NGD- Custom ordered guitar

[Archer250]

Aaand it's here. Nothing much to say except I haven't been able to put it down for long. Great feeling and great sounding guitar. Flawless fretwork, extremely clear and articulate pickups, thick yet cutting tone, perfect weight balance... yum

I just put KTS Titanium string locking blocks on it too. It does make some difference in sound, but at least I won't have to worry about the blocks giving way to heavy trem usage.

Finalized specs yielded pretty good results:

Body:Chambered Mahogany tone block with Ash wings
Top: Quilted Maple
Neck shaft: Hard rock maple
Fingerboard wood: Pau ferro
Fingerboard radius: 12"
Neck profile: C
Neck thickness at 1st Fret: 0.88
Neck thickness at 12th fret: 0.96"
Fret size: Jescar 57110 stainless
Bridge: Gotoh 1996T
Pickups: B/M/N: 16.4k A5, 6.37k A5, 7.5k A5

 

[Demanic]

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Nice. Love the spalted pick guard.

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[GuitarStv]

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What does the switch between the knobs do?


I like how the top of the headstock looks like the Thundercats logo.

 

[Archer250]

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What does the switch between the knobs do?


I like how the top of the headstock looks like the Thundercats logo.

It changes the middle position to N+B from the middle single coil when activated. Mostly for cleans.

Nice. Love the spalted pick guard.

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Thanks!

 

[Mincer]

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Congrats on a totally unique guitar. I like the way you think.

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

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Wow man, it's beautiful. How did you come up with the design? Looks like a marriage between RG652 nebula green burst and FGN Odyssey. b

 

[jeremy]

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looks great! the guard looks nice with that color body. interesting headstock

 

[Archer250]

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Wow man, it's beautiful. How did you come up with the design? Looks like a marriage between RG652 nebula green burst and FGN Odyssey. b

Congrats on a totally unique guitar. I like the way you think.

I stole the idea of a maple topped guitar with a spalted maple pickguard from a limited run Suhr made a while back. Those came with burled maple tops and exotic neck/fingerboard woods, but I kinda envisioned "hmm what if I used more traditional superstrat combos, like quilted maple + rosewood that Ibanez does"

And thus I went to the luthier with that in mind.

 

[brentrocks]

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BEAUTIFUL!

 

[GuitarStv]

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Having the pickguard level with the rest of the guitar body looks really cool too.

 

[Archer250]

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Well, I found out that the wiring was not done to my specs, and that the springs were scraping the back of the guitar cavity

Thankfully, the builders took it back and fixed everything free of charge.

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[greekdude]

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Nice guitar man! B+N should handle those tele tonez!
Interesting what you say about the KTS locks.
How does it do in the sustain dept?

 

[Archer250]

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Nice guitar man! B+N should handle those tele tonez!
Interesting what you say about the KTS locks.
How does it do in the sustain dept?

I don't feel like they added any sustain tbh, but they do add clarity and presence. Not the biting, ear-splitting presence, but more "cut", if I were to put it

 

[Masta' C]

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Just realized the pickguard is recessed into the body...WOW! That's classy as hell!

 

[GuitarStv]

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Just realized the pickguard is recessed into the body...WOW! That's classy as hell!

Yeah, that's my favorite part of the whole build!

 

[NegativeEase]

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Nice, not my thing, but damn that finish and detail! What an awesome guitar.

also, what kind of strap buttons are those? and why don't all guitar's have those size rims? I could really go to war with those.

 

[Archer250]

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Nice, not my thing, but damn that finish and detail! What an awesome guitar.

also, what kind of strap buttons are those? and why don't all guitar's have those size rims? I could really go to war with those.

Those are Gotoh strap buttons, they're similar in size to those found on Japanese Ibanezes.

 

[Masta' C]

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All my guitars have Gotoh oversized strap buttons...love 'em!

 

[BobaFret]

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That looks amazing, like a raft or pier on the water, and the recessed pickguard puts it over the top

 

[donaldr]

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Just realized the pickguard is recessed into the body...WOW! That's classy as hell!

Yeah, that's my favorite part of the whole build!

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