Here's my entry.... it's my first ever guitar!!!
NAME: “CMCg-I” (named after my girlfriend, Christina)
Body: 2 piece Spanish Cedar back, 2 piece Canary Wood top (semi-hollow)
Neck: 3-piece Mahogany (deep set), “Black & White” Ebony fret-board
Hardware: Grover locking tuners, Hipshot™ Fulcrum tremolo, Dunlop strap-locks.
Pickups: PRS McCarty (neck & bridge), Seymour Duncan Vintage Rails (middle)
Controls: master volume, “tap/on” switch that acts as a push/pull coil tap for the neck and activation of the middle pickup, 3-way toggle switch
Extras: Canary-wood tremolo cavity cover plate, bone nut, matching truss-rod cover cut from same wood as the fret-board (black & white ebony).
So, I set out to build a semi-hollow body guitar with a tremolo. I decided to merge everything that I had come to love about my favorite guitars and build my own "signature" guitar.
Everything about this guitar is hand-made (in terms of the wood aspects). The neck was carved by had from 3 pieces of mahogany, then set deep into the semi-hollow Spanish cedar body. The fretboard is "Pale Moon Ebony" or "Black & White Ebony". The pattern was extraordinary when I spotted it at a local exotic hardwood store in Atlanta, GA. I had to have it for this build! The guitar body's top wood comes from a piece of Canary wood that was told to have been used on a crate that came from Mexico in the 1960's or 80's (came from the same exotic wood shop as the Ebony).
I chose to finish this project with Danish oil, since I wanted to preserve the natural qualities of the woods used and not have a shiny surface.
Again, I am quite happy with my first build and I am glad to be able to share it with you all!!!