Great playing ,rare guitar,made by Arndt Anderson ,cool guitar ,one of a kind -in great shape , sounds awesome,great sustain, has light scratches . Very cool collectible !Arndt Anderson was a master machinist who was one of the first luthiers to create an electric guitar out of metal with CNC equipment. He knew his materials – he chose magnesium as his material for the neck, as it offset the body weight (aluminum.) Thus the guitar was not neck heavy, like many of the other aluminum neck guitars (Travis Bean, Kramer) made in that time. (Magnesium is lighter than aluminum and has a better strength-to-weight ratio.) He was commissioned by Missing Persons to create their instruments. Look up their music video for Give on YouTube. LYES had one of these guitars. (Phil Collins, Alan White, Neil Peart, and Rick Allen
These guitars were made entirely by Arndt on CNC equipment, including the radius fingerboard and fret slots, which according to him were machined with a tolerance of 0.0005” (five ten-thousandths). This accuracy has paid off, as it is the most accurate guitar I own – every note hits the projected note with incredible accuracy.
Details: AZ31B Magnesium neck, AZ31B magnesium headstock and 6061 Aluminum body. The neck is solid and one-piece (no separate fingerboard) – this is also why the guitar is so accurate.
The body is machined from a 5/8” thick plate, and the back side has a large-radius fillet around the outside edge. The back cover is machined from Delrin. The neck is about 3/4" thick, and the back is a flattened C-shaped profile. Fret wire is Dunlop nickel. humbucker pickups. There is one volume and one tone control, as well as a 4-way rotary switch for different pickup configurations: Neck position, Bridge position, Both in series, Both in parallel.
