Patent ID: 7598444

Claim:
A stringed musical instrument comprising: a stringed musical instrument body comprising a wooden inner core element comprising a solid piece of dense fiber wood having routing openings in the inner wooden core for the musical pickups, control cavities, and a neck pocket to receive a neck attached thereto, the wooden inner core imparting a wood quality tone to the stringed musical instrument; and a shaped body portion enveloping the wooden core, the shaped body portion comprising a shaped front panel and a mating back panel with a shaped outer perimeter wall therebetween spaced apart from the wooden inner core, the shaped front panel and mating shaped back panel sandwiching the wooden core therebetween with the outer perimeter wall enclosing the edges of the musical instrument body, the shaped body portion formed of injection molded synthetic material combined with a foaming agent to create a series of air bubbles extending throughout the shaped body portion forming a continuous network of miniature sound chambers throughout the synthetic material, the shaped body portion imparting sustain and resonance to the stringed musical instrument; a neck having a fingerboard attached to a forward end of the stringed musical instrument body; musical pickups attached to a top of the stringed musical instrument body; strings attached between the neck and the musical pickups.