World debut: a new patentable electric guitar: Nov.24, 2008.

[John Watt]

This thread is in reference to a picture posted in Gallery personal photos with username John Watt.
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If the halo was pale purple it would be a tribute to Jimi Hendrix, who never owned a left-handed Fender Stratocaster. Actually, neither do I. I have to make up a name. I've been redefining my guitar and posting here this summer, keeping my musical wits about me. So it is with great excitement that I offer the international debut of this new musical invention.

Six piece solid wood construction. Local Port Colborne medium maple with Louisianna poplar. New resonance, new harmonics, new grounding with unexpected greater fret feel. Half an inch wider than a full scale Fender, almost twice as deep. A semi-solid-body. Joe Ferlinetto of Ring Music in Toronto built the '64 Strat neck copy in '74, and international luthier Paul Saunders replaced the rosewood fretboard with a thicker two octave, slanted lefty cut ebony fingerboard. Abalone markers and frets by Fred Gabrsek. '74 DiMarzio Gibson '58 P.A.F. Humbucker replica at the neck with two '74 Fat Strats: DiMarzio enhanced volume Strat copies to blend with Humbucker output. Fender Stratocaster left-hand tremolo unit.

The Martin Company guitar neck rod. Graphtech nut, string retainers and six individual two way adjustable bridges. 1970 Schaller tuners: opening two boxes of Gibson style large pots to get six same side with knobs from a box of smaller Fender style. Bill Nitransky, owner of Central Music, contribution. ISHOT metallic bronze faux purfling with two-tone tan sides, Minwax fast-drying hand brushed Polyurethane satin topcoat. 1970 P.A.F. Straplocks. Nylon car seatbelt strap. Switchcraft 500k volume pot. Gibson S.G. toggle switch. Souvenir Fender knob. Medium action with Ernie Ball "Not so Slinky" nickel round-wound strings. Four inch modified stainless steel neck screws. Interior completely lined with totally grounded aluminum. Wired with innovative design after consultations with Steve Bleuchner of DiMarzio, Len Jeffries of E.M.I. and Bill Nitransky, with innovative pickup placement. Belden cord with interior hot and ground with exterior mesh grounded to ground on one input jack.

Pics by David Torbett: nocodephotos@gmail.com: liverockpics@gmail.com.

Offering this design only makes me more thankful for the very interesting fretting of font I feel for this symphonic domain.
Thank you for your conducive conductivity, Mr. Frederik Magle, with regards for the noble Corno Dolce.
On my mark, let the riffs begin!

[Corno Dolce]

Oh please Mr. Watt - you give me too much credit and honor - I am way too simple and humble a man to deserve such honorific treatment.

Respectfully,

CD

[methodistgirl]

I'm holding the guitar in one picture and the other is the guitar I wished
I did have.
judy tooley

[John Watt]

You know yourself, Corno Dolce, how I have transpired to invigorate you as much as you challenge me, only to call you noble. And what you see as simple and humble for you is the secret of creativity for me. There's no computer science or hightech composites in my invention. It's a stupid and retro design for local manufacture that increases the vibration envelope for the strings. I want to get away from endless effects, not being there all the way anyway. It might sound good offstage, changing to trumpet, cascading french horns, but playing loud hearing just those synthesized sounds is nerve-wracking after a while and you are locked into programming. That's why getting away from bands after good runs worked for me. And being in dance bands playing songs gets you bored with your playing too. It means so much to me I spent all summer with my guitar in pieces, trying to make a more expressive voice to be one musically. I want to blend with other instruments, having natural tonal range, harmonizing with saxes and trumpets and flutes, not just enveloping a room myself.

I must be doing well. George Gruhn, one of if not the leading expert on guitars, not a manufacturer, gruhn.com, someone who's magazine columns I always enjoyed and my favorite guitar domain, got back to me when I described my ideas with my first picture. When I sent him three more he replied within ten minutes saying he can't imagine the patentable aspect. I want him to understand. It would be amazing if he started referring guitaristas he knew into trying and building and manufacturing my design. I said I'm giving it away, except for Canadian protection. Then I'll be able to buy a back-up and get a beater for outside. Gulls have hit my guitar before. And this is new manufacturing with local woods and local wood working, enabling a new local economy exempt from NAFTA. Priceless! Losing the robotic process and finding financial parity with hand labour is what mankind needs.

I'm fifty-seven and I'm still irate about Fender lackalefty. Jimi Hendrix never had one. The tremolo arm got in his way. I can hold my hand on the bridge to mute all the strings and still hold the arm between fingers, if I want. It's wonderful for me to be first and left-handed.

And I see a face peeking out from a reply. And I see a dream guitar of wild is it swamp grain, but it still looks like it's cut from a plank. Stay real with your acoustic, I'm trying to get there. Electric venues are going to become more expensive and scarce for musical entertainers. What's hot now, beyond karaoke and screens and cellphones? A big screen for projection with prompters for dialogue, picking scenes from Hollywood movies and acting along onstage. When consumers can't afford online expense, after computer financials crash, those joyful times of making music will be heard inhouse again. I'm down to plug in and play. Next, just holding and playing.

Let me share my global strategy, thinking global since Marshall McCluhan in Toronto first saying and writing "Global Village" in the 60's. Being of Watt and Buchanan descent, I've posted on Gumtree.com, Edinburgh, signifigant to me, wanting to share my invention culturally. Three months and only five scoffing at best replies, even being accused of mangled syntax. I got a free link with personal email from staff to keep renewing on top, with many ads about inventions at the bottom of my post. I feel pro! I exchanged four email with Scott Marceau of Fender, writing the letter I was asked to, no mail reply just consumer relationed, however professionally. My post in their forum about it was deleted. Now I have contacted The Jimi Hendrix Estate, offering to extend their innovative legacy by promoting my freely offered design, two days ago. No reply yet. Seeing my thread title font enhanced after I posted here is another good sign.

But that's okay, floating this at them another day, because I don't really have to stop, I can just keep picking to play, waiting for the sound to get everyone grooving my way, strung bass on the bottom, highs on top, not some standardization from those using left over military hardware idolizing product. This has really got me riffing! Not as visual as Methodist Girl. I didn't know you could post pictures with these replies.

[Corno Dolce]

Aloha Mr. Watt,

Invigorate little old *moi*?

How truly kind of you.


Rant *ON* ---

That which truly invigorates me is not of this world. When I mention it people get angry with me simply because it cannot be comprehended or qualified by science or inductive/deductive reasoning. Worse yet, I'm labeled as a kook, a throwback to the Middle Ages, one who has drank way too much spiked *Kool-Aid*

But you know what? I don't care what epithet or charge is leveled against me - WYSIWYG!!!!!!! Despite the inertia against me I still love and care for people and I'll still feed the homeless/houseless/chronically unemployed despite my voting Independent. Neither the Demonicrats nor the Republicrats are going to co-opt me in any which way, shape or form.

Rant *OFF* ---

Humbly,

CD

[John Watt]

I've got a new domain happening about my guitar, and hope anyone interested can have a look and listen.
I've been posting at Harmony Central, more rock guitar, and saw Judy Tooley having something to say.
Nice to see you there! I hope you noticed I'm pushing magle.dk there too.
as always, John Watt www.johnwatt.ca

[John Watt]

Good day! I'm adding this to my thread here because I lost control of myself.
I've been online and emailing from this residence but only did the build thing
and activated the domain three weeks ago.
When I came here to post about it I started a new thread, saying template,
forgetting about this one.
So if you are interested in my semi-solid-body, please visit this new thread.
That's the one I'll be looking at first and adding narrative.
as always, John Watt
My favorite line of last year, and holding this year, came from Corno Dolce,
about "the inertia against me".
The last I heard he was cutting back to due expected quadruplet childbirth.
I hope he and his family enjoy the best of health and expectant sonics.