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# Just putting it out there
- URL: https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/just-putting-it-out-there/
- Published: 2022-11-18T18:44:40.000Z
- Updated: 2022-11-18T18:44:40.000Z
- Author: CJ Chilvers
- Tags: guitar, blogging, Social media, newsletters, publishing

Publish your weird ideas in public. You never know who’s listening.

Back in May 2021, I posted this idea about a guitar design to Twitter, tagging EVH guitars:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/93/30/933059b9-0a90-40a6-8ecc-04cdf152178d/content/images/2022/11/Xnapper-2022-11-17-12.48.01.png)

I asked EVH for a Nuno-style version of the guitar (which is a natural-finish ash or swamp ash guitar body with an ebony fretboard and chrome hardware) like this:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/93/30/933059b9-0a90-40a6-8ecc-04cdf152178d/content/images/2022/11/N4ESANM.jpg)

I said I’d pay double for such a killer combo.

One year later, this happened:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/93/30/933059b9-0a90-40a6-8ecc-04cdf152178d/content/images/2022/11/Xnapper-2022-11-17-12.49.32.png)

EVH announced they were doing a limited run of the guitar I requested almost exactly a year before.

Today, it’s home.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/93/30/933059b9-0a90-40a6-8ecc-04cdf152178d/content/images/2022/11/Xnapper-2022-11-17-12.50.08.png)

From a random idea, tweeted a year and a half ago, to the physical product in my hands, this guitar is proof that publishing your wild ideas still matters.