RKS USA Made Rare Prototype Dave Mason Design Electric Guitar

“A  f***ing impressive device, old boy. It sounds great!! Ronnie’s rocking too!!”

–Keith Richards, Guitarist for The Rolling Stones (RKS Owners: Keith & Ron Wood)

These serious guitar engineers make sustainable guitars. At first they worked with wood then carbon fiber and other extra light materials. This came from a guy who worked there. Fully tested, working good. Missing a small piece of composite in back side and has small 2” fissure there, i cant get a pic of.

Sold AS IS and guaranteed to have fully working electronics. Not perfect looking. More pics coming.

RKS Guitars utilize a “neck through body” construction, aluminum or wood ribs and molded body shells. While there have been both hollow and solid body designs in the past, RKS models are the first-ever, open-ended hollow body electric guitars and basses. The open body structure allows body shells and ribs to be changed to suit anyone’s preference for color, materials, finish, shape, and even sound. “It started as an in-house inspiration project about five years ago,” says Ravi Sawhney, CEO and President of RKS Guitars. “We spent the first year in conceptualization and visualization and then another three in modeling, prototyping, testing, and refining.”

I will consider trades for other USA made guitars.

FROM RKS:

The RKS team incubated RKS Guitars in the year 2000 as an internal project, which quickly turned into a guitar company that was building and selling guitars out of the factory RKS engineered as its own production and custom guitar demands in California. The design team, all lovers of all types of music with many guitar players themselves . This love for music and a friendship with Rock-N-Roll Hall-of-Famer Dave Mason sparked the idea of reinventing the electric guitar for the first time in decades. Through this collaboration, the team benchmarked the competitive landscape of guitars utilizing our Psycho-Aesthetics methodology to identify the critical interactions and touch-points of the guitar to identify areas that can be improved and leverage Dave’s expertise to understand what had to be the same. The results created a new guitar system platform with intellectual property around a perfected “Neck Through” core , neck and headstock, that attached to a conductive Aluminum ribbing system to enable a platform to interchange the outer shells while providing the tonal quality and range they have become known for. Additionally, the new RKS guitar was the first “sustainable” and removed the need for exotic tonewoods that are responsible for much of the deforestation.By collaborating initially with Eastman Plastics and later Weyerhauser to utilize their Tenite, a material made from the wood pulp of farmed cottonwood trees and scrap wood bi-product. RKS and Mason prototyped and tested in studios and in concert for years until they created that electric guitar tones and play that musicians would fell in love with. The RKS Guitar was featured on the cover of BusinessWeek as “the Best Design of the Year”, is played by Guitar Heroes and has empowered guitar players in a new, fresh, sustainable and great sounding way, doing something that’s never been done before!