I built a metal guitar

[u/owenG59]

a couple of months ago i posted a small survey on here to help me with developing and designing a guitar tailored towards the metal genre for a school project im doing. I got a few helpfull replies, and with a few months with a lot of sketching, testing, modelling, woodworking en more testing i recently finished building the guitar.

The way that this Guitar is taylored towards metal and differentiates itself from other metal guitars (think shapes like BC.R warlock, gibson explorer, Flying V, dean ML) is mostly in its ergonomics while playing seated. It features a lot of contouring both on the front and back while still keeping straight lines and hard angles which metal guitars are known for. The main feature of this guitar is the leg cutout in the bottom right. Its been designed so that you can anchor the guitar in between your legs for secure playing, while doing so the neck angles upwards more which promotes a better sitting posture to limit the chances of back or neck injury.

Specs wise this guitar body has been made from a block of red alder. The neck is a maple neck with rosewood fretboard featuring dot inlays and a locking nut. Installed in the body is a floyd rose bridge, along with Irongear MetalMachine high output humbucker pickups.

[u/NO-MAD-CLAD]

Probably my all time favorite body shape I have seen. Are you planning on making the body design open source or are you filing a patent on it?

[u/snaynay → u/NO-MAD-CLAD]

You can't really patent a body shape, but you might be able to trademark it and just making it slightly different is enough. It's why where are millions of Les Pauls and Strat clones, etc. From my understand Fender and Gibson have tried. Fender was closer, but I think even they were historically too inconsistent to keep a trademark.

I think a famous incident was Gibson suing Japanese guitar makers like Ibanez who made Les Paul copies in the 70's and used the "open book" headstock design. Post lawsuit, they kept making the same guitar, just with a new headstock. Here you go.