Guitar Components

PATENT US 12,499,857 B1

IMAGE: Utility patent US 12,499,857 B1 issued Dec. 16, 2025. Design patents include: D1075895, D1073786, D1075896, D1054481, D1101024, D1064055. Multiple additional patents pending. The broader objective is to bring the tremolo to global mass market, through IP acquisition-licensing, or manufacturing partnerships. Learn more about the Rick Toone™ tremolo system.

Spearfish Tremolo | Blueprint

BLUEPRINT | ˈblo͞oˌprint | (noun) a design plan or technical drawing that acts as a model, or template.

Testing and refining the Fender-compatible tremolo design over this past year, I thought the extraordinary bridge performance could be best realized with a purpose-designed guitar. Spearfish™ platform was chosen due to its proven design and delightful ergonomics. The result is a reliable, light weight, balanced, comfortable guitar ready for professional touring/studio.

Pairing the Rick Toone™ tremolo with the Element™ aluminum neck allows for seasonal stability, across continents and climates. Perfect, consistent, string action in changing temperature and humidity conditions. No adjustments required. String action is also consistent — even during radical tremolo use. New musical techniques become possible.

“I picked Blueprint up Friday morning, broke it in for about an hour, and then took it straight to the bus to give it a test run at the show Saturday night.

Rick, this one is IT. I don’t think I’ve adapted to a new build so quickly before. It was just perfect. Whatever the changes made with regard to the neck are, they are exactly what I needed. It just works for me. Pickups are amazing. Add that to the now perfect weight… Blueprint is 100% manageable for a 2 hour, high energy show.

The trem is AMAZING. It’s SO musical. More so than any other bridge system I have encountered. I have a couple of good friends asking me for my thoughts. The word I kept coming back to is “delicate”. Yes you can dive bomb like a mad man, but never before did I feel like I had TOTAL control of the pitch/vibrato/etc… It’s SO stable, yet also can be manipulated with the lightest, gentlest touch. The analogy I used is it makes all other tremolo systems feel like 720p, and yours is 4K. Much like when you saw 4k for the first time and it felt like the cellophane was taken off the screen, so it is with this bridge. The increased accuracy and clarity have to be experienced first hand to be fully understood.” (Matt Richard)

PHOTOS: Rick Toone™ tremolo retrofit-capable for Fender Stratocaster™ guitars. Precision machined in USA from aircraft aluminum and stainless steel. Patented, multiple patents pending.
PHOTOS: Element™ 24-fret aircraft aluminum neck. Spearfish™ neck system has been fully redesigned. Precise, repeatable installation and removal for air travel. Position markers are pass-through design for tactile orientation with maximum visibility. Continuing the slender Element™ theme of 0.5″/12.7mm now with new soft C profile. Familiar 25.5″ scale length with polished stainless steel frets.
PHOTO: Spearfish™ headstock with six-in-line for rapid tuning. Tilt back design with straight string path optimizes tension across the nut. Precise return to pitch.
PHOTO: Spearfish™ 6-string tremolo guitar. Blueprint art finish. Swamp ash, carbon fiber, aircraft aluminum, stainless steel. 6-way switching for true single coil and humbucker tones. Intuitive controls at your fingertips. Reliable machined aluminum output jack positioned below, allowing tremolo arm to swing freely. Pickguard-mounted electronics for simple servicing, without removing neck or trem.

Ekaterina Gorbacheva

Spearfish Headstock
Spearfish Guitar
Rick Toone
PHOTOS: Spearfish™ 6-string guitar headstock machined from single billet aircraft grade aluminum. Patents pending. Hipshot locking tuners. (all images Ekaterina Gorbacheva)

I met Kate (Ekaterina) via Instagram and the excellent work she did filming Misha Mansoor playing his Reptile Spearfish™ 6-string guitar. I love the moods she is able to capture with her photography…levels beyond documentary.

“This is a very interesting path you’ve had, but I see all of it as being highly intellectual and more introverted and I absolutely relate to and admire your choices. On a side note your creations are beautiful and do have a touch of an intellectual to them.” (Ekaterina Gorbacheva)

Ekaterina Gorbacheva
IMAGE: www.ekaterinagorbacheva.com

8-String | Component Set

intonation cantilever tuner bridge
IMAGE: Patented Intonation Cantilever™ solo bridge. Securely anchors plain-end or ball-end strings.
eight string guitar neck
IMAGE: Ball-ends drop in effortlessly and anchor securely on the 8-string Element™ neck.
IMAGE: Slender, sleek and lightweight. Ergonomic contours with smooth flowing thumb surfaces.
element guitar neck
IMAGE: Element™ 8-string multi-scale neck. Single billet precision machined aerospace aluminum.
fretboard flare
IMAGE: Fretboard Flare™ allows exceptional string bending capabilities where you need it most.
intonation cantilever bridge
IMAGE: Patented Intonation Cantilever™ solo bridge. Stainless steel, bearing bronze. Lightweight, precise, stable tuning. Zero intonation drift. Intonation adjusts independent of tuning.

Spearfish | Moby Dick

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PHOTOS: Scrimshaw is the art of engraving the bone or tooth of a powerful animal. Spearfish™ 6-string guitar drives Yngwie Malmsteen’s original 1969 Marshall.
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spearfish guitar
PHOTOS: Perhaps no mammal will ever (can ever) be as powerful as Herman Melville’s great white whale, Moby Dick. Nature, embodied. All that is untamed. You can recite the litany, but still it will not end with simply facts: patent pending Element™ aircraft aluminum neck, stainless steel Intonation Cantilever™ patented bridges, exclusive DiMarzio™ pickups, carbon fiber, resonant swamp ash.
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