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"Strat" influence...

Australian Blackwood body
Purpleheart neck
rosewood fretboard
Tonerider Vintage pickups
rotary switch with Bridge+Neck in position 3
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Re: Number 18

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nice, I'm really liking the blackwood tele I did, its a heavy bugger but it just sounds and looks great :) That looks rad :)
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Re: Number 18

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Im pretty happy with this...and a bit sad as its the last of this headstock design. I cannot get anymore Steinberger tuners so the next one will have a new headstock design with regular tuners.

The tone is bright - as you might expect and its light..just over 3 Kg.
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whats up with the tuners? did gibson buy the rights and close them down? Blackwwod from Ash = brother from another mother ;)
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yeah I think Gibson want them exclusive to the Firebird.

Chip off the old block :wink:
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plans are available, you could get an engineering company to run up another 18 sets :D If I had a lathe....
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Re: Number 18

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Lawrence wrote:
The tone is bright - as you might expect and its light..just over 3 Kg.
bright and light ... gee thats like the total opposite to one of the blackwood guitars I made which is Heavy as hell with a big fat slightly scooped sound. The second one I made I chambered it so it is light and actually you could say it has a bright sparkle to it but still with some fatness

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I'm liking the neck joint - nice job! I've got some blackwood I'm eventually looking to do a LP type thing. Best I chamber the crap out of it then!

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Very cool, great work. Nice to see something unique and different, I quite like that.

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Re: Number 18

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Lostininverness wrote:I'm liking the neck joint - nice job! I've got some blackwood I'm eventually looking to do a LP type thing. Best I chamber the crap out of it then!

Love the neck / body joint too.

I am making an Acasia Melanoxylon neck and it is not heavy at all. I suppose it depends where it was grown and which part of the tree you got...
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Wow!!!!!
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Re: Number 18

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thanks team.
I am currently working on Number 19....this has the new headstock and is being built with a view to selling...not sure how this will happen but you will hear about it here first.
I might start some "work in progress " shots to get you all salivating...
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