Drawing inspiration from the legendary offset guitars of the past (the Fender Jaguar and Jazzmaster, and vintage Tiesco guitars to name a few), this Bridge Builder Guitars Hornet seeks to take the offset guitar into the world of 21st century exquisite custom guitars. Oh, and it's made by Neurotic Guitar Dorks in Ohio. 

This 6-string guitar features a Flamed walnut top and back with a high gloss finish. The body core is Spanish Cedar with maple accent veneers on both the front and back. The 9-piece Wenge, purple heart and maple neck has a 25.5” scale, sports a birdseye maple fretboard with Jescar Evo frets and features Flamed walnut caps on the front and back of the headstock, as well as a maple cap on the heel, and is finished with our Bridge Builder Super Silk neck treatment (there is no better feeling neck finish in existence!). It's easy to see where your fingers need to be on a dark stage with our reflective and glow-in-the-dark Bridge Builder Bright-Glo side dots and flamed walnut block inlays on the fretboard face. The headstock face and back sport face caps cut from the same piece of flamed walnut as the top and back of the guitar, and maple accent pinstripes. The nut is made from Graphtech black Tusq that pairs well with the Graphtech saddles on the Schaller Hannes bridge. Gemini Mercury One humbuckers produce an incredibly wide range of tones utilizing Gemini's "dualbucker" option. Each pickup has its own "voice switch" that chooses between standard humbucker and a single-coil mode that adds about 1500 extra pickup winds to the single coil. This gives it a tone more like a P90 than a Fender-style single coil and reduced volume drop when in single coil mode. The output is via a Switchraft switchboard-style output jack designed to survive 100,000 in/out cycles. This guitar sounds as good as it looks, and with flawlessly executed fretwork and impossibly low action it plays even better. All this, and the guitar weighs in at a 6 lbs. 9.4 oz

The specs:

Model: Hornet

Weight: 6lbs. 9.4oz

Finish: High gloss polyester (body and headstock), Bridge Builder Super Silk (neck)

Top: Flamed Walnut

Back: Flamed Walnut

Core: Spanish Cedar

Accent Layer: Maple (front and back)

Neck Joint: Bolt-on

Neck Material: 9-piece construction Wenge/purple heart /maple stringers with maple and wenge accents, inlaid titanium reinforcment bars with extensions into the headstock, 10 degree tilt headstock

Frets: 22 Jescar Evo 47 x 104

Fingerboard: Birdseye maple

Face inlay: Flamed walnut blocks

Side inlay: Bridge Builder Bright-glo Glow gold with green glow-in-the-dark centers

Fingerboard Radius: compound 9.5”-16”

Scale Length: 25.5”

Bridge: Schaller Hannes

Tuners: Hipshot Griplock

Bridge Pickup: Gemini Mercury 1 w/dual-bucker option

Neck Pickup: Gemini Mercury 1 w/dual-bucker option

Nut: Graphtech 42mm width

Strings: D’Addario XS .010”-.046”

Additional features: Wiring- Humbucker and high-output single coil voicings for each pickup, gold hardware, Inlaid maple Bridge Builder logo, flame walnut back headstock cap, maple heel cap, carbon fiber reinforced back plate, Hardshell case

Other Features and details:

Maple Bridge Builder logo inlay

Custom wiring that allows for tons of tone variations with minimal controls

Continuous wood control cover plate, reinforced with carbon fiber to reduce warping

Threaded machined inserts in neck, asymmetrically positioned steel neck mounting bolts assure a rock solid neck joint

Switchcraft switchboard style box jack (originally designed for use in vintage phone switchboards)

UV flashlight included for charging glow in the dark side dots

hardshell case included

*international shipping is available, please contact me for more info

Bridge Builder guitars are handcrafted in Ohio by J. Kennedy Guitar Repair’s resident in-house guitar dork, luthier Justin Kennedy. All instruments are built by hand, one at time. For nearly a decade Justin has worked on instruments for Walk the Moon, Falling in Reverse, Fleet Foxes, Freekbass, Red Wanting Blue, Taproot, Afroman, Smile Empty Soul, Public, The Griswalds, The Vines, members of Bootsy Collins' Rubber Band, members of Megan Trainor's band, and thousands for customers that stretch from California to Virginia and everywhere in between. Justin is a Fender Gold and Taylor Silver certified technician, and has operated as Walk the Moon's touring guitar tech, and has also guitar tech'd for Jackson Browne, Tal Winkenfeld, and The National.