Hello all - Im a guitarist and was taken by the status bass design in the 80's. I was not aware of the 6 strings Rob was building until today when I discovered this great site!
I thought it may be of interest to share my workaround with you :-) I designed and had professionally made a Guitar based on the Status bass.
It features rock maple through neck, ebony board, alder body 'wings', hybrid steinberger trem (for anyone in the know on steinberger its an R-Trem top & Jam trem bottom so it can lock to fix bridge on the fly with the trem arm - pretty cool), Kent Armstrong pickups and a roland GK internally fitted.
I designed it in 1989 and it was completed in March 1990 - its been my main guitar since that day.

does anyone have experience with the status guitars, (playability & sound) both GMT and slipstream?

Regards
Phil

This is the Guitar...

closer shot....

That's rather pretty - what are all the controls?

Hello Phil, actually it's good to hear about guitars on this forum! I have both a maple top guitar (now called Slipstream) dating back to 2004 and a GMT guitar (small, small) dating back to 1982.

Congratulations on your project!

The controls are (from the top down)
5 way std pickup selector
3 way synth / mix / guitar selector
rotary passive tone with push/push switch for coil tap
rotary volume for synth
rotary volume for guitar
two momentary buttons assignable but I use them for patch change on synth.

It was built by Steve Clark Guitar Luthier in Nottingham UK (Tel 0115 9313916) - he is an excellent Luthier but he is really in demand and has long lead times, especially on full builds (worth the wait though).

Andre
what do the Status guitars sound and feel like?

Regards
Phil

Hi Phil, well this needs a lengthy reply, so as soon as have a few minutes I will do it with pleasure!

Meanwhile, trust me, they are both great instruments!

I'll be back,
André