Apex Guitars
Although the first 'hybrid' prototypes were guitars, the apex evolved out of the 'SpaltBasses' hybrid design. Guitar players initially responded poorly to the hybrid concept - the vintage craze was in full swing; it was only when the basses showed some success that I was asked to make a guitar along those lines. The result is the Q601. They come with a custom stand, since the hybrid configuration does not fit a conventional stand.
Apex 601 044 HK
Jarrah Burl body wings
Mahogany neck, Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard, 24 ¾" scale
Pearl inlays
Hipshot headless tremolo w/Tremol-no
Graph-Tech Ghost Piezo/MIDI saddles and preamps
Sustainiac
Fralin HO humbucker in bridge
Noll Midrange control
¼" jack, 13-pin MIDI outputs
Vol, Tone, 3-way switch magnetic
Dunlop Straplocks
"Flying Hillman" custom case
Leather, Mahogany with period appointments.
QTG 043 travelguitar
Spruce body wings
Flame Maple neck, Rosewood fingerboard 24 ¾" scale
Floyd Rose nut
Mera Guitars Submarine III single string tuners
Harry Häussel humbucker
Vol, tone
Dunlop Straplocks
Apex 601 042
Flame maple body wings
Flame Maple neck
Bocote fingerboard, 25 ½" scale
Hipshot open back locking tuners
Fralin Pure PAF humbuckers
3-way, vol, tone
Hipshot modified tremolo
Dunlop Straplocks
Apex 601 JJ 041
Flame maple body wings
Flame Maple neck
Cocbolo fingerboard, 25 ½" scale
Hipshot open back locking tuners
Fralin Pure PAF humbuckers
3-way, vol, tone
Hipshot modified tremolo
Dunlop Straplocks
Apex 1202 TK 0918
Custom order double neck
Flame Koa body wings
Hipshot open back locking tuners
Dunlop Straplocks
Top neck:
Mahogany neck
Rosewood fingerboard 24 ¾" scale
ABM wraparound adjustable tailpiece
Fralin PAF in bridge, Noiseless P-90 in neck
3-way switch, vol, tone
2-way switch for neck output selection
Bottom neck:
Rosewood neck and fingerboard, 25 ½" scale
Hipshot tremolo
Suhr Landau Strat pickup set
5-way switch, vol, tone
Separate ¼" jack for bottom neck
Apex Q601 039 'Supermarine'
Flame Maple body wings
Flame Maple neck
Madagascar Rosewood fingerboard, 25 ½" scale
Hipshot open back locking tuners
Lindy Fralin Pure PAF humbuckers
3-way, vol, tone
Hipshot tremolo
Dunlop Straplocks
Apex Q727 040
Apple wood body wings
Flame Maple neck
Ebony fingerboard, 27" scale, 24 frets
Hipshot locking tuners
DiMarzio DP 793 in neck, DP 706 in bridge
Hipshot tremolo
3-way, vol & tone w/push-pull for splitting
Dunlop Straplocks
3.5kg
Apex Q610 038
Pear wood body wings
Indian Rosewood Neck
Indian Rosewood fingerboard, 25 ½" scale
Hipshot locking tuners
Lindy Fralin Pure PAF humbuckers
Hipshot tremolo
3-way, volume, tone
Dunlop Straplocks
Apex Q601 037
Birch Masur (thermotreated) body wings
Maple neck, Madagascar Rosewood fingerboard
25 ½" scale, 24 frets
Hipshot open back locking tuners
Bartolini PBF 59 in neck, PBF 77 in bridge
3-way, volume, tone
Hipshot tremolo
Dunlop Straplocks
Apex Q601 036
Olive Burl body wings
Maple neck
Indian Rosewood fingerboard
25 ½" scale, 24 frets
Hipshot open back locking tuners
Bartolini PBF 49 in neck, PBF 77 in bridge
3-way, volume, tone
Hipshot tremolo
Dunlop Straplocks
Apex Q701 035 Mai
Poplar burl/Walnut body wings
Walnut neck
Madagascar Rosewood fingerboard, 25 ½" scale, 24 frets
DiMarzio Blaze HSH pickup combination
5-way, vol, tone, tone
Floyd Rose tremolo
Hipshot locking tuners
Dunlop Straplocks
Apex Q601 033
Flame Maple body wings
Flame Maple neck
Cocobolo fingerboard, 24 ¾" scale, 24 frets
Lindy Fralin Pure PAF humbuckers
Hipshot locking tuners
Hipshot tremolo
Dunlop Straplocks
Apex Q601 032
Redwood Burl over Honduran Mahogany body wings
Flame Maple/Wenge laminated neck
Bird's Eye Maple fingerboard 25" scale
Joe Barden SC in neck, Two-Tone Humbucker in bridge position
Hipshot locking tuners
Hipshot tremolo
Dunlop Straplocks
Apex Q601 034
Wenge/Purpleheart sandwich body
Wenge neck w/ Cocobolo fingerboard, 25 ½" scale
ABR fixed bridge
Hipshot locking tuners
Fralin HO humbucker combination in bridge and neck, neck splittable
Dunlop Straplocks
Apex Q601 031
Flame Maple body
Flame Maple neck w/Cocobolo fingerboard 25 ½"scale
Floyd Rose tremolo & EVH D-tuna
Locking nut
Hipshot locking tuners
Lindy Fralin True PAF humbuckers
Dunlop Straplocks
Apex Q701 022
Poplar Burl/figured Walnut body wings
Walnut neck w/Madagascar Rosewood fingerboard
DiMarzio pickups
Ibanez locking tremolo
Hipshot locking tuners
Dunlop Straplocks
Apex Q601 030
Flame Maple body wings
Flame Maple neck w/ Madagascar Rosewood fingerboard, 25 ½" scale
LindyFfralin Pure PAF humbuckers
Hipshot open back locking tuners w/barrel knobs
Hipshot tremolo
Dunlop straplocks
Apex Q601 029
Figured Walnut body wings
Mahogany neck w/Bird's Eye Maple fingerboard
Lindy Fralin Pure PAF humbuckers
Floyd Rose trem and nut
Hipshot open back locking tuners
Dunlop Straplocks
Apex Q601 028
Flame Maple body wings
Flame Maple neck w/Cocobolo fingerboard
Lindy Fralin Pure PAF humbuckers
3-way switch, vol, tone
Hipshot tremolo
Hipshot locking open back tuners
Dunlop straplocks
Apex Q601 027
Poplar Burl/Padouk body wings
Padouk neck w/Maple fingerboard
BoneTop P-90 style pickups
Hipshot tremolo
Hipshot open back locking tuners
3-way switch, vol, tone w/push/pull for series/parallel switching
Apex Q601 026
Quilted Maple body parts
Flame Maple neck & fingerboard, 25 1/2" scale
Polished aluminum parts
Lollar Imperial in bridge, Sustainiac in neck position
Volume, Sustainiac, tone, 3-way toggle
Hipshot tremolo
Hipshot locking tuners
Dunop Straplocks
Apex Q 1202 Jarrah TT LT
Jarrah burl body parts
Polished aluminum parts
Bird's Eye maple necks &
fingerboards 25 1/2" scale
Hipshot locking tuners
Dunlop straplocks
Upper neck:
True Temperament low tune frets
Lollar Imperial humbucker in bridge
Graph-Tech Ghost piezos w/ 13 pin MIDI option
Hipshot tremolo
Hipshot locking tuners
Lower neck:
True Temperament Thidell Formula 1 frets
Lollar Imperial in neck and bridge
Don Ramsay Linear Tremolo
Apex Q601 025 Cliff
Poplar Burl body parts
Bird's eye Maple/Wenge neck
Scalloped Bird's eye Maple fingerboard
Hipshot open back locking tuners
Floyd Rose tremolo
Lindy Fralin PAF pickup set
Vol, 3-way switch
Dunlop Straplocks
Apex Q601 024 Yano
Quilted Maple body parts
Bird's Eye Maple necck, 25 12" scale
Polished aluminum parts
Bartolini PBF-57 in neck, PBF-77D in bridge position
Demeter Mid-boost
Volume w/push/pull for pickup split, midboost, tone, 3-way toggle
Hipshot tremolo
Hipshot locking tuners
Dunlop Straplocks
Apex 727 SP 021 Baritone
Walnut Burl body parts
Polished aluminum parts
Mahogany neck w/Ebony fingerboard, 27" scale, custom pearl inlays
Bare Knuckle 7-string Holy Diver humbucker in bridge, Sustainiac in neck position
Graph-Tech Ghost piezos
Hipshot tremolo
Hipshot locking tuners
Dunlop Straplocks
Apex 601 017 Koa
Flame Koa Body Parts, oil finish
Bird's Eye Maple neck
Ebony fingerboard, 24 3/8" scale
Polished aluminum parts
Fralin Pure PAF humbuckers, 3-way togle, vol, tone
Hipshot locking tuners
Hipshot trem
Dunlop Straplocks
2.6kg/5.75 lbs
Vulcan BW 600/2
Custom build with a guitar neck and a 6-string bass neck. Body Spalted Maple, black anodized aluminum. Maple necks with Rosewood fingerboards.
Guitar neck:
Barden TT humbucker in bridge, Sustainiac in neck position
GraphTech Ghost piezos
ETS headless bridge
Bass neck:
Barden 5-string J-Bass pickups
Sustainiac
ABM headless bridge
Apex Q601 018
Polished aluminum parts, quilted Maple body wings. Flame Maple neck, 25 1/2" scale. Sperzel locking tuners, Hipshot tremolo, Bartolini PBF55 in neck, PBF77D in bridge position, both splittable. Dunlop Straplocks.
Apex Q601 Zebra
Polished aluminum, Zebrawood over Padouk body wings, Padouk neck w/bird's eye Maple fingerboard. BoneTop P-90 pickups, Hipshot tremolo, Sperzel locking tuners.
Apex Q727 S Baritone 7-string
Black anodized aluminum parts. Walnut body wings, Wenge neck w/Wenge fingerboard, 27" scale with a 12” radius, Dunlop 6150 frets (medium Jumbo). Neck depth is 21mm, nut width is 49mm, string spacing at bridge is 62mm. It weighs around 3.8kg. Hipshot locking tuners & tremolo. DiMarzio DP706 humbucker in the bridge position, switchable parallel/series. Sustainiac circuit w/neck pickup.
Apex Q601 020
Flame Walnut body wings w/oil finish, flame Maple neck w/Rosewood fingerboard 24 3/4" scale, stainless steel frets. Joe Barden Two-Tone humbuckers, Hipshot trem, Sperzel locking tuners. Curved abalone inlay on the armrest.
Apex Q601 016 'Gothic'
Wenge body wings, oil finish. Mahogany neck w/Ebony fingerboard 24 3/4" scale, stainless steel frets. EMG 89 & 81 pickups. Hipshot bridge, Sperzel locking tuners.
Apex QHL RT hlp90
Walnut burl body wings w/black anodized aluminum parts. Maple neck w/Indian Rosewood fingerboard. Fralin noiseless P-90's, Graphtech Ghost Piezo system, ETS tuner mechanism.
Apex Q601 Walnut
Walnut body wings with black anodized aluminum parts. EMG pickups, Hipshot tremolo, Sperzel locking tuners.
Apex Q601 LW
The center section contains a Suhr Fletcher-Landau Strat set along with the Ilitch Noise suppression coil (Also available from Suhr guitars). Graph-Tech piezos in the Hipshot tremolo feed the Graph-Tech Ghost system. A 13-pin hexaphonic output is provided along with the regular 1/4" jack. Hipshot locking tuners with barrel knobs ensure tuning stability. Maple burl body wings.
Apex Q601 MJ
Spalted Maple body wings, Maple neck w/Rosewood fingerboard. Polished aluminum metal parts. Hipshot tremolo bridge w/Sperzel locking tuners. Seymour Duncan '59 in the neck, JB in the bridge.
Apex Q601 'Gothic' CL
"Gothic" Wenge body parts, polished aluminum. Mahogany neck w/Ebony fingerboard. EMG 89 in the neck, 81 in the bridge. Sperzel locking tuners, LSR roller nut and Ibanez Lo-Pro Floyd Rose tremolo.
Apex Q601 YW
Yellow-wood with Wenge accents. click here for work images.
Apex Q601 HL
A headless travel guitar, designed to be as light and compact as possible. Both the Lace Alumitone pickups and the Strandberg tuners were chosen with that in mind. The Strandberg tuners are extremely light, with a beautiful design that matched the hybrid aesthetic wonderfully. http://guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com/
Apex Q1202 Custom
This doubleneck was commissioned by Jared Meeker. It combines a 36 fret 25 1/2" scale neck on top with a 27" baritone neck on the bottom. String mutes can be mounted at the nut for Jareds complex tapping techniques. The top neck has piezos and a Graph-Tech Ghost MIDI system with 13-pin output. The bottom neck is equipped with a Sustainiac. Two bartolini humbuckers supply the magnetic signal. The body parts are flame Koa, the necks flame Maple. This has been on the road with Jared for the past years and proven its mettle.
Controls chart
Bartolini humbuckers
Hipshot tremolo bridges
Sperzel locking tuners
Graph-Tech Ghost piezo/MIDI system
Sustainiac by Maniac Music
Straplocks by Dunlop
Apex Q601
Spalted Maple burl body wings, black anodized aluminum parts. Maple neck w/Rosewood fingerboard. 2 Joe Barden humbuckers. Hipshot tremolo and Sperzel locking tuners.
Apex Q601 'Sindri'
Maple burl body wings, with polished aluminum parts. Flame Maple neck w/Indian Rosewood fingerboard. A combination of a 'Bare Knuckle Miracle Man' bridge pickup and a Bartolini PBF-55 neck pickup. Ibanez LoPro chrome tremolo w/ Sperzel locking tuners. For work images click here.
Apex Q601JD
Highly figured Walnut body parts. Black anodized aluminum parts. Rosewood neck. 2 Bartolini humbuckers. Hipshot bridge and Sperzel locking tuners.
Apex Q601 Jarrah
Jarrah burl body wings. Flame Maple neck. LSR tuners and nut. Wilkinson tremolo and Bartolini humbuckers. This guitar features a detachable knee rest which also swivels, for a higher playing position when seated.
Apex Q601 MIDI
Quilted spalted Maple body wings, flame Maple neck w/Rosewood fingerboard. Graph-Tech ghost piezo/hexaphonic system w/13-pin MIDI output. 2 humbuckers, Sperzel locking tuners, Hipshot tremolo.
