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Thanks I might use it for some project, but not now. We´ll see what is going to come home with me after visiting my supplier.

Certainly some nice Sapele and hopefully zebrawood

Hey all, I found that my wood suplier has some Santos Rosewood and I was thinking of using it as neck wood. What do you think?

I believe it is also called Pau Ferro and that is used for fingerboards.

Correct me if I´m wrong.

Thanks

I hate people who could carve their top beautifully

Have you tried it yet? Those two PRS are my first carve tops

Well, now that is one gorgeous paint job! I like it a LOT!

What do you guys think? Should I make on that singlecut an ebony tailpiece like I wanted,

or should I invest more money on it and buy a wrap around bridge?

I really don´t know now

Again I needed some time to gather inspiration...

Then I did some progress on this one.

Drilling guide holes

Rough cut mahogany core with maple back

And this is how the back looks now. I think that figure is fine

And a quick mockup with neck layed on

Man, I love your builds... you surprise me all the time with all that great pictures

Wow! Very nice build thread. I might use some of your building techniques

Great news on that nice flame maple...

How deep is that neck joint route? I love you builds by the way

looking great. Are you gonna chamber the top too? I am building something similar to yours, and I will carve the top also from the inside.

Makes me want to build a thin superstrat with carved top Awesome build as always!

Beautiful instrument, as always little OT question. Are those black strings good? Friend of mine wants some purple on his guitar.

Very, very nice guitar! How long does it take you to build one of those?

that white back made it absolutely different.. and I like it this way

And after some time there is an update. Finished carving:

Neck glued in and testfit:

Back stained:

And finally color coat on

new wood day!!

Enjoy

It could resist bending, but the question is what will happen when it is under the string tension for some time. I would take the risk and leave it trussless and unrouted. Don´t forget to post some photo

That mahogany is just awesome! Wish I had some like yours Keep up great work, it´s inspiring for me ;-)

Nice cheat Drak!

I started a newer guitar...

body: black walnut

neck: maple and ebony

pick-up: KentArsmtrong custom 7

Where did you get your pickup? I did order my KA´s directly from M. Turza

But I'm almost sure that the old town of Prague was labeled "Staropramen" on the map last time I was a tourist in Prague... Anyway I surely trust your czech to be much better than mine

Oh, back to guitars...or beer...or both

Well I must say that I´m not familiar with history of Prague, but czech and slovak language are almost the same. Anyway Staropramen means also what I wrote Let´s have some

StaroBrno! Great beer, had a few last night.

Beer trivia: Staropramen = "Old Prague" so Starobrno = "Old Brno" and Zlatopramen (if I’m not mistaken) = "Hi there Prague" (or something similar)

You´re almost all.. wrong

Staropramen means something like old strand, Starobrno is really Old Brno (Brno - city) and Zlatopramen is something like Golden strand

Anyway, all of them are great, but my no1 is Branik. Buy some if you can

Thank God for spokeshaves and Czech beer:

+1 for that. Do you know Staropramen or Budejovicky Budvar? They´re my favourite

Congrats on your first guitar. It looks fantastic, I can´t believe it´s your first build Really nice one ;-)

Wish my third build turned out that good

I'm working on the purple Rhoads at the same time.

You ment Firebird right?

I did not finish the carving at all I just tried to do something with it