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Love everything about this, from wood selection to what you're building. Rosewood neck being my fav. part about it. Following this one closely

I remember this interview: Ola and Ola mention this very community around 14:00 onwards... but yeah, always cool to see where they came from and how they started.

If you put clearcoat over it, no matter what kind, it will make it reflect more light for sure, you'll get a less black black as a result. I know that vantablack is super flimsy, Black 3.0 should be a bit more resistant but still... thinking of it now, I'll probably order a bottle, I have an artsy friend whose b-day is coming up, will use that as excuse to get it and see what she does with it and how it'll turn out

Saw this some time ago, the story of the blackest black is actually pretty funny. The folks behind Black 3.0 have a beef with the IP owner of Vanta Black (Kapoor)... even in the terms of use/sale, it's stated that anyone can buy Black 3.0 besides the Kapoor hahaha.... I was looking into ordering it and painting a few things with it for shits and giggles. But it's extremely fragile, and anything painted with it needs to be handled with care, so it's not a color to paint an everyday item with. I've seen it live, and it's super interesting and bizarre. You paint a contoured item with it, let it dry, and it loses all contours. It ends up looking like a 2D object, and when you rotate it, and it starts changing shape, it's pretty mindf**king. All in all, Black 3.0 can be ordered at: https://culturehustle.com/products/black-3-0-the-worlds-blackest-black-acrylic-paint-150ml?variant=41147281342622 I'm now again tempted to order it and paint a few decorating items in my house with it haha...

It's both sad an happy seeing the finished build pictures. Absolutely stunning, but nothing less was expected. The way you approach building tools/jigs you'll use to build this showed early on that this will be absolutely flawless... great build, thanks for posting so many detailed pictures of every step it took to make this.

Haven't been the most active lately as far as posting goes (been mostly reading build threads)... I literally come here for the odd builds Thin body, odd materials, non standard shapes... I don't see the point of making a "Gibson Les Paul" 1:1 copy, since you can buy that off the shelf. The fun starts where off the shelf doesn't cut it for one

What I come here for exactly this kind of content... bravo!

Love the body shape, love the wood selection, definitely keeping an eye on this.

Was confused at first and surprised no-one thought of that before. But once you get it to thickness it'll be basically a scarf join, the kind of join I see less often around here: So basically method 2 just with the comfort of having a loooot of extra material making it easier. But again, clinical work, with the pins and everything, awesome.

Ufff, beyond pretty. Wouldn't mind owning the dark one, amazing job!

Congrats man, I have to admit I didn't vote for it, but I'd lie if I said it's not a worthy winner. Superb build and build thread in general. Love the way you do certain things, keep building and documenting for us!

Finally caught up on reading it all. Sorry to hear about the hardships you encountered, but I'm kinda glad it happened and you went all in with the arm bevel with the second top. Interesting read, I'll sound like an ass, but I love reading such stuff and learn from other peoples mistakes Nice set up for the sanding block to get the bevel done. I assume the guitar is on a rotating stand or just fixed on a sled you were sliding freehand around? All in all, impressive save, and work on the bevel. Godspeed for the rest!

Damn lol, looks so unreal, CGI levels of uncanny how perfect it is. Great job man.

So here is what I have: -table saw and a jig saw for rough cuts -nokogiri saw (japanese saw) or however it is called for more precise stuff (scarf join on neck, fret slots) -router + various drill bits and homemade jigs/templates to get stuff done (truss rod channel, flattening surfaces for joining...) -aku drill + various drill bits (don't have a drill press) -various rasps for rough and fine contouring -a chisel (there is some stuff, like squaring off the truss rod channel, that can be done with a chisel only pretty much) -sheet sander and hand sander (would like to get random orbital sander, but I get it done this way as well) -glue, clamps and a looong metal ruler So yeah, seems like I get away without having some of the tools people listed in here, but I do tend to spend more time on certain tasks I guess (for example setting up the sled to flatten surfaces for joining can take time, and then sliding the router itself across the whole surface instead of having a plainer). And for some, even this list would be too much, and they get away with even less tools/do much more by hand. All in all, depends on your skill set, preferences etc. etc... some here basically have a CNC and not much else

I'll press "Thanks" from now on for your updates, because we're past the point of me liking this thread. I know I won't be building acoustics anytime soon, if ever, but the level of craftsmanship in this thread is truly inspiring. Thanks for that, can't wait to see the rest.

Ufff, hard month. The Lucifer build is insane in its own way, so is Andys Nemesis... gotta hate being the judge once a month haha.

Really no idea, I tried to go with the "tree of life" inlay style but with the leaves you're using, they just don't fit. I don't wanna lose details, because the way you've done them, they do look pretty. But yeah, no idea how to retain details yet not make it look to cluttered. Maybe just use acorn nuts as the fretmarkers and have a branch go all across the fretboard. Best'o'luck mate, can't wait to see what you'll pick

Brushmaster was my second pick, but the "I'm a simple man" prevailed, inlay on brushmaster is a bit too much for me. As far as "more on the upper bout" goes, I also agree with that, to the point I used my level 9000 paint skills to mock up how I had it in my mind. Sorry if I touched your designs inappropriately. But yeah, that's where I'd place it as well, in my head it just makes sense that it's up there instead symmetric in the center. All in all, I will be honest, I like all the designs to an extend, non of them make me puke a little in my mouth, it's just, some of them I'd like to own more than others when I see that you put custom designed knobs on some of these, I know it's gonna be good, whatever you build

I'm a simple man who likes the look of raw wood. Nouvelle takes the cake (also, I wanna see a fanned fret LP build )

I can only imagine how hard it is to get such a flat color to look that good. All the surfaces need to be perfect, curves continuous etc. great job, love that tone of blue.

Clinical work, I hope once this is done, you keep building and posting here. It's stuff like this that keeps me coming back to these forums, great job.

I had a feeling this would be done in December and I'd lose out to one more time haha... at least I know my gut feeling is still well calibrated and gives good estimates It's really coming together awesomely. Headstock looks great, and the whole thing came to life with the hardware installed. Nice job man!

Purpleheart for fretboards looks awesome, the inlay as well, damn... this gives me food for thought for my next build... thanks

Yeah, the precision and attention to detail is inspiring. Keeping an eye on this.

Yeah, congrats for GOTM. So many details on that thing, from the knobs, pickup selector ring etc... superb build, well deserved victory