First commercial Stick® delivered to customer, made of ironwood with ironwood pickup housing and ironwood belt-hook.

Metal trapezoidal nameplate on headstock.

Height adjustable individual bridge screws.

Neck/fingerboard widened to approximate present width.

All strings raised a whole tone to present standard tuning.

Large size “jumbo” guitar frets.

S-shaped sheet metal belt-hooks with black anodized finish.

Black anodized sheet metal tailpiece protruding from tail end.

Black anodized sheet metal pickup module replacing wooden module.

Entire pickup module height adjustable.

Rigid, spring tempered steel trusses of 1/2″ by 1/4″ bar stock inlayed along rear neck.

Detachable shoulder strap with twist-lock stud.

Round-wound bass strings replacing flat-wound strings.

Height adjustable individual nut screws replacing rectangular wooden string spacer and zero fret.

Curved design detail from nut to headstock surface.

Injection molded plastic pickup housing with metal fiber `shielded interior and molded bobbins for pickup coils.

Fur dampers replacing velvet ones.

Injection molded plastic belt-hook replacing sheet metal version.

Oval nameplate.

First injection molded black polycarbonate Sticks with stainless steel Fret Rods™ replacing “jumbo” bass guitar frets.

Introduction of loop style damper with polycarbonate Sticks.

First Grid(R) MIDI fretboard instrument with MIDI’d melody strings.

The ten-string “dedicated” Grid with all strings uniformly thin and tuned to the same pitch.

Rubber-mounted pickup module, isolated from direct vibrational contact with the instrument.

Hardwood instruments with single adjustable truss rod and stainless steel Fret Rods.

First three Grand Sticks®.

First commercial production of Grand Sticks.

Adjustable bridge/tailpiece unit for 3-dimensional adjustment of individual strings, including a protruding “butt” for standing the instrument on end.

Headstock with modified round tip.

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.

Larger Fret Rods with 3/16″ dia. open-“O” grooves in fretboard.

Injection molded Grand Stick pickup modules, elongated for the wider Grand Stick instrument body, including molded pickup coil bobbins for 6 and 7 strings.

Adjustable belt-hook for elevation of instrument on the player.

Shell inlay set of five sizes in paua, abalone, white pearl and black pearl.

Introduction of heavy gauge strings as an option.

Introduction of the Roland GK-2A customized Grid pickup and Roland guitar synth products for all Stick models.

Mounting Wings™ height adjustable assembly for mounting bar pickups on 7-string Stick Bass(R) and customized Sticks.

Laminate hardwood construction.

First NS/Stick™ prototype.

Stick Bass® SB8™ with The Block® ACTV-2™ pickup module with 2 active EMG-FTs.

12-string Block ACTV-2 pickup module on Grand Sticks.

10-string Block ACTV-2.

Rails™ 90 degree pointed frets in stainless steel.

First NS/Stick dual role tapping/plucking guitar basses.

Flaps™ dual nut with tripodal adjustment of each string group.

First graphite long-scale 10-string Stick production with Moses Inc.

The “Ten-String Grand” model with ten wider spaced strings and matching aligned hardware on a Grand Stick sized fretboard.

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.

PASV-4 Grand Stick pickup module.

First graphite long-scale 12-string Grand Stick production with Moses, Inc.

First hardwood laminate long-scale 10-string “Stick X36” production.

Linear fretboard inlays as optional markers in a broad variety of acrylic color.

The “Alto Stick” with shorter guitar scale length, generally tuned an octave higher on bass and melody sides.

Bass guitar inlaid dot pattern introduced on the “SB8” Stick Bass model.

Bamboo material introduced on 8, 10 and 12-string Stick models.

Graphite neck with rear beveled edges and flat surfaces (US trademark #2,138,101) and new hardwood bodies for NS/Stick.

Half fretless option for NS/Stick.

Annodized aluminum housings for Block pickup modules, with dual mounted PCBs containing circuitry and three in-line controls for the PASV-4.

First Stick Guitars® (SG12™), 12-string guitar-scale instuments produced.

Divided truss rod with 4-way push-pull operation in production instruments.

NS/Stick necks in laminated dark bamboo with smaller 1/8″ “Rails”.

Railboard® 10-string Stick model in first production with patented integrated fret (Rail) and beam structure of hard-anodized aluminum, injection-molded bolt-on headstock, and passive/active phantom powered R-Block module with low-profile Villex pickups.

All wood and bamboo laminate instruments with smaller 1/8″ fret “Rails”.

Same Railboard model plasma coated in gold, nickel or gunmetal colored zirconium carbo-nitride bonded to an underlying chrome layer.

First 8-string Railboard RB8™ produced.

First 12-string Grand Railboard™ produced.

Medium sized fret Rails 5/32″ bar stock for all wood and bamboo laminate instruments.