Okay, so you have a carbon-fiber Ridgewing body that is light, but that doesn’t have quite the sustain you are looking for, and you wish it were a bit heavier. Your heavy-metal playing band-mate thought it would be totally cool to have an aluminum guitar body, but started to form a strap-notch in their shoulder. Neither of you can afford to buy a whole new guitar body. What to do?

Well, you and your mate are in luck. With the ratification of the 99^th Amendment to the Constitution, known as the “Ridgewing Amendment”, it became legal for carbon-fiber guitars and aluminum guitars to blend. For the first time, you could get together with your mate, quickly and loudly violate a number of ancient and sacred beliefs, and get away with it. In just seconds, you walk away with a little heavier guitar to check out if has more sustain, and your band-mate has a chance to mend that shoulder strap-notch. The world is made a better place in the bargain.

Technical Note : The carbon-fiber and aluminum frames have identical shapes except in the neck pocket, where the aluminum frames have had their neck-mounting set screw bosses moved forward to be flush with the front edge of the frame, rather than a be positioned a few millimeters back from the edge, as in the carbon-fiber frames made to an earlier design rev.

This little mod doesn’t create a problem because the rear-adjusted micrometer-threaded set screws are 30 mm long, and you just have to crank the short side out further to make even contact with the neck joint hard-points, then fine adjust to get the neck exactly straight when you put these two body frames together.