An experimental guitar design reducing every component in the body to the essential: single dots for each pickup, string saddle, and control.

This guitar was built for my son's second birthday, giving me the freedom to play fast and loose.  The design was hand sketched, hand routed, and hand formed with a die-grinder.  Materials were scrap mahogany + black walnut, parts pulled from a random box-o-stuff.

The body is char-burst by carefully scorching the edges with a propane torch, sanding off any pure carbon, and finishing the carbonized wood.

Chimey single coils with extended poles push through the surface. Action is adjusted with set screws under each press-fit saddle piece.

The ultra-smooth body is comfortable and imminently playable.  Tone is a bit rolled off with the deep-set pickups, but it also mellows the quack.  Does it make sense to build this for a toddler?  No, but it was a fun prototype and I get to play it too.  Maybe I'll make one for myself...