| "We need a sitar ... a double neck actually ...
with humbucking pickups ... and a Floyd Rose bridge ... and it all has
to function properly. We need some mock-up renderings by tomorrow
and the finished product completed in the next couple of weeks" This
is the phone call that our own David Hill received some months ago from
the production company of Mike Myers' new movie "Love Guru".
There aren't a lot of techs who would be up to
this kind of task, but in collaboration with Brady Milloy and with Dave's
23 years of experience repairing & restoring musical instruments ...
they got the job done ... in time and within budget!!!
After procuring a couple of standard sitars,
some of the many challenges facing Brady & Dave were to securely join
two bodies made essentially from a couple of gourds, shorten one
of the necks to give it a 12string-6string-Jimmy-Page look, custom
fab some "traditional looking" electric sitar control knobs and of course
then ... THEN ... figuring out how to securely mount the Floyd Rose bridge!!!
What a nightmare!
Our hats go off to David Hill & Brady Milloy
for creating this really cool double neck electric sitar that will now
reside in Mike Myers' personal collection! |
