You Guys Want to See Some Wild Guitars

[shredmonster]

Some different construction concepts on these babies....

http://www.tkinstruments.com/gallery.htm

[rjohnstone]

That neck heel looks like it would be real comfy.
Not sure I'm sold on those MASSIVE frets they use on some of them.
Scalloped feel without the scallops I guess.

[j2379]

i like the woods & look but too odd for me, fret rods? look how the headstocks are different wood than the neck on some of them.....just asking to be cracked off.

[Firebird V]

Wow check out the compound scale fretboard. that loos so odd with the frets on angles but it is a really cool idea!

[mrrs]

They have some really great innovations to design flaws we're all used to.

The neck/body heel looks great for upper access.

I like the sound of those frets too.

I don't know about a flat fretboard radius though.

[Coyote]

The one's were the frets on an angle look twisted?
and did any one see that 9 string how would you play it?

[Spivonious]

His reasoning for direct-mounting the pickups doesn't make any sense.

have found that the best tonal option for mounting pickups, is to fasten the pickups directly to the wood in the pickup cavity, so that the bottom of the pickup makes tight contact with the body wood.

This allows the pickup receive the tone of the instruments resonating body wood.
You could almost compare the tone of wood mounted pickups, verses plastic bezel mounted pickups, in the same way you would compare a tube amp, to a solid state amp.
Basically, if the base of the pickup is mounted to the body wood of the instrument, then the pickup can produce the more organic, warm, alive tone of the instruments wood.

The pickup doesn't pickup wood vibrations; it's all in the string movement.

[RobRR]

His reasoning for direct-mounting the pickups doesn't make any sense.



The pickup doesn't pickup wood vibrations; it's all in the string movement.

Thats not entirely true.

[nor]

The vibration of the wood vibrates the pickups altering/alternating their proximity to the strings.

[Newc]

The vibration of the wood vibrates the pickups altering/alternating their proximity to the strings.

It cannot move the pickups enough to alter the magnetic field.

Soundwaves coming from the body disrupt the magnetic field. Both are invisible lines of force, and wherever line of force intersect, the weaker lines give way to the stronger ones. This is why pickups sound like crap in one guitar but great in another.

It's also why deadening the vibrational properties of a guitar will change its amplified tone.

[fuel0707]

The fanned-fret concept is interesting but not new. Ralph Novak made a name for himself with that and Rickenbacker had that style of slanted frets on some of their guitars. (In one of Paul Gilbert's videos, he plays one and notes Rickenbacker's claim that the slanted frets allow you to play "15% faster).

I'd be interested to try one of TK's instruments. Looks-wise, though, they remind me a little too much of a '70's hippie/granola thing, sort of like some Alembics or Moonstones.

[shredmonster]

The biggest thing for me would be the FLAT fretboard.

I like combination radius. I had a 15" all the way up the neck and it just did not feel comfortable to me. Even though the strings bended great.

[RR05xx]

Im surprised no one else said it, but looks like stabbed poo to me.