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Dave - Thats a great opinion but lets get down to the details - This neck/ guitar is far from being done, so tell me, from your experience, how can or what is the best method of scalloping and finishing a rosewood neck - please give details on the specifics - tools, method, radius and depth of scallop - finishing tactics and any information that can help. Thanks Dean

Thanks for the tip - this is exactly why I posted this guitar in this forum , to get some good information on how to better my guitar building - Could you get me more infor on this? thanks! In response to posting this thred in this specific forum - I was hoping to gain some concrete ideas on how to make our project look even more authentic - Isn't this is a "Project Guitar" forum? - I was also hoping to meet some people who were sincerly into the art of building guitars - Instead, Ive found my responses have been totally weak with quality information, and as far as core details or improvement ideas - little to none. I would appreciate that any future postings be aimed at the "Malmsteen Replica Play Loud" guitar building/relicing process of the guitar. Thanks & PLay LOud We actully perform all our own work using hand tools. We have taken a real Fender Yngwie Malmsteen Signature series strat w/ a Rosewood fretboard and used calipers on each of the 21 scallops to find the exact size and depth. Then we used those dimensions as a guideline for the scalloping process. We did notice in doing this that Fenders version varies quite a bit from fret to fret, Im guessing due to there manufacturing and or finish sanding process of the scallops. Thanks Dean This guitar was built to replicate the nylon stringed strat FCS built for Yngwie shortley after his Chet Atkins got stolen. Our version is a 2002 Fender 70's reissue strat donor that we scalloped the rosewood neck, removed the fender electronics and installed a Bartolli preamp and some graph-tech saddles with built in piezo pickups! A blank pickguard and stereo output jack, and custom sawed nut ties all 6 piezos and nylon strings to finish off the project. The strat sounds amazing - you can actually hear this guitar in a original tune I wrote: http://www.randyciak.com/guitar/dean/Dean_...Salve_Molla.mp3 The tone is very stratish - If you know the tone of a strat - think nylon string strat and you there! I think every little string nuance is picked up by the piezos....listen to the piece very loud to hear what im talking about - thanks for your interest - hope this helps!!! Dean

Hello - I wanted to share with this forum a guitar we are currently building that will be offered for sale on Ebay when the project is completed. We are building a Yngwie Malmsteen Play Loud Replica strat online at our site: www.randyciak.com/guitar. We are showcasing the entire project online with detailed photos of the complete transformation process of a Fender MIM Deluxe strat into a Yngwie Play Loud/the Duck Clone (In rosewood instead of maple fretboard). The cool thing is that people tuning in to the website each week can see a strat neck get scalloped, brass nut installed, The body getting painted in nitro, then reliced, and the full wiring & electronics assy process (Dimarzio pickups). Then we will wrap her up and will shoot a video of us playing Yngwie tunes so our guests can hear the tone of this amazing axe! We will also have out Guitar Girl of the month do a photo shoot with this sweet shred weapon. The grande finale will be listing this cool strat on ebay to sell to the highest bidder - Here is a link to the strat in progress: http://www.randyciak.com/guitar/dean/index_theduck.htm For those interested in more details, we are building this and relicing this guitar to show our visitors the process of building a replica guitar and or clone - the purpose is not to make a fake guitar and pass it off as the original , but to educate our site visitors in the process of building, setting up, and playing cool tribute guitars. If you look at the "Donor" guitar - The body was damaged previous on the upper middle portion where the upper horn begins to extend - yes it was neglected by the previous user and even thrown in the back room of a local Guitar Center music store, so a "new guitar" was not harmed during this project!. We purchased this strat with a vision to give it new life and build a creation that would salute our hero - Yngwie - the Master Shredder. Ive followed Yngwie since 1984 and he has truely inspired my playing style and technique.If you navigate back to our site - http://www.randyciak.com/guitar - you can download a few .mp3's of me playing and hear Yngwie's influence on my technique. This guitar is really a salute to the Shred lord himself, and will be enjoyed for many years by either a collector, fellow player , or fan. Thanks for listening.