Taku Sakashta was a master luthier and a design genius. The Spotlight is one of his last guitars he made before his untimely death. Sporting a Spruce body with Maple back and a solid Wenge bolt-on neck with a single neck humbucker — it’s a unique combination of wood materials, construction, and pickup selection.
I know Taku loved the Klein Electric Guitars that had Spruce bodies with solid Rosewood necks, and I believe this inspired him to make the Spotlight.
Apparently, only 2 of these were ever made.
Some specs from here: http://www.tgltokyo.com/taku_sakashita_spotlight.htm
Spotlight / Smallest Jazz guitar
○ 25.25 inch scale selected ebony finger board
○ Maple 1P Neck with ebonized finish
○ Tortoise or pearloid pickguard back routed control cavity
○ Gotoh SG 360 tuning machines (with pearloid buttons ) on ebony peg head
○ Selected 2P spruce chambered body figured 2P maple cap on back
○ Bartolini X 88c pickups or some boutique pickups with Raise hum canceller
○ series / parallel switch, hi-cut cap on front, pre settable regular cap on center, and bypass cap on rear view 3 way selector switch
○ Hipshot tremolo on original sustain iron frame
○ Nitro cellulose lacquer finish
Spotlight (commentary by Mr. Tak Sakashita himself) [Translated by Google Translate]
“It may be difficult to play with a big arch top with a gig at the so-called ‘Chiyasa Hako.’ Size jazz guitar that fits comfortably in the pin spotlight will surely hit the world of such walking guitarists. We adopted a thick spruce, which is very difficult to obtain, for the body material. The chamber processing is sealed with Maple’s back plate. It became a little violin-like arrangement. For the sound, the 3 way selector presetting the high-cut capacitor at the front, the regular capacity capacitor with the tone control, the center position, and the sound with the most sharp bypass is set to the rear position is used by the series parallel switch , So that a total of 6 kinds of tones nuance are selected. Of course, Floating set tremolo also supports freeze, and debit / tone like approach.”
