Yo! All the pics and kudos Adam has been giving Dylan over here pushed me over the edge a couple months ago so I put down a deposit on a Daemoness. This thread is probably a bit premature as Dylan only ordered the wood yesterday and probably wont start cutting it for a while. So there's not gonna be alot of pics to share yet. But, aaaannnnyway...!
After chatting with Dylan on the phone we discovered we both dig Anime. I mentioned the movie 'Fist Of The North Star' and Dylan has since been educating me on the origins of the movie - 'Hokuto No Ken'. To say he has a huge hard on for HNK would be somewhat of an understatement
So we're going for a concept guitar built around a character called Souther: a sociopath that uses kids for slave labour who has renounced emotions and is an all round bad ass.
I went to Dylans shop yesterday to go over the details and play a couple of his guitars. I was originally going to go for the Cimmerian (RG/Strat) body that Adam, Roo and JBcrazy have gone for but after playing a black Atlantean he had in the shop I fell in love with the body shape, it feels great and has amazing balance. Plus it looks like a Klingon battle axe or a guitar Fred Flintstone would rock.
Woods are ash for the body with a maple quilt top. Maple neck and birds eye maple fingerboard. Quilt overlay on the headstock. Dylan was really accommodating with me when I was telling him how aesthetically I wanted the grain on the neck to be etc...
Hipshot hardware and Bare Knuckles (not sure which yet). I originally wanted to go H-S and Tim said he would wind single coils for a 7 string but I'm not sure if I want H-H or H-S now :s
It's gonna be a white wash like the Broderic LACS on the top and solid white on the back. Black binding up the neck and on the headstock. Gold hardware, gold decal (the decal looks very sexy) and even gold friggin frets. Dylans sourced some alloy or something for the frets.
Dylans already done some sick art for the fretboard inlay.
Going with the Kanji on the botom pic and the top image of Souther. The Kanji reads:
"Ai yue ni (because of love)
Hito wa kurushimaneba naran (people have to suffer)
Ai yue ni (because of love)
Hito wa kanashimaneba naran ( people have to feel sad)
ai yue ni (because of love)"
The Kanji on the fretboard is going to be in red. Souther is gonna be in blackline and have a few different materials in the inlay, brass, MOP, iron dust iirc (can't remember exactly what Dylan said). It's going to have his 'bloody cross' attack on the face of the guitar in opaque red. And art on the back of post apocalyptic buildings in black line. The trussrod cover is going to be ebony and getting his cross icon inlaid in mop.
I'm just a teeeeeny bit excited
Pat yourself on the back if you read all of that haha
After chatting with Dylan on the phone we discovered we both dig Anime. I mentioned the movie 'Fist Of The North Star' and Dylan has since been educating me on the origins of the movie - 'Hokuto No Ken'. To say he has a huge hard on for HNK would be somewhat of an understatement
So we're going for a concept guitar built around a character called Souther: a sociopath that uses kids for slave labour who has renounced emotions and is an all round bad ass.
I went to Dylans shop yesterday to go over the details and play a couple of his guitars. I was originally going to go for the Cimmerian (RG/Strat) body that Adam, Roo and JBcrazy have gone for but after playing a black Atlantean he had in the shop I fell in love with the body shape, it feels great and has amazing balance. Plus it looks like a Klingon battle axe or a guitar Fred Flintstone would rock.
Woods are ash for the body with a maple quilt top. Maple neck and birds eye maple fingerboard. Quilt overlay on the headstock. Dylan was really accommodating with me when I was telling him how aesthetically I wanted the grain on the neck to be etc...
Hipshot hardware and Bare Knuckles (not sure which yet). I originally wanted to go H-S and Tim said he would wind single coils for a 7 string but I'm not sure if I want H-H or H-S now :s
It's gonna be a white wash like the Broderic LACS on the top and solid white on the back. Black binding up the neck and on the headstock. Gold hardware, gold decal (the decal looks very sexy) and even gold friggin frets. Dylans sourced some alloy or something for the frets.
Dylans already done some sick art for the fretboard inlay.
Going with the Kanji on the botom pic and the top image of Souther. The Kanji reads:
"Ai yue ni (because of love)
Hito wa kurushimaneba naran (people have to suffer)
Ai yue ni (because of love)
Hito wa kanashimaneba naran ( people have to feel sad)
ai yue ni (because of love)"
The Kanji on the fretboard is going to be in red. Souther is gonna be in blackline and have a few different materials in the inlay, brass, MOP, iron dust iirc (can't remember exactly what Dylan said). It's going to have his 'bloody cross' attack on the face of the guitar in opaque red. And art on the back of post apocalyptic buildings in black line. The trussrod cover is going to be ebony and getting his cross icon inlaid in mop.
I'm just a teeeeeny bit excited
Pat yourself on the back if you read all of that haha
