Parts Management
Add, edit, duplicate, delete, search, import, and export guitar parts through a shop-friendly inventory system. Database IDs stay hidden behind human-readable categories and labels.
DarkMatter Software · Luthier Engineering
LEXX
Design · Build · Perfect
LEXX is a standalone digital workbench for luthiers and guitar builders. It combines structured parts inventory, custom instrument projects, component selection, engineering compatibility, build sheets, and an evolving 3D assembly system inside one focused application.
Nicknamed LexxLuthier and occasionally Lexi, LEXX is being designed less like a generic configurator and more like a working lexicon of the physical decisions that make an instrument fit, function, and ultimately exist.
PRE-ALPHA DEVELOPMENT
Core workflow is alive and evolving.
20
Current Builder component slots
17
Current component categories
3
Compatibility severity levels
1
Unified luthier workbench
What LEXX Already Does
A guitar builder with a memory, a rulebook, and a workshop ledger.
The current development build already moves beyond a parts picker. LEXX stores projects, inventories components, assembles configurable builds, evaluates compatibility, and produces build-ready output.
Instrument Profiles
Create guitar projects around instrument type, handedness, string count, scale length, intended use, notes, and build-specific decisions.
Expanded Guitar Assembly
Build from body, neck, fretboard, nut, bridge, tuners, pickups, pickguard, electronics, hardware, finish, strings, and more.
Compatibility Engine
LEXX already evaluates string-count, scale, neck-joint, neck-pocket, bridge-routing, pickup-routing, tuner-layout, and selected dimensional compatibility with info, warning, and danger results.
Build Sheets & Exports
Saved assemblies generate structured build sheets with selected components, estimated weight, compatibility findings, and exportable HTML and JSON data.
Standalone Application
A Python-launched local application wraps the PHP/SQLite site, preserving a dependable admin, security, project, and database workflow while new guitar intelligence grows underneath.
The Luthier Workbench
Built around the way parts actually interact.
A guitar is not a pile of attractive components. It is a network of interfaces, dimensions, mounting systems, clearances, materials, and decisions. LEXX is being shaped around those relationships.
✓Neck joint family and pocket/heel fit analysis
✓Bridge routing and body-thickness compatibility
✓Pickup route validation
✓Tuner layout and bore-size checks
✓Scale and string-count mismatch detection
→Neck width, bridge spacing, nut geometry, electronics fit, and deeper engineering next
Development Status
Far enough along to work. Early enough to keep getting smarter.
LEXX is currently in active pre-alpha development. The application shell, inventory administration, user system, project workflow, expanded Builder, database migration path, and first compatibility engine are operating.
Working Now
- Standalone Python launcher and local web application
- Protected login and application-owned default administrator
- Full inventory CRUD with shop-friendly foreign-key labels
- Projects and configurable guitar builds
- Expanded component vocabulary
- Typed engineering properties
- Severity-aware compatibility analysis
- Build sheets with HTML and JSON export
- Migration-safe SQLite development workflow
Being Built Next
- Deeper neck, bridge, nut, and string-spacing engineering
- Pickguard and pickup-layout rules
- Control cavity and electronics fit validation
- Broader real-world parts inventory
- Component geometry manifests and attachment points
- Neutral assembly description format
- Interactive 3D model assembly and inspection
- Portable web-ready 3D export packages
The Road Ahead
From inventory intelligence to assembled geometry.
Engineering Metadata
Turning guitar parts into structured, comparable physical components.
Compatibility Depth
More dimensional, routing, spacing, electronics, and setup intelligence.
3D Assembly Standard
GLB assets, coordinates, origins, anchors, transforms, and component manifests.
Interactive 3D Workbench
Assemble, inspect, visualize, render, and export complete guitars for the web.
“The goal is not merely to show a guitar. The goal is to understand why the guitar can be built.”LEXX Design Philosophy