Instrument type
4-string solid body electric bass guitar
Year built
2011
Body
Wenge, with carved Beetlekill Ponderosa “Star Destroyers” body cap and control cavity casing.
Tuners
Hipshot Ultralite Bass Keys, and Xtender Key
Neck
5-piece Wenge and Ebony
Fretboard and Pickguard
Ebony
Nut
Graphtech TusqXL nut.
Bridge
Hipshot with Piezo/MIDI saddles
Headstock details
Beetlekill Ponderosa headstock faceplate with inset magnetic truss rod cover. The symbol is the Kuat Driveyards logo, manufacturer of the Star Destroyer for the Empire. Inlaid in meteorite. On the back is a Blindworm “B-Snake” logo in Dinosaur bone.
Pickups
Seymour Duncan Basslines
Electronics Configuration
18v Ghost Acousti-Phonic and Hexpander MIDI/piezo system for bass, Seymour-Duncan Tone Circuit, and everything that is standard on an Imperial II-class Star Destroyer!
Scale
34″
Finish
Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Knobs/switches
Knobs are gun turrets and other ship parts, carved out of Beetlekill Ponderosa
Fingerboard inlay
“Scene of “”The Battle of Alderaan””. Beetlekill Dinosaur Bone and meteorite Tie Fighters, Ambrosia Maple X-Wing Fighters with Paduak accents, Beetlekill Ponderosa Death Star from the Hayman fires, DR STRINGS for the lasers, Diamond Fragments, Lapis Lazuli Alderaan. Many of these elements are arranged as fret position markers.
The stars are also small dinosaur bone fragments.”
Side fret marker inlay
Matching materials to the corresponding inlay feature on the fretboard face.
