Is it a bird? Is it a rather scary cat?

Feline guitars came up with this - cool or what?

I mentioned the other day that there are plans-a-foot for a second of our Katy's Killer Custom guitars, following on from The OCD One, and I thought that perhaps it might be good to talk about it a wee bit more.

As we stand, I have got a rough spec from Andy, the chap it is for, and the mock-up on the right, to illustrate the point and I think we are 97.5% sure what it is going to work out like.

The nice thing, from my point of view, is that already it is going along the same lines as it did with Geoff. Andy had some ideas, I came up with a few more and then we've batted-them-about until we're both happy that it is achievable and gives Andy the guitar he wants.

And what a guitar this is going to be. You may have seen Andy popping up in the comments talking about offset guitars, and that is what we are going for, with a couple of radical twists.

For a start, it is going to have a Jaguar/Jazzmaster type of body.

Bolted into that we're aiming for something that looks a lot like a neck from a Gibson Firebird, complete with the 'right' kind of vertical 'banjo' tuners, though they will be the Steinberger version as they apparently work better than the Gibson originals, and look amazing.

Pickups, we're having a humbucker and a P90 for that Gibson BFG Les Paul type of rock 'n' roll-ness, with kill switches, coil taps and anything else that gives us a few different sounds thrown in on the leccy front that we can muster... This is going to be a working guitar, and is going to need to handle snarling overdrive, creamy fuzz and as well as some cutting cleans. (I read that in a brochure somewhere, but it fits...)

As for the finish, well it will only be the second ever 'Kylie' as it will have a rather cool comic book feel to it, based on Marvel's Punisher series, although done in a quite different way to The Beano One of yore.

Obviously the first thing i did was order some comics, purely for research purposes. That'll account for the first week.

In terms of timings, the aim is to have it finished pre-Xmas, which I think we should manage OK. I've decided that i'll only be doing one 'Custom' at a time, and everything else will have to fit in around it as it's only fair really.

So as far as our Katy goes, that will be it for this year, and sorry if you have been wondering whether to try one or not, but there won't be any more until the new year (though there are a few Leona's on the cards, ahem, if you have an itch that just has to scratched).

Obviously, a couple of days in and we're still finalising everything; it is as yet unnamed, but I think it will prove to be a stunner when we get there - like Geoff's OCD One, a custom in every sense of the word...

Man, I'm all-of-a-buzz

p.s. At the time I wrote this,  I didn't realise that Feline Guitars were doing a combo Jaguar and Firebird and that I'd used their foto. I wish I had as they are super cool British luthiers and they make lovely, lovely guitars. They were very nice about it, but credit where it is due, and if you are into guitars you really should... Check them out HERE