Bighorn

From the California mountains to Ottawa, and back again: Bighorn.

Made for the 2023 NAMM show, Bighorn is a design departure from the rest of my live-edge series. Instead of a highly asymmetrical upright ergonomic design, it has a more typical electric-guitar shaped body, with two horns on either side of the neck.

Made from a California redwood burl reclaimed from an old logging site, the body is slim and refreshingly lightweight. It also has the unique and wonderful resonance that redwood is so often known for. And that neck includes an incredible innovation that I have come up with: it is a solid, one-piece chunk of curly hard maple, but reinforced with a massive carbon fibre tube but entirely without seams or glue joints. The resulting neck is stiff and strong and should be stable under almost any conditions.

My wrap-lock tuner hardware is mounted in a compact block separately for the bridge for optimum vibration transfer. both of those, and the knobs and even the strap buttons, are 3d printed in a stainless-steel/bronze amalgam with a lovely warm nickel finish. Finally, the pickups are my go-to for lightweight performance: A lace Alumitone single-coil in the neck, and humbucker-size in the bridge position.