This Guitar was custom made for Mark Screeton and just finished last week. He came to collect it and brought the most amazing rig into the workshop to test it out. I did shoot a little video of the guitar in action which still needs a little editing but I will publish it here when it is ready – until then here are some photo’s of the finished instrument.
Update!
Here is the video of the guitar in action as promised!
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- Is is a bird? Is it a plane?
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- Mark Screeton’s 2nd Custom
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- Quilted maple cap
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- Alder body wings
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- Thru neck construction
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- Headstock matches the cap
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- Tronical tuners
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- The controls
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- H/S/H pickup configuration
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- two output jack sockets
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- Mark Screeton
Its an electric Guitar…
The guitar has 3 ‘normal’ magnetic pickups in H/S/H configuration with a 5-way selector switch, Rothwell ACT tone circuit and master volume.
Its an acoustic guitar…
There are six piezo pickups (one for each string) built into the bridge, which do a pretty amazing job of simulating an acoustic guitar. We are using the Ghost system with acoustiphonic preamp with the additional volume control for the acoustic sound which has a push/pull built in to activate a ‘dark’ tone.
Its a MIDI guitar…
In addition to this there is another circuit called the ‘hexaphonic’ system which enables the guitar to become a MIDI controller. There is an a volume for the MIDI and two mini switches allow Mark to flick up and down through the different sounds on his pedal board and select either piezo, MIDI, or both outputs through the MIDI jack socket. Got all that? Good…
Its a self tuning guitar – the tuners…It tunes itself for god’s sake!
Furnished with ‘Tronical’ tuners…there is one thing this guitar cannot do and that is play itself…but I think that is probably just as well
Enough…
Amazed? Don’t be…it’s just another day in the Bailey workshop turning your dreams into reality…ho hum. I think I might have the best job in the world!