History
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Stick Timeline
70's
l0-74 First commercial Stick(R) delivered to customer, made of ironwood with ironwood pickup housing and ironwood belt-hook.
04-75 Metal trapezoidal nameplate on headstock.
09-75 Height adjustable individual bridge screws.
05-76 Neck/fingerboard widened to approximate present width.
05-76 All strings raised a whole tone to present standard tuning.
01-77 Large size "jumbo" guitar frets.
03-77 S-shaped sheet metal belt-hooks with black anodized finish.
03-77 Black anodized sheet metal tailpiece protruding from tail end.
06-77 Black anodized sheet metal pickup module replacing wooden module.
01-78 Entire pickup module height adjustable.
03-78 Rigid, spring tempered steel trusses of 1/2" by 1/4" bar stock inlayed along rear neck.
80's
12-81 Detachable shoulder strap with twist-lock stud.
01-82 Round-wound bass strings replacing flat-wound strings.
04-82 Height adjustable individual nut screws replacing rectangular wooden string spacer and zero fret.
07-82 Curved design detail from nut to headstock surface.
10-82 Injection molded plastic pickup housing with metal fiber shielded interior and molded bobbins for pickup coils.
01-83 Fur dampers replacing velvet ones.
09-83 Injection molded plastic belt-hook replacing sheet metal version.
10-83 Oval nameplate.
11-85 First injection molded black polycarbonate Sticks with stainless steel Fret Rods™ replacing "jumbo" bass guitar frets.
11-85 Introduction of loop style damper with polycarbonate Sticks.
06-87 First Grid(R) MIDI fretboard instrument with MIDI'd melody strings.
07-87 The ten-string "dedicated" Grid with all strings uniformly thin and tuned to the same pitch.
08-88 Rubber-mounted pickup module, isolated from direct vibrational contact with the instrument.
10-89 Hardwood instruments with single adjustable truss rod and stainless steel Fret Rods.
90's
12-90 First three Grand Sticks(R).
07-91 First commercial production of Grand Sticks.
07-91 Adjustable bridge/tailpiece unit for 3-dimensional adjustment of individual strings, including a protruding "butt" for standing the instrument on end.
05-92 Headstock with modified round tip.
01-93 Convertible interior nut screw to re-group strings from 5 melody plus 5 bass to 6+4, and on The Grand Stick from 6+6 to 7+5.
03-93 Larger Fret Rods with 3/16" dia. open-"O" grooves in fretboard.
04-94 Injection molded Grand Stick pickup modules, elongated for the wider Grand Stick instrument body, including molded pickup coil bobbins for 6 and 7 strings.
09-94 Adjustable belt-hook for elevation of instrument on the player.
10-94 Shell inlay set of five sizes in paua, abalone, white pearl and black pearl.
01-95 Introduction of heavy gauge strings as an option.
10-95 Introduction of the Roland GK-2A customized Grid pickup and Roland guitar synth products for all Stick models.
05-96 Mounting Wings™ height adjustable assembly for mounting bar pickups on 7-string Stick Bass(R) and customized Sticks.
07-96 Laminate hardwood construction.
08-97 First NS/Stick™ prototype.
03-98 SB8 with The Block(R) ACTV-2™ pickup module with 2 active EMG-FTs.
09-98 12-string Block ACTV-2 pickup module on Grand Sticks.
01-99 10-string Block ACTV-2.
2000~
01-00 Rails™ 90 degree pointed frets in stainless steel.
02-00 First NS/Stick dual role tapping/plucking guitar basses.
06-00 Flaps™ dual nut with tripodal adjustment of each string group.
01-01 First graphite long-scale 10-string Stick production with Moses Inc.
05-01 PASV-4™ model of The Block module for 10 and 8-string Sticks with Villex's 4 passive single-coil pickups and versatile tone controls.
10-01 PASV-4 Grand Stick pickup module.
07-02 First graphite long-scale 12-string Grand Stick production with Moses, Inc.
01-03 First hardwood laminate long-scale 10-string "Stick X36" production.
Prototypes & Rarities
- Stick Prototype 1
- Stick Prototype 2
- Stick Prototype 3
- 14-String
- Half-Fretless 10-string
- Tenor Stick
- SB-7
- SB-8
- Acoustick
- StickXBL
- Alto Stick
