Higgs Guitar From Death Stranding 2

I was always a big fan of Hideo Kojima’s work, so naturally I loved Death Stranding. When the first trailer for DS2 hit around December 2024, I was totally hiped. I was so glad that Kojima brought back Higgs as the villain. Troy Baker did an incredible job playing this (and basically every other) character.

When I saw that his main weapon was a guitar, I simply needed to build it. I did guitarbuilds before, but never from scratch. So I started my journey with roughly 30 seconds of trailer-footage, and started measuring my ass off. Fun fact: Mostly the length of Troy Bakers fingers were my reference to get the measurements as acurate as possible.

I started with the rough shapes und then focused on the neck.

The hardware wasn’t easy to find. I needed a headles neck in combination with a mid-corpus bridge. Usually neckless guitars feature and edge-corpus bridge. Fortunately I found a Boden-copy that fit my needs perfectly and that I could strip for parts.