Zond
Zond was an experiment, an attempt to create a form that is both super-simple, but also ergonomic and comfortable. Inspired by Brutalist architecture, Zond is like an offset Bo Diddley, using sections of pure circles rather than straight lines.
Zond 002:
Stickerbomb over fully contoured Ash body
GFS XFS 25.5” Maple neck, 9.5”R Pau Ferro fretboard, 21 medium-jumbo frets
Bootstrap Squeaky Clean neck/P90 Bridge, reverse phase slide switch, standard 3-way toggle, Volume, and Tone
S-type vibrato with block steel saddles
Zond 003.1:
Water based poly over fully contoured Ash body
Allparts 25.5” Maple T-style neck, 9.5”R Rosewood fretboard, 21 medium frets
Bootstrap Squeaky Clean neck/T Bridge, standard 3-way lever, Volume, and Tone
T-type bridge with block steel saddles
Custom Stainless Steel Control plate and black Acrylic pickguard
Zond 003.2:
Custom 28” scale Maple Cello conversion neck, 7.25”R Walnut fretboard, no frets
Flatwound strings, tuned C-G-D-A
no-name Firebird neck/Bootstrap T Bridge, standard 3-way lever, Volume, and Tone
T-type bridge with block steel saddles
Custom Stainless Steel Control plate and bwb pickguard