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I guess it's about time this finally entered the GOTM, but its finally completed, so here it goes: First off, though I designed this top to bottom I gotta give credit to luthier Vadim Pashin and the rest of the Shamray staff for the work that went into this. The binding was a real pain but hey, it got done. Name: "Sentinel V" on here and through the design process / officially "CS#1986 Babiak Custom" Construction Method: Neck-thru Neck: Maple (hard rock maple) Neck features: Standard 3-piece (with slightly angled headstock) Fretboard: Ebony, compound radius Frets: 24 – Sintoms "6100" (medium tall, AKA "Jumbo") Nut: Derlin – 43 mm Fret markers: Split parallelograms - half in white pearl, half in black pearl Fretboard binding: Single layer fretboard, 7 layer headstock Body wood: Mahogany Body binding: 7-layer Scale Length: 25.5 inches Strings: Ernie Ball Hybrid-Slinky Machine heads: Sperzel locking (black) Bridge: Kahler Pickup: Bill Lawrence L-500XL (zebra) Electronics: Switchcraft mono jack, 1 volume, thats it! http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Mat_...home/?start=all

great build; a lot like a current rg-style im working the design on congrats, keep up the good work

thats my fault. the guy i had do the rendering did that (no following of contours near neck). the painter just used the reference picture and did it as-is to what i submitted it was afterward that i noticed this, but too late at that point to go "hey, start over and make sure the bursting follows better...." lol, it was already over schedule by several months! (and it woulda cost me....)

ah yeah. scrapped the maple top after i scrapped that paint job. i was unsure if i wanted to go with something so extreme, started toying with more traditional burst and ended up with what i did.

maple striping?

DONE!!!! PHOTOBUCKET: http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Mat_...y%20Custom%20V/ http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Mat_...1986_8461-1.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Mat_...1986_8463-1.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Mat_...S-1986_8459.jpg

yeah, you definitely didn't make that neck. you can barely route the control cavity but try to take credit for the dot inlays and perfectly sanded neck profile? puh-leez question: did you cut the body entirely freehand?

don't really like the body. doesn't really come off as original simply because it's so impractical and lacking any real design forethought. you could in theory make any random shape and call it "original" otherwise, but it doesn't make it original shape if it simply doesn't work.

figure someone out there might be wondering how this is turning out.... http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Mat_/CS-1986_8292.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Mat_/CS-1986_8297.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Mat_/CS-1986_8289.jpg

Nazdarovya! http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Mat_/CS-1986_7743.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Mat_/CS-1986_7744.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Mat_/CS-1986_7747.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Mat_/CS-1986_7732.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Mat_/CS-1986_7735.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Mat_...-12-05_02-1.jpg

Why do people always say this?natural wood on unfigured mahogany just is the worst aesthetic cmbination ever...and solid paint can kick major ass. I just went through all of the pics and I must say I really like what you have going on there...hope it comes out well.I also just noticed it is being done by shamray guitars.I always wondered about those. haha, agreed. the mahogany on the back did look killer though, especially on the neck joint. but yeah, EVERYONE says that but solid colors can look great too, all depends on application.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Mat_/CS-1986_7452.jpg

That's what he's doing, yes. Why? I have no idea

yes sir!

Update: Painting coming along! The nice grain on the mahogany is now a distant memory... http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Mat_/CS-1986_7367.jpg

its not me, i bite mine like crazy

but then it would cover the TRC

for the record, there is a nut, its just not pictured

typo; I know it's not a nut problem is a design issue at my own fault, not the builder.

The problem with my build, straight up, is that the nut isn't jiving with the head stock design. pictures http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Mat_...86_nut_6944.jpg http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y290/Mat_...86_nut_6945.jpg what would be an optimal solution to this problem? right now the ideas I've had thrown at me are: A - put a wedge in there to maintain access B - mount it flat, block access and would have to take off nut to do a TR adjustment if neccessary C - standard nut and use locking tuners any other ideas? thoughts? suggestions?

they are going to fix the paintjob, it's that i want trans-black back and never specified it originally (my fault).....so they now claim they have to strip the entire guitar and sealer to do it....yadda yadda yadda $200

How could they screw that up so badly?! Ugh. Well hopefully it gets corrected and the finish does the guitar justice. well what happened was we never went over the paint in specifics outside of "we'll talk about it later" and the CGI rendering I showed them they saw it and thought it was silverburst; not in the sense of duct-tape colored silverburst now, but classic gibson silverburst (white/cream to silver then black) the back though....my fault, i never went over that with them (assumed we were gonna go over paint when the time came, didnt think they would just straight to it) only stepping stone now is price they want to do the strip and re-finish.....ugh

yeah, looks like we can do the trans on the black since it's going to be stripped.....someone didn't get the memo but apparently it was done in SILVERBURST on the weekend *pukes* oh god...

Really? Well in that case I'm going to tell them to sand it. I asked initially and they said it was too late to go back to natural....(lazy)