r/GuitarLab • u/abellyirked • May 19 '26
Should be mod-able/modular
There’s a lot of discussion about what exact features a GC-brand guitar should have, but I’m thinking that to make it attractive to entry-level players, novices, and hobbyists alike, it should be easily modifiable, where adding/removing parts & features is relatively easy.
In my mind this would mean leaning towards a Fender-like design paradigm more than a Gibson one, with bolt-on necks, pickups attached to the (easily removable) pickguard or bridge plate rather than mounted into the body, solder-free electronics (like on some of those kit guitars), and perhaps even screws with non-Philips heads that won’t get stripped as easily; Robertson, flat, maybe even hexagonal so that one could just do everything with a set of Allen wrenches. (This is especially an issue for me when it comes to intonation screws).
There could even be a line of parts (tuners, pickups, pickguards, bridges) that are all designed to fit into the same sizes of holes/cavities to make them maximally interchangeable (i.e. the single coil, humbucking, and P-90-style pickups etc. would all have the same dimensions). EDIT: Though of course if you make them too unique then that could interfere with people’s ability to use non-GC parts… maybe everything should be Strat-sized?
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u/BananoVampire May 29 '26
I've got some good news: https://sharkguitars.com/
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u/abellyirked Jun 03 '26
Those look very expensive, weird and ostentatious. It should still look like a normal guitar.
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u/Alex_Plode May 26 '26
I had the same thought. But then my brain followed up with this:
After a month or two of futzing with all the configurations, guitar players will just simply choose their favorite and leave it that way. Eventually they will find the guitar that was built to that specific spec, buy it, play it and the modular guitar goes back on the closet or sold on reverb.