Hot or Not? MAP Guitars Nomad

[Lerxst]

BE NICE. TRY TO BE NICE.....

@dougk has been hosting MAP Guitars in his shop recently and posting some work on Instagram. Checked out his site and noticed that he does another sort of SG mash up...this one is reminicent of an SG and RD combo. I like it more than the SG meets Mustang hybrid I posted a while back.

http://www.mapguitars.com/shop-1


Nomad Standard (prototype demo)


24.75 inch scale
Mahogany body and neck (satin finish on neck)
Wenge fret board with bubinga trapezoid inlays
Jumbo nickel frets with stainless steel zero fret
Faux stone nut
Seymour Duncan JB and Jazz pickups
Graphtech Ratio tuners
Graph Tech Reso-Max wrap around bridge
Mono M80 electric guitar case

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

A neck joint like that and you couldn't keep half the fretboard off of the body? Come on...

 

[Dexter Inferno]

Wood looks really good. That's the nice thing I can say.

Body shape is a killer for me though (not to mention the ridiculously oversized truss rod cover).
Not a fan of both offsets and SGs, combine the two and that's a hell no for me.

 

[jp_nyc]

 

[LeftyTom]

It's OK if you can live with a zero fret and no access above 17th fret.

 

[Guitar Heel]

Blargh

 

[VoidTerraFirma]

It looks like a tumor.

 

[gtrjunior]

Well....I don't have anything nice to say so....

 

[GDSmithTX]

It looks like a tumor.

It's not a toomah .... it's an SGderbird.

 

[Chad]

Sorry. There is nothing about that guitar I like.

 

[DFB]

Once again, nope.

 

[Deep Eddy]

I appreciate that he is building something unique and not just another boo-teek Strat or Tele clone

 

[Fumbles]

Lazy design.

SG on front, Firebird on back. There you go- new guitar.

 

[wok]

Trying...trying....


Nope

 

[Coralkong]

Possibly the most uninspired design I have ever seen.

No.

 

[dodgechargerfan]

Nope.

It might be interesting to see it in a solid colour.
Something bright.
I get a 80s hair metal vibe from it and that, to me, means bright white or neon colours.

 

[Gorgon90]

Wood and hardware choices are good. The design is different and while not screaming out "buy me", wouldn't put me off trying it. Biggest issues for me are what HIAR and LeftyTom pointed out.

A neck joint like that and you couldn't keep half the fretboard off of the body? Come on...

It's OK if you can live with a zero fret and no access above 17th fret.

 

[Jbird]

I like the wood. The body shape wouldn't be a deal breaker.

But yeah, half the fretboard into the body is just silly. About the only thing it would be good for is either someone that never plays above the 12th fret, or for a smaller/young player, as having the strap button closer to the headstock brings the nut area closer for an easier reach for the open chords.

And Dexter is right about that truss rod cover. It looks like you would have to take off the strings just to adjust the truss rod o_O

 

[Jbird]

FWIW, I don't think many people that posted in MAPS would play this guitar...

 

[gtrjunior]

Nope.

It might be interesting to see it in a solid colour.
Something bright.
I get a 80s hair metal vibe from it and that, to me, means bright white or neon colours.

I don't get 80's guitar from this but I do see why you might think that. It almost has that B.C. Rich thing going on.
The SG portion of the shape says 70's to me. Idk.