Ooh - long time ago
We may have been trying to keep the neck pickup from sounding too woolly, and/or keep as much wood glued into the body as possible to stiffen the neck joint but without having a long heel area coming out of the body like PRS do these days.
Sounded wicked as I recall anyway
I like these features, I wouldn't mind the heel on my McCarty being a little smaller. I'm used to it however.
This guitar is sort of like the McCarty trem (which the new David Grissom PRS essentially is).
Hopefully someone from this forum grabs the guitar, it looks (and most probably sounds too) killer!
-Zaned