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Ziegenfuss
PostPosted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 7:01 am 
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Well, this is my latest and best effort to date. My take on a Les Paul with some of the same playability features I use on my bass guitars. Though not quite a shredder, the only road this things has covered has been the Highway to Hell....Anyway, I was born in 1983 :)

African Mahogany back
soft curly maple top (from Michigan)
flamed/birdseye hard maple neck
Coco FB, veneers, transition block
natural unfinished maple bindings
PRS vintage bass neck pup
PRS HFS bridge pup
3-way, independent tone and volume for each pup, coil tapping option
Cat-poly finish

Hope you enjoy it...


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Terence Kennedy
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Beautiful! Did you do the finish? If so what is it and how did you do the burst?
Nice job
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Wow Steve this is a gorgeous guitar!!!!

The headstock shape is very cool too with a wild look that I like.

And I was wondering about the finish too?

Beautiful work my friend. [:Y:] [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap]
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Yes, I did the finish ( I am still saving my pennies to get a Joe White :))

It is my second attempt at cat poly, and I sprayed and sanded off the whole bit or major parts about 11 times. I am finding that the work to get a properly thin finish without any mistakes is quite extensive...but worth it. I figure in about 5 more guitars it might be respectable from every single angle of the guitar...

The colorant is a mixture of Transtints - first applied in a multistep process to the bare wood, and then mixed with the initial coats (2) of poly to achieve the bursted appearance. I can go into explicit, possibly more helpful, detail if you would like.

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Wow ! Nice job Steve ! I like the burst too and your cutaway and headstock
shapes are very cool. [:Y:]

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Steve that is awesome. Great job.

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One more picture that I really like...

Thanks so much...I have an .mp3 of Lance playing it, but I promised that I would post no footage...


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That is way cool. Beautiful work. [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap]

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I really like the style of shading.
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Very nice!

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Could we see a shot of the back of the heel area? Looking really nice, I like your headstock shape, it's similar to one I use.
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Nice Job, you do splendid work. Shred on.

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