Vesica Strat

Do you still recall that peculiar expanded fretboard/neck by the chaps @ Vesica guitars? Well, they're offering replacement necks for your Strat if you embrace their philosophy.

Vesica guitar

This is quite beyond peculiar, abnormal more like it... but that's what the folks at Vesica guitars have in store for us bored dweebs.

The guitar above, as evident, features an expanded fretboard beyond the 9th fret. According to the manufacturer, it promotes upper frets manoeuverability. Also, one would no longer be limited to the inward movements of the treble-side strings (meaning: you can bend out, towards the neck edge rather than inwards towards the bass strings).

I am not bent to agree with the Vesica people but having owned/ played a 7/8-string guitar, it seems that (psychologically) the fretting hand is opiated to believe that the more neck material available is an assurance that things won't go wrong when you speed up. Strange but true; I keep going back to my Ibanez RG7/ RG8 for this very reason...

Looks-wise, it's not that refreshing, haven't we seen some of those quirks with Parker & Tyler instruments? Hmmm...