Electric guitar

Claim 2

A guitar comprising, in combination, a longitudinal metal rod, metal fret bars fixed across said rod and extending a distance greater than the width of said rod forming a neck portion of said guitar, longitudinally disposed pickups mounted to said rod adjacent to said neck portion forming a body portion of said guitar, guitar strings fixed to said pickups extending over said fret bars, and means securing said strings at the neck end of said guitar.

Claim 3

The combination according to claim 1 wherein said guitar has six of said strings, said rod being of a width less than the distance between said second and said fifth string.

Claim 4

The combination according to claim 2 wherein said rod has cylindrical grooves formed therein, said rod and said fret bars being of solid cylindrical stock, said fret bars being pressed into said cylindrical grooves.

Claim 5

The combination according to claim 3 wherein said pickups are combination pickups and tuners, each of said pickups and tuners having an outer tubular body containing an upwardly disposed rearward longitudinal slot, an electronic pickup means within said tubular body, a threaded stud containing a longitudinal bore and a forward upward extension, and a tuning nut screwed about said stud and bearing against said tubular body, said stud extending into said tubular body with said upward extension sliding in said longitudinal slot, said strings having beads at the ends thereof and each string being threaded through an axial bore until retained by its bead, each string extending out of one of said longitudinal slots, rotation of said tuning nuts tuning said strings.

Claim 6

The combination according to claim 4 with the addition of a bridge containing lower notches and being disposed across said pickups in front of said longitudinal slots, said strings extending over said bridge clamping said bridge against said pickups with said pickups extending into notches of said bridge.

Claim 7

The combination according to claim 5 with the addition of a rear positioning bar transfixing said rod, notches in said tubular bodies receiving said rear support bar therethrough positioning the rear ends of said pickups thereby, and a front positioning bar fixed in said rod, said front positioning bar containing rearwardly facing openings, said electronic pickup means in said tubular bodies entering said rearwardly facing openings positioning the front ends of said pickups thereby.

Claim 8

The combination according to claim 6 wherein said rod has an upward facing notch receiving and positioning said bridge over said rear positioning bar.

Claim 9

The combination according to claim 7 wherein said front positioning bar is the first of said fret bars.

Claim 10

The combination according to claim 8 whererin said means securing said strings at the neck end of said guitar is a circumferentially grooved string spacing bar fixed to said rod adjacent to the last of said fret bars, and a string tie bar transfixing said rod in front of said string spacing bar, each string passing through a groove in said string spacing bar and being fixed by at least one half hitch to said tie bar.

Claim 11

The combination according to claim 9 wherein said fret bars are progressively shorter toward the neck end of said guitar and said pickups fan outward slightly to lie directly under said strings.