Skiye, forgive me if I'm being obvious but it's called Quilted Maple, the pattern you're seeing is the actual wood. Yup dye can make the figure in the grain pop to extremes when done right! (that dye job was no example of what one can do) but it's really cool stuff.
Xanthus, =] You guessed it pretty good ha, it's got a piezo bridge, and a VERY simple knob configuration, theres one main volume, and then a seperate knob for mixing piezo/mag. P/U, and the two holes in the center you see are the mini 3 way switch for selecting outputs: PIEZO / PIEZO & MAG MIX / MAG ; and the other selects either stereo or mono output, so you could send the piezo and mag to seperate inputs or amps. The wiring on the piezo could be wired hexaphonically I guess for MIDI tracking capabilites but I've never done anything like that before.
Oh an update, my planer broke up the quilted top on the electric so that's pretty much ruined =[ But on a better note, I ordered a way better quilt set, a full mahogany body and neck and flame center laminate for the whole back of the guitar and neck, new ebony fretboard, frets everything I need.
I also ordered enough paua for binding around the entire body fretboard and headstock, plus B/W/B layers for around it, and I'm cutting up this small flame maple billet I have for really intense flamed binding, how it should be. The only thing I wasn't floored about the neck from soulmate was that the binding was most like 3A or less because the figure was almost nonexistent. The neck figure was excellent tho but it made the contrast to the weak binding noticable, at least to me =]
seeya guys!