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Hi, I´m Sebastian, 31 years old, living in germany near cologne. I have started building electric basses 2 years ago. This one shown here is my first electric guitar. As most of us, I'm already completely obsessed with the topic. Currently I'm building in a small 4qm cellar room at home. My past and actual build projects are shown on my facebook page. Do not hesitate to have a look and to tell me what you think: https://www.facebook.com/KaemmerGuitars/ 'Model 222' is a special guitar dedicated to a special person. On February 22nd my first son was born and my grandfather died. With that in mind I've designed and built this guitar with great passion and dedication. The idea of the design was to combine the following aspects: classical, but not a thoughtless carry over of old habits elegant appearance, but not overloaded ergonomic playability and lightweight, without a "freaked out" ergonomic shape expressive and flexible tonerange Building time: 02/17 to 08/17 Project Guitar thread of the building process 'Model 222' specifications in short: Scale length: 25.5" Body: mahagoni, chambered Neck: mahagoni, 3 pieces, scarf joint headstock Fretboard: mahagoni, 12" radius, hardened, porefilled and lacquered Top: "flamed" pear wood Pickups handwound Tuner: Schaller M6 Bridge: Hipshot hardtail, string through Nut: bone, compensated Pickguard: aluminium Finish: 2K PUR high gloss Total weight: 2.9kg / 6.4lbs Flamed pear wood top Mahagoni fretboard Custom '222' inlay at the 12th fret, aluminium fret dots Aluminium pickguard Drop top at the armrest: Thickest part of the body is 37mm Custom control knobs recessed in the aluminium pickguard Volume pot with push-pull for SC split Tone pot with push-pull as cap switch (gives a warmer, mellower mid range tone) Contour shaped backside for a pleasent feeling Matched electronics cavity cover Three piece mahagoni neck, the middle strip is turned over for a improved neck robustness towards weather changes Asymmetric medium v-shaped neck profile Scarf jointed headstock with volute and veneer on the backside Compensated bone nut Matched headstock veneer Aluminium trussrod cover Photographs made by Martin Christ I've filmed myself assemblying the guitar and made a short time lapse video of it - enjoy: Let me know if you like the guitar. Best regards! Sebastian

Now the guitar is almost finished so I took a photo with the hardware. I choose golden hardware, because I think that it matches better with the wood and complements the golden mop purfling. I f I could go back, maybe I would also put EVO gold frets... Now it's time to varnish. I didn't want to dye the wood, so to get an hi gloss finish i decided to use polyurethane and acrylic 2k finish. This combination is really easy to sand and you can get a mirror surface with no need of wet sanding. This is the guitar after clear coat. The mop stands out a lot under lacquer! And this is there result after finishing and buffing. I couldn't be more happy!

Polishing with "Rotweiss 1100" paste applied with a polishing pad attached to the random orbital sander for the larger surfaces again. The remaining parts were polished by hand with a microfiber cloth, which worked out much easier and faster I had expected: