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The Tesla
is a 7-string guitar with a low B-string. The strings are
clamped behind the nut and tuned with body-mounted tuners.
No double-ball strings are necessary. The string-spacing at
the bridge amounts to 10,5 mm, just like a Strat. The neck
is 48 mm wide at the nut. The Tesla has a 25.5 inch (650 mm)
scale-length. The neck is
made out of bird's eye maple. It connects with the body at
the 8th fret. As a result of the liberally short
neck-length, the tone is extremely fat and forceful in the
bass frequencies. On the back side of the body a depression
is carved out for the left hand thumb, making the Tesla very
comfortable to play. The Tesla
is equipped with two hand-wound pickups. In the bridge
position a humbucker with strong mids and harmonic
overtones, in the neck position a divided singlecoil, which
is hum-cancelling as well. It has a noticeable clearity in
the overtones for those typical Hendrix tones. Three
push-buttons are situated between the pickups, which control
the base sounds. One push-button controls feedback, the
other 60-cycle hum, and the third interupts the tone. See:
Concept
The guitar
is also available in a six string version. The front
side of the guitar is finished in a glow-in-the-dark
luminescent finish! . The color absorbs the stage-light
energy and, when in darkness, emits it in the form of a
green light. Naturally the finish is not radioactive.
Do you
remember your first Telecaster? In the early days of
electric guitar construction, one not only had to struggle
with the guitar, but also with the unwanted background
noises that guitars in those days produced. For example,
pickup feedback, as a result of pickups not yet being
wax-potted. Or loud 60-cycle hum, because a solder joint had
become loose. Sometimes the guitar signal would be
interrupted when one touched a random knob.
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The tesla comes with a hand-sown gig-bag made of nubuk
leather. It is heavily-padded and has a large outside
pocket.
Meanwhile, these effects have disappeared as a result of
technical improvements, although they have become, along
with music history, archetypes of guitar sounds. They are
comparable with sounds, like for example, the scratching of
records or the skipping of CD's, which have also become
tonal icons and are nowadays often referred to.
With the Tesla I have designed a guitar that, along with
modern guitar sounds, also has these primordial sounds at
its disposal. Contact points and push-buttons are situated
all over the body, which, when pressed, activate these
sounds.
