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They all look phenomenal to me, no matter which color.

28"-26" fanned fret build. My own handwound active pickups. Really like how the pickup design turned out without tabs. Turkish walnut top, wenge back, quilted mahogany neck, ebony fretboard. Sintoms bronze frets, Schaller DaVinci tuners, Hipshot bridge. Tru-oil for finish, wenge is unfinished.

Thanks man! I had to do a cheeky little truss cover for it. It says Snow Wave in finnish, so as a happy accident I noticed when sanding the CA that it kind of looks frosted around the logo and left it like that.

I'll need to build something like that for pickup build testing! For now it's just the floyd equipped guitar that makes pickup swaps pretty seamless, just remove the pickup ring screws and done. But always good to have some excuse to build more guitars.

No he meant the current coat of arms of Finland with the lion is from 1580, not lions in general. Christianity arrived in Finland in early 1000's.

This desperately needs a video clip.

The fact that the plate goes only partway on the end instead of full width of the fretboard really niggles my ocd.

I had to do a quick tone test immediately. Zero mixing or regard for clean playing. https://soundcloud.com/lumiaaltoguitars/lumivirta-metal

GOM pics It started to rain just when I decided to redo this shot. Out of focus it is then.

Here's my only build this year (so far) called Snowstream. Started in a band that does more modern metal than what I've been used to. I'm old school. But I decided to make a guitar that can handle the super low tunings. 26"-28" scale, 24 Sintoms bell bronze frets, ebony board, through dyed birch veneer on headstock, Graphtech Tusq nut, Schaller DaVinci tuners, Hipshot 26 degree bridge, turkish walnut top, wenge back, quilted mahogany neck, brass fret dots. My own active pickup design. I really like how clean it looks without the legs. Tru oil on everything except the wenge, that's just sanded to 320 with no finish on it. Dreamy out of focus shot (it started to rain so this is it )

Now we're making progress, first "tsönk tsönk" palm mutes done in E (octave down). Fretwork needs to be done, the nut looks horrible, I'll shape and sand it down.

Looking good, very slick! I wouldn't worry about knocks, guitars are tools for making music, not artworks to hang on a wall. IMHO. And why I like oil, is that you can just sand it out and reapply the oil, very quick and easy to fix compared to lacquer.

Me too! Somehow make me think of Africa much more than any other wood. Must be the tiger stripes. (Yeah I know tigers live in Asia :D)

I think I'll try to avoid finish on the wenge completely, it turns very dark when oiled and I want to keep this beautiful grain. From what I've understood wenge, like ebony, doesn't need any finish on it. Here's how it looks with the ferrules

I prolly would've aligned the grain but I didn't have any pieces large enough to do that. So it's like that now.