supplier. We would like to have our own Pit Bull Guitars Custom Guitar Kit, designed by you good people, that we stock in quantity and sell at a reasonable price.

So, what does this guitar look like? Strat, LP, Tele, original design?

Solid body or hollow body?

What wood for the body and the neck? Basswood, Alder, Mahogany, Maple, Paulownia, etc? What about the fretboard? Maple, rosewood or ebony?

Does it have a figured cap? Spalted, flame or other?

What pick ups does it have? Single coil? Humbuckers? P-90s? Combination?

What's the scale length? What colour hardware? What style bridge, machine heads, etc? Scratchplate or no scratchplate?

Locking tremolo, Bibsgy or hardtail?

We can do whatever you agree on.

The only condition is that it's not overly specialised. We're not asking for your dream guitar. What we want is something you think will be representative of our Community and guitar players will go, "Wow, what a cool guitar. I must have one!".

So, who wants to start the ball rolling...

[Gavin1393]

Tele
Solid body or hollow body?
Alder or Mahogany
Maple, rosewood or ebony fretboard
spalted or Flame Cap
P-90s pickups or humbuckers with 4 conductor wires!!!!! Or even TV Jones!!
What's the scale length?
What colour hardware? GOLD BLING!!
Bigsby or locking trem
No f$@king scratchplate....ok, some might like one....chuck one in?

[adam]

Thanks Gav, nothing but "yes" from me. Let's see what the others think and what else comes up..

There's a lot of swearing and shouting in your post Gav, I take it you're not a morning person?

[Gavin1393]

Nah! Morning are awesome. I simply don't have much time for Pickguards! Although the gold bling tele one is pretty decent here, but not decent enough that DB would ever attach it!

[GlennGP]

As much as I'd like to agree that another Tele variant would be the go, the range already has a bunch. Now, that may change once the range rationalisation occurs, at which point a good case could be made for a community-specified version.

I have found it interesting that the range of Strats is pretty much limited to a righty and a lefty. Now, I'm not much of a strat guy (I have an inbuilt resistance to anything "popular"), but I reckon a community-specced Strat could actually pick up some buyers.

What would I want in such a thing?
- make it a nice piece of wood (not basswood) so that those that want to stain can, and those that want to wrap it in lacquer can too.
- chrome hardware as standard - if you want something else you're usually willing to buy it yourself
- it might be cool to include a series/phase switching set up (like this: http://www.guitarfetish.com/BHM-Styl...rd_p_1181.html) - kind of a semi-red special!
- hard-tail bridge
- rosewood or ebony fretboard

Anyway, that's a few ideas.

[keloooe]

Hmmm... Either a Strat or LP...

[adam]

Thanks Glenn, a Strat style kit, with our custom specs, would be a good way to go.

As far as the wood choices go, they offer:

Body:
Basswood
Mahogany
Alder (but remember the problems we had with worm holes)
Ash (I can ask where the ash is sourced from)
Paulownia

Neck:
Maple
Mahogany

Fretboard:
Maple
Rosewood
Ebony

I think a combination of pups is the way to go; perhaps two single coils with a humbucker in the bridge position.

I think a white pearloid pickguard is a must.

[keloooe]

Mahogany Strat
Neck: Mahogany or Maple
Electronics: 2 P-90's with Humbucker in the bridge position
Hard tail bridge
Pearloid pickguard
Ebony fretboard

[Bass Guy]

Basswood Strat with Chambered body
Spalt/Flame maple top
Neck: Maple
Electronics: HSH with 5-way switch
Bigsby tremolo- has a Strat ever had a Bigsby before?
Pearloid pickguard
Rosewood fretboard

[robin]

Probably not the right person to offer an opinion. As a bass player I have only owned one 6 string guitar and have had it for over 20 years, so not sure what current trends are. Didn't even know what a P-90 was until just now when I googled it.

Body Shape:
Fender Strat - not because I like them (because I don't) but they are the most copied guitar shape in history.

Body wood:
A good tone wood with nice figure - can be wudtoned, stained or painted depending on preference.

Neck:
Probably Maple - can be stained darker if preferred, hard too go the other way

Fretboard:
Rosewood/Ebony - Maple is nice, but needs more care and maintenance.

Pick-ups:
2 x standard singles
1 x double - if a P-90 fits the same pup cavity as a humbucker, make it an option.

Bridge:
Hardtail - not totally convinced with cheap tremolos.

Hardware:
I know this will be a financial burden on Adam, but just keep it basic (cheap), but stock up-grades for those who want to option up.

So basically a Strat clone, with the ability to option up the hardware.

Just my 2c worth.

rob