I went on hiatus since 2022. I just... did not have the mental strength to build again. But lately, I felt discombobulated. Uneven. I had to make a guitar. So with leftover parts here and there, I made this. Actually... Just the fretboard and neck were "leftovers", the rest was all new. But hey, you gotta squeeze the narrative where necessary!
The top is roasted quilt maple, finished in electric tiger glow. The bodyback is Swamp Ash; NOT mahogany. I knew that swamp ash is sonically very similar to lightweight old growth mahogany, so I went with that. The neck is a bocote/maple/wenge/maple/bocote laminate, and the fretboard is rosewood with MoT trapezoid inlay, maple binding, 22 frets, 16" radius, stainless steel frets and luminlay side dots. The bridge and tailpiece are made by Graphtech. I will get new brass saddles without a notch, so I can properly align the strings. They are off just a scouche. That's because the neck pocket template slipped just a wee bit as I was milling the neck pocket. Oh well... Nothing that I cannot solve?
Gibson is not happy with me. I got a cease & desist letter from them, concerning trademark infringement. Really? I am NOT commercially active, I work by myself for myself. I do not accept customers, and... I'm in the EU.
Wait, wait wait! there's a meme about that:

even if I was commercially active you have no power here over me.
Okay. the guitar.




The red is so dark and deep, you can hardly see the grain, it's insane. I need to fix the nut height, I need to fix the saddle issue, I need to polish up some parts, and fix up some others. But this guitar is 99% done, and all the issues are not visible in the photos!
The neck by the way, is a baseball bat. it's 25mm tapering to 25.5 at the 12th fret. Oh, and the funny thing? The guitar weighs just 8 pounds.
As always, all done by hand and hand-tools, except the headstock overlay, that was done by laser.

The top is roasted quilt maple, finished in electric tiger glow. The bodyback is Swamp Ash; NOT mahogany. I knew that swamp ash is sonically very similar to lightweight old growth mahogany, so I went with that. The neck is a bocote/maple/wenge/maple/bocote laminate, and the fretboard is rosewood with MoT trapezoid inlay, maple binding, 22 frets, 16" radius, stainless steel frets and luminlay side dots. The bridge and tailpiece are made by Graphtech. I will get new brass saddles without a notch, so I can properly align the strings. They are off just a scouche. That's because the neck pocket template slipped just a wee bit as I was milling the neck pocket. Oh well... Nothing that I cannot solve?
Gibson is not happy with me. I got a cease & desist letter from them, concerning trademark infringement. Really? I am NOT commercially active, I work by myself for myself. I do not accept customers, and... I'm in the EU.
Wait, wait wait! there's a meme about that:

even if I was commercially active you have no power here over me.
Okay. the guitar.




The red is so dark and deep, you can hardly see the grain, it's insane. I need to fix the nut height, I need to fix the saddle issue, I need to polish up some parts, and fix up some others. But this guitar is 99% done, and all the issues are not visible in the photos!
The neck by the way, is a baseball bat. it's 25mm tapering to 25.5 at the 12th fret. Oh, and the funny thing? The guitar weighs just 8 pounds.
As always, all done by hand and hand-tools, except the headstock overlay, that was done by laser.
