Introducing one of the longest builds ever. This guitar in a sense started over 12 years ago with the first custom Jeff was going to create for me that was going to hold Variax guts in a conventional guitar that also had passive pickups. Well, Jeff accidentally routed the body for dual humbuckers but the pickups were S/S/H and that turned out to be a lucky event for me because it set us up for doing a second guitar! The natural progression of the second guitar ended up with a completely different set of pickups so that means those original pickups are almost vintage by now - heh. It was finally going when the credit crunch wiped me out back in 2009 so everything was put on hold until recently. I just got some new pictures of progress Jeff made over the weekend (getting the top carved). Next up sanding and attaching the neck.
The body is Korina (Black Limba) so it's nice and light (less then half the weight of my last custom, the Gaudy Paul, now owned by our own Space Cowboy - that body was made of wenge). The neck is mahogany with a maple fretboard and the top is Master Grade (above AAAAA) curly maple. It's called the Red Rocker because the top will end up being red (the exact shade is still TBD), however this is a PhotoShop test:
Can't wait!
