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[Jay]

That looks stunning! The chillies in the background looks great too.

Thanks. The chillies will be turned into sambal badjak soon.

I can report that the final weight of the finished guitar is 2885 grams which is about 6.35 pounds. It feels nicely balanced, either sitting or standing.

Now I need a gear tester to provide unbiased feedback on how it feels, plays and sounds

[StrummersOfThunder]

Thanks, glad you and I chose that antique violin colour scheme

It is a semi hollow body, there is a 100mm wide center piece all the way through. The tele neck pickups are always mounted on a pick guard so one can adjust the height. I could not see any other way of mounting that pickup without a pickup mounting ring unless I had made it a full hollow body. Then it would have potentially been possible.

Great stain

Re: pickup I’m not sure I follow. Could you not have just put rubber spacers behind it and screwed into the centre block rather than spacers in from of it and screwing up into the ring ? Tele neck pickup would be about 7.5cm wide between screws ?

True, but that tele pickup is has a nasty triangle shape and I did not want that pickup base exposed, only the lipstick bit iykwim.

Matter of personal taste I guess. The exposed triangle routes never worried me on teles without guards. I think it’d look better than the black ring guard thing but just my 2c

[codedog]

That looks stunning! The chillies in the background looks great too.

Thanks. The chillies will be turned into sambal badjak soon.

I can report that the final weight of the finished guitar is 2885 grams which is about 6.35 pounds. It feels nicely balanced, either sitting or standing.

Now I need a gear tester to provide unbiased feedback on how it feels, plays and sounds

Nice and light... plenty of capacity for a wiggle stick

[StrummersOfThunder]

That looks stunning! The chillies in the background looks great too.

Thanks. The chillies will be turned into sambal badjak soon.

I can report that the final weight of the finished guitar is 2885 grams which is about 6.35 pounds. It feels nicely balanced, either sitting or standing.

Now I need a gear tester to provide unbiased feedback on how it feels, plays and sounds

Nice and light... plenty of capacity for a wiggle stick

Oh behave !

[robthemac]

That looks stunning! The chillies in the background looks great too.

Rocoto chilis?

[KNNZ]

so much talent!!! looks awesome Jean!!

[Jay]

That looks stunning! The chillies in the background looks great too.

Rocoto chilis?

Yip, perennial. This is the 3rd year producing now. Makes for a lovely chilly paste (sambal).

You like Small Antique Violin?

I was going for this effect:

[robthemac]

That looks stunning! The chillies in the background looks great too.

Rocoto chilis?

Yip, perennial. This is the 3rd year producing now. Makes for a lovely chilly paste (sambal).

You like Small Antique Violin?

I was going for this effect:

Not gonna lie, Jean: I don't see the resemblance between the small antique violin and the rocoto chilis.

[Cdog]

Wot they said.. . Stunning!

[kdawg2a]

Beautiful work Jean. Send it to Christchurch (in 5 days!), I'd be happy to give it an unbiased run through!