Blindworm Guitars – Elephant 6 Electric Guitar
Colorado based luthier Andrew Scott has created a one of a kind Elephant 6 guitar for The Apples in Stereo’s Robert Schneider. The guitar, a playable piece of art made out of choice Osage Orange, Walnut and Poplar woods, andis inlayed with meteorite and dinosaur bone.
Quote from Robert:
“This Blindworm guitar plays incredibly well. It is the coolest, most beautiful, psychedelic guitar I have ever played!” enthuses Schneider. “The inlaid Elephant 6 logo is made of meteorite dust, and on the headstock, the elephant’s eyes are made of dinosaur bones.” “Its smooth contours give the impression you are touching a living creature, and it plays like a dream. Thank you, Blindworm Guitars, for this precious guitar.”
Love,
Robert Schneider
“This guitar was custom designed down to the last detail,” explains Blindworm Guitar’s Andrew Scott. “This process started with an extensive amount ofresearch into the sound qualities, materials, and design that would best accommodate Robert. I acquired a model of one of Robert’s favorite guitars, an original Danelectro DC-3, and took the favored qualities of this guitar (scale,weight, proportion, tone, etc.) and combined
it with improved construction methods.”
Additional design considerations included Robert’s strumming and picking style, how guitars sit with his arm and body, and what sounds he uses.
The pickups were carefully selected to provide extensive range of new and familiar sounds for Robert. For his environmental conscience, only domestic woods were used. A hand rubbed oil finish was applied for the
same reasons, as well as to give the instrument a softer smoother feel and improved tonality.
Andrew adds, “This guitar has its own life, and has been treated so since its conception. It listened to albums and albums of The Apples in Stereo and other of Robert’s projects and videos during construction. When
this guitar finally reached his hands, it already knew him.”
“The Elephant Six Guitar”
custom made for Robert Schneider
of the Apples in Stereo
Specs:
Born March 12, 2009
Five piece neck-through construction of Walnut with Poplar stripes
Solid Poplar body
Osage Orange fingerboard, nut, truss rod cover, pickguard, (same family as ebony, but domestic and bright yellow)
Meteorite (collected in NW Africa) inlay for side fret markers, Elephant Six logo, and Blindworm Guitars logo.
Body elephant (upside down) is Indian, with pronounced trunk carved in the poplar body
Headestock elephant is African, and carved into Walnut, with Osage Orange tusks
Dinosoaur bone fragments fill in the upper elephant’s eyes and the Blindworm snake’s eyes
Custom made Walnut and Poplar knobs and switch
25″ scale, 24 jumbo frets
Cream colored Duncan P-Rails, 2 Volume, 2 Tone, and 3-way selector…Push pulls select between P-90s, rail, and humbucker wirings
Pickups set into body wood on the bass side, Osage pickguard on the trebleside and Sperzel locking tuners
Blindworm Guitars Elephant Six
Blindworm Guitars Elephant Six Headstock
Back of Elephant Six Guitar
Blindworm Guitars Elephant Six Trunk
Blindworm Guitars Elephant Six Knobs
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Thanks for showing this beautiful guitar.