First time I’ve heard of Shark guitars and my jaw just dropped. These guys are true innovators:
Personally and excluding artistic builds, I think this is the first guitar I’ve ever seen that truly honors its $3500+ price tag.
Cool stuff! YouTube recommended their product announcements. Lots of stuff packed into one instrument. I don’t know how much I actually need any of this, but I love that people are thinking outside the box.
I thought the same. Perhaps I wouldn’t use half those features but oh lord it’s refreshing to see a mad genius putting himself out there with new ideas, especially in a market that lives suspended in the 50s to a great extent.
Also, I appreciate how open they are when it comes to collaborating with other builders.
I honestly would rather have a non-detachable neck 
I think having it detachable would introduce some instability and reduce sustain.
That said, the bridge seems awesome. I’ve dreamed of a Floyd esque hard tail with fine tuners for years and I currently have a blocked Gotoh GE1996T which is pretty close to being just that. Adjusting intonation on floating brides sucks though The shark tremolo fixes that issue. Hope that approach becomes the new standard.
Just for the record, all the guitars I make (well all the acoustic guitars I make) have necks that aren’t attached to the guitar except for string tension. They sort of float in a rotating tenon system.
I can say they are LOUD. For various reasons. And they stay in tune as well as any other guitar. Perhaps better.
There’s a few things I’m doing that all contribute to the volume, but I think there is something very beneficial of not having the neck and the body coupled. Particularly in an acoustic guitar where in most guitars the fingerboard is glued to the top in a way that I think is really not ideal.
Anyway, just my experience. Volume and tone is subjective but that’s usually the first thing someone says when they pick up one of my guitars “it’s loud!”
I am honestly a bit surprised how well they stay in tune with just string tension holding them on, but they do.
In this case, a lot of the innovations are cool but I don’t like the idea that the guitar in general needs to be “fixed” and sometimes people are fixing problems that don’t really exist. 52 Telecasters are pretty cool, don’t fix them. A shitload of complicated proprietary parts that accomplish not a whole lot and would suck to replace or repair (guitars are known to break) has its own issue.
But it’s still an impressive amount of innovation and engineering.
I’ve thought about making guitars with multiple necks but…what’s the point? If you’re actively playing guitar or playing live on stage, you’re going to put one or the other neck on it. You should just get two guitars.
All my opinion…
These guys live in 3026! 
I was unfamiliar with https://sharkguitars.com, but they’re clearly very clever, and I love how they’ve gone in-house for their manufacturing, embracing titanium… yes, the guitar of a 100 years in the future, today.
The floating neck in the rotating tenon system sounds super interesting - is it something you came up with yourself that’s proprietary, or did you learn it from somewhere yourself?
This is a little video I did a while ago. I’ve since updated the joint so that the notch that you see in the wood of the heel here is replaced with G10 which is a fiberglass composite. It makes the heel much stronger and helps me make the joint. But this is the basic concept.
https://youtube.com/shorts/0beIKfm60ss?feature=share
(It’s a short so you have to click it)
Oh and like a lot of stuff, I stole this. It was originally used AFAIK by Greg Smallman on Classical guitars and then Trevor Gore who is a sort of scientific guitar pioneer showed it on some classicals as well. Greg Shraam used it and I sort of reverse engineered it because there are no how tos as far as I know.
Recently I modded it with the fiberglass and I think that one is safely mine. Guitar making, especially acoustic, has this tradition of really open source idea sharing and it’s really a nice thing. For the most part if someone invents something and you like it, even if it’s pretty unique, people will be like “yeah go ahead!”. It’s sort of special in that regard. Other than the baddies (Gibson/Fender).
If you’re interested here’s a long step by step video of taking the neck off I made for a customer. Fairly boring but it shows the process. Guitar is a Petite Bouche Selmer I made.
Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle! What a cool concept! Fret adjustment? Guitar effect “slots”? Removable and switchable necks? Switchable pickups? Stable tuning and intonation? Oh I think I want one…
Teles are safe. Nobody’s putting adjustable frets on them.
I guess it’s just a matter of preference. Nostalgia is worth that kind of money (and more!) for some but I’d rather support an aspiring innovator like this guy. I just love fresh ideas like FR bridges back in the day, Evertune, the OG Khaler, Steinberger guitars, roller nuts, etc. I don’t think this works is meaningless.
I think that they break the guitar down (take the neck off) for transport, and they have a backpack that seems to be designed for that. My guess is the neck comes off every time the guitar leaves the house. I’m not sure why you’d want multiple necks if the strings stay the same, but that can be done “for free,” if one is interested.
yeah to be clear, the guy is a genius of engineering. It’s really impressive.
I guess for me my design philosophy is mostly about simplicity, repairability and what is likely to get used. I like innovative stuff a lot but also stuff that is likely to get used as a musical tool. For me a lot of it seems gimmicky. And at some point that company is out of business, is someone going to be able to repair all the modular electronics and proprietary stuff? There are advantages to using the same old wiring style that’s been around forever. And repairman can solder pickups and pots.
Just my thoughts though, it’s a crazy innovative design. For me the Parker Fly was a more organic and usable guitar that was still massively innovative. Stuart Sankey’s stuff as well.
Your overall position is hard to argue with. If their Ocean ecosystem becomes popular enough, there should be a comfortable supply of parts. I like their mechanical design but I wouldn’t need their onboard effects and swappable pickups.