NGD - I AM THE LAW

[FELINEGUITARS]

NGD - and this one is for me (couldn't really be for anyone else really.)

It's been a LONG time coming as stuff for myself usually gets put on the back-burner when things are busy here at Feline.
But finally here she is


Based on the Panther superstrat design that I build, this kicked off about 12 years ago (!!)
We used a big hefty slab of mahogany that I had in store for something special.
Through my younger brother I got hooked on 2000AD comics and Judge Dredd in particular.
there have been several different artists to draw Dredd over the years
I rather liked Mike McMahon's artwork (whilst not the creator of the look he was the first regularly published artist drawing Dredd in 2000AD 's early days).
This was a particular design he did  that made it onto a t shirt that I subsequently owned
It started taking shape in my mind as to what it should become and with the help of my friend Nick Smith (airbrush artist) this is what started taking shape.

Here it is as soon as he had painted the image before we got the top coat of lacquer put on


By this time I knew I wanted to do something fun with inlay
and what is more befitting for Judge Dredd than his trusty " I AM THE LAW" catchphrase

Those that know me will know my Surname is LAW - so kind of fitting to have on my guitar.

I debated having the headstock in the shape of Dredd's gun (the lawgiver) but figured it may get cumbersome - especially as I started wanting LEDs and a laser sight on it. So I went with our usual Panther headstock and would let the inlay do the talking instead.

Here is the neck with the cut out pearl letters laid in place


I chose to bunch it up at the headstock end so i could scallop the last few frets



And once the frets went in it looked like this:


So spec wise we have the following
Sperzel tuners
Schaller Lockmeister Floyd Rose Tremolo
Mahogany body
3 piece maple neck with ebony fingerboard
Dunlop 6000 fretwire (big!)
Pickup is an old EMG58 which is a darker sounding one - a bit like a fat P90
This runs on 18v for a better headroom.
The second knob is the EMG RPC (resonant peak control) which allows you to add more of a single coil like top end to the beefy sounding humbucker

[Lew]

excellent :-) what did you think of the recent Dredd movie?

[FELINEGUITARS]

I quite enjoyed it
Lena Heady was a good villain

[Ian Price]

I quite enjoyed it
Lena Heady was a good villain

Ooh, I didn't realise she was in it. Might have to give it a go now!

Nice guitar too, not my cup of tea but I can dig it.

[Philly Q]

Excellent, I was beginning to wonder if you'd ever finish that one!

It's been "under the bed", metaphorically speaking, almost as long as one of my projects!  :P

Speaking of 2000AD, at Frightfest last weekend we were shown a preview of a feature-length 2000AD documentary which is currently in production, should be released sometime next year they reckoned.

[Telerocker]

Congrats! I can see the craftmanship, I couldn't see myself running around on stage with it.

[Mr. Air]

Super cool looking guitar. At first glance I was thinking: Hey... It has no pickups  :D

[Zaned]

I could very easily see myself on stage with a guitar like that  :lol:  I  really have a soft spot for the eighties, and guitars with graphics. Lynch, ahem..

The scallops look awesome too!

-Zaned

[gordiji]

Brilliant paint job.

[blue]

Love it :)
Coincidentally, i've been on a bit of a Dredd binge myself lately, catching up on the stories i've missed over the last years since i stopped getting 2000AD regularly

[Dmoney]

This is awesome!

[38thBeatle]

Cool stuff- a bit racy for my tastes but nonetheless, impressive.

[Philly Q]

Coincidentally, i've been on a bit of a Dredd binge myself lately, catching up on the stories i've missed over the last years since i stopped getting 2000AD regularly

I bought 2000AD when it was first published, way back in the '70s, but I remember my parents were disapproving of the violence in some of the stories, which was unusual because - although we've argued about many things over the years - to be fair to them they almost never stuck their noses into the books, comics, music or films I liked. 

Truth be told, I think I was a bit shocked by 2000AD as well, I stopped buying it after about a year.  :lol:

So I can say I was there at the start, but I wasn't around for the phenomenon it later became.

[Plenum n Heather]

I hate guitars with 80s style graphics!







... okay, I'm a liar. :)

That guitar looks AMAZING! And I'm sure it plays/sounds as good as it looks!

[littleredguitars2]

never was a dredd fan but that was well done for sure