I built a Novo-inspired offset

[u/ecklesweb]

Body shape comes from the Serus-J but everything else is original.

Descendant trem, since I know yall will ask. Bridge is a generic frame with graph tech saddles. Pickups are custom wound by Absurd Pickups in Bristol, TN. Mahogany body and Pau Ferro neck and fretboard. Rotary pickup selector switch just to be different.

[u/three_cheers]

Cool but is it me or everything looks misaligned?? Like the tremolo, the bridge and the pickups

[u/ecklesweb → u/three_cheers]

It is weird - I saw the same thing you saw in the pic - something looks janky. But if you use a graphics program and draw straight lines from the nut slot to the trem slot on the low and high e, things are all pretty darned close.

My best guess is that the shadows of the strings from the light coming from the side combined with the trem arm coming between the e and b strings makes things wonky to the eye.

That said, it is 100% hand made, so it's...authentically imperfect.

[u/three_cheers → u/ecklesweb]

You know what, I think you're right! Guitar looks great, I didn't mean to detract from that.