It is based on the classic singlecut archtop design with a few tweaks to improve (in my opinion) on the original
The body is a nice slab of dense mahogany with plain maple top
The neck is a 3 piece splice (for strength and resistance to twisting), with a 2 way truss rod and an ebony board
We have a small volute for extra strength as well
The neck joint is our usual all access joint (with a long deep tenon) that makes top frets easy to reach
Frets are Dunlop 6000 - big but great feeling
Inlays are pretty Mother of Pearl blocks and black tahiti pearl side dots in the binding
Features an Earvana Compensated tuning nut, which sweetens the tuning
Sperzel machines and Tonepros bridge and tailpiece
Pickups are BKP Cold Sweats in Duncan Tripleshot rings
We were trying to get the Mary Kay see thru white finish
Sometimes the wood looks white and in other light you get a bit more colour of the timber coming through
The finish colour was the customer's idea
I knew it could be done , and we did it on a tester first
But I rejected a lot of tries to get it right before I was happy we had it right
I just wanted a certain amount of transparency/opaqueness - which we got right in the end
I drove my paint guys mad in the meantime
Here is the finished result :
The black pearl side inlay dots look like they light up under certain lighting
Of course it has my all access neck joint.
The neck is a nice big '59 spec neck but top fret access is still easy
