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Any ideas? I don't like the chunky SG neck.

Sounds like surgery -with a fretboard removal, neck and body rout, plus tuner and (some) electronics swap.

You'll have the ONLY one in existence though!

Where's that "Excellent" Burns jpg jps always posts???

Sounds like surgery -with a fretboard removal, neck and body rout, plus tuner and (some) electronics swap.

There are no wires in the neck on a Robot, so I'm not sure why you'd need to remove a fretboard. Nor would you have to do any routing to the body, as I'm sure the battery, etc would fit under the pickguard.

From looking at it, the challenges I see:
Would the contacts for the tuning pegs-to-brain 'reach' on a Ric headstock, and assuming they wouldn't how to extend them.
What to do with the bridge, although you could use the gibson bridge I guess.
How to get the electronics in the tail under a Ric R-tail.
How to extend the wiring to make it fit on a Ric body. The Gibson wires don't seem to have much slack...

If you would be OK with a Ric with a stop tail it would make it easier. And uglier....

It would be cool though. Very cool!

How about just shaving the neck on the SG?

jsm610 wrote:

Sounds like surgery -with a fretboard removal, neck and body rout, plus tuner and (some) electronics swap.

There are no wires in the neck on a Robot, so I'm not sure why you'd need to remove a fretboard. Nor would you have to do any routing to the body, as I'm sure the battery, etc would fit under the pickguard.

Well, there's one set of wires right there...and if the brain is in the body, there's more, and more. Seems like the neck is the obvious place to put a channel.

jingle_jangle wrote:

jsm610 wrote:

Sounds like surgery -with a fretboard removal, neck and body rout, plus tuner and (some) electronics swap.

There are no wires in the neck on a Robot, so I'm not sure why you'd need to remove a fretboard. Nor would you have to do any routing to the body, as I'm sure the battery, etc would fit under the pickguard.

Well, there's one set of wires right there...and if the brain is in the body, there's more, and more. Seems like the neck is the obvious place to put a channel.

Yes, there's got to be something to get the power up there to run the motors. There are ways to send data/control signals over the power wires, so the minimum would likely be 2 wires run up the neck. You could play games with using strings or the truss rods as one wire and get it down to a single wire, but that could prove more problematic than it's worth...

Yes, there's got to be something to get the power up there to run the motors.

If you watch the installation videos for the boxed version its clear that there isn't any wiring in the neck. The videos show installation on a standard strat - no drilling, no routing. The power is sent via the strings of the guitar.

The are also some breakdown videos and photos that show this pretty clearly...

Well, that explains it then...

Yup. Cool, but reliable? Peter's in-store demo seems to indicate otherwise.

Sproinnnnng!!!

Yo Mints, got linky for that video?

I liked your original question, so I just read everything I could find off a google search to learn about it. Do the search and you'll find lots of hits and photos...

Here's one link:
http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2006/07/ ... -momentum/

There's no way the contact PCB from a SG would line up on a RIC...

Here's a nice 'no wires in the neck' photo:

There's no neck in the neck, either...

I know it's a mess but is that neck made of Mahogany Paul?