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So what makes a Guitar for Jazz music Traditionally it would be a Semi Acoustic deep bodied guitar Now when it comes to the scale and the number of frets there are a lot of different views The older guitars tend to have less frets than the more modern Pickups tend to be mini humbucker in the neck position Scale lengths varies as much as style but 25.5" tends to be the modern norm Woods are important to the real Jazz players the more select and older the better (its all about bass tone (not Bass like bass guitar but bass as something that builds tone with colour) so a fairly simple format ???????????? So why did jazz guitars not evolve in the same way as most electric guitars That was the question that got me thinking about how to evolve a Jazz guitar yet keep that good jazz look. I went right back to the drawing board and decided on a look first (I liked a guitar that I had seen in the 1960's so I decided to make mine as a simple facsimile. I did not know the brand of guitar when I made mine, I just knew approximately what it looked like. So first to the woodpile I used 30 year dry aged European Maple, 80 year old Honduras Mahogany (it had been an antique Dining Table the wood was probably older than 80 years but I traced the table back 80 years, 35 year old dry aged Sitka Spruce and then some 100+ year old Ebony (bought from Jim Burns in the 1980's) So now I had my wood and the design in mind. I wanted a BIG Deep bodied jazz box I made the top and back by laminating slabs of wood together in a solid sandwich The back is made from Maple, Mahogany, Maple. The top is made from Spuce, Mahogany, Spruce. These slabs were then carved back to from my arch top and back revealing a red stripe of Mahogany the follows the line of the guitar. The sides are made from the same maple as the back. The neck is formed by Maple, Mahogany and Maple. The neck has a full Volute at the headstock which is faced with Ebony. all the inlay to the headstock and neck is Mother of pearl. the binding is Mahogany, Maple, Ebony, Maple, Ebony. This is used on the Headstock, Neck and the body. Now for anther change in the evolution 24 frets with full access from the sing Cutaway. Next change I decided to get away from the 15" 16" and 17" bodies and went for an 18" wide guitar like the 1931 George Abbott Musicmaster that I own. 7" deep at the deepest part made this a Jumbo Semi. Now there are some things that really should not be changed like the SOUND of a Jazz Box (at least when it comes to the Humbucker) I opted for a Benedetto S6 floating Humbucker attacked to my Flamed Maple Pickguard. The tuners I used were Gold and Black Planet Wave locking and self trimming (no more strings in your eyeball!!!) then I wanted MORE (MORE BOY did you say MORE??!!!!) Yep I wanted MORE so I wanted the acoustic sound as well as the electric and I wanted to be able to mix them in a stereo output I also wanted the guitar to be able to access MIDI, the only trouble is laggggggggg I hated the lag that you got with the Roland HEX pickup, and three separate pickup systems would make for an ugly guitar. Also nobody made a Bridge system that had individual Piezo for a jazz guitar (at least not a proper Wooden Floating Bridge with wooden saddles. So I had to MAKE MY OWN. I embedded each pickup under the saddles which were then bonded back onto the floating adjustable bridge. So I ended up with a Jazz box that still looked like a jazz box but that had a midi system that works from Micro Vibration rather than a hex pickup so nothing to soil the look. the acoustic side I added a "Dark Sound" board which is switchable between Natural and Dark . Midi even though most midi is 7 pin din Roland footboards and Midi amps use a 13 pin din So we wired a 13 in Roland out as well as the Stereo/Mono Jack. The guitar can now be used with any of the pickups individually or a mix of any and all. Custom Made Solid Brass Output Plate on the side bottom bout. On the upper top bout there is likewise a solid brass plate that carries all the controls. Turned Rosewood tone and volume controls and Mix cont

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