MoonJelly
a subtle stinging sensation..
Where is that? Kinda looks like Utah/Tatooine.View attachment 60569
Seven-String Baritone I built over 20 years ago. You cant' tell from the photo but the fretboard is a rich purple color (purpleheart wood). The body is old-growth redwood (sequoia) sandwiched between two fascias of palmwood. Custom Benedetto pickup (wow that Benedetto is one awesome and squared-away individual), ebony tuning knobs. The accents (pickup ring and headstock inlay) are a very green colored wood from an 18th century shipwreck. Bridge was custom made by a machinist in Santa Barbara California, don't know if he ever got up to manufacturing them in larger quantities, great bridge kinda similar to Babicz bridges in engineering. Strings through body. Neck through body in the "joinery" construction I use where there's a big kerf down the back and the neck slides into it, so from the back it looks like your standard neck-throuigh approach but the body covers the neck in the front. I'll post some photos of the construction when I build some more guitars, if anyone is interested. Headstock is joined with long finger joints so the headstock angle can be quite steep with zero chance of breakage. Neck is plantation East Indian Rosewood, which is a real pleasure to work with. The construction favors epic sustain and lots of "woodiness" in the tone.
Started a new luthier enterprise recently, but this time with the most excellent and skilled (and fantastically attractive young lady) apprentice/business partner, not my bull-in-a-china shop stoner dickhead former brother in law like when I made this thing. Yeah he did steal my superb antique drawknife so I have to find another drawknife for shaping necks.