This guitar is one of the first I made, and has just been given a makeover (why?!). It's generally referred to as "that horrible pink thing", for obvious reasons. The body is made from sycamore, and is contoured both on the front and the back. The deep lower cutaway allows access to all of the 24 heavy gauge frets, and the neckplate is recessed for the same reason.

The 3-piece, laminated neck features an unusual 25.2 inch scale length and a 12 inch radius, rosewood fingerboard. The scale length is pretty much half way between the two most common scale lengths.

The bridge is a torsion bar unit, which mounts directly onto the top of the guitar without any routing. This unit is very smooth to use, and tuning is remarkably stable. It is, however, a bit industrial looking. Since the rest of the guitar is totally "metal", the bridge looks quite at home.

The pickups are all made by Kent Armstrong and comprise a pair of 'Kent Specials' single coils matched for neck and middle, and a 'Rocker' humbucker at the bridge. They are wired through a standard 5-way switch and a single volume tone for simplicity. All the usual sounds are there, and the humbucker is tapped automatically when combined with the middle pickup.

In use, the guitar sounds pretty much as you would expect. The lightweight body combines with the heavy bridge to give a trebly, metallic sound. With the bridge pickup selected, the sound is focussed and powerful- ideal for high gain thrash or 'virtuoso' rock as played by Vai or Satriani, although that style of playing is beyond my capabilities. Switching to the medium output single coils gives a suprising range of more sensible sounds, uncannily like those you would expect to hear coming out of one of Leo's finest. This struck me as a bit odd, as the pickups are not in the same place as they would be on a Strat because of the shorter scale and the 24 frets.