2016
- Flame European maple top, back & sides (full hollow)
- 3 piece flame maple neck
- 25.5" scale / 24 frets
- Lollar Imperial Humbuckers, standard wind
- 3 way pickup switch, master volume, master tone
- Series / split / parallel neck, in / out of phase middle position (both pickups)
- Macassar ebony fingerboard & headplate
- Macassar ebony bridge, tailpiece & pickup rings
- Macassar ebony bindings with black / maple / black purfles
- Nitrocellulose lacquer finish, violin-esque color
- Nickel Schaller GrandTune tuners / rosewood buttons
- Custom Cedar Creek archtop / archback case
- 6.9 lbs
Rough carving the back.
Further refining the back's outer carve by hand.
Rough carving the top.
More carving of the back.
Marking out the inside carve of the back.
Cleaning up the back carve.
Fitting the fingerboard purfling.
Gluing up the headplate.
Scraping away the plane marks.
Refining the top's interior carve.
Cutting the f-holes.
Body assembly!
Cleaning up the cutaways.
Cutting the binding ledges.
Refining the back ledge.
Dialing in the back cutaway binding ledge.
Bending the binding.
Roughing out the inside of the back.
Radiusing the fingerboard.
Truing up the neck blank.
Roughing out the neck carve.
Prepping the top inside carve.
Sealing the inside of the rim.
Fitting and gluing in the top bracing.
Trimming the plates flush with the sides.
Making wood bindings.
Flattening the sides.
More back ledge prep.
Refining the top binding ledge.
Bending the cutaway bindings.