Yep! I just need to wire it up and it's out the door. This week has turned into a test of my sanity in almost every facet of my life so I'm hoping I get everything done!
Pry's guitar is current eating up the first coat of tung oil and should be getting it's 2nd and 3rd coats today. When I get up to the 8th coat, she'll be all ready to go! Hopefully Hipshot gets my order of stuff here soon!
Also wanted to give an update on the 7 string run coming up. I've been trying to get everything done for the end of June to start the run, but I've had to restart a build for a customer twice due to issues with them and getting everything ready to roll with the fretboards on the CNC has backed me up about 3 weeks.
SO! At this time, I'm hoping to fill the 6 available slots for ***7 string guitars ONLY*** starting Friday June 22. I'll take the first 6 emails that I receive to my bowesguitars@gmail.com account on that date (yes, you can email at 12:01 AM June 22) on a first come first serve basis. I can't create a waiting list for builds just due to the fact that I want to be able to interact and give ALL of my attention to those 6 customers.
If you want a reminder email regarding the run, shoot an email to bowesguitars@gmail.com and I'll make sure you get an email about it. Once I've received the first 6 emails, i'll contact those people directly and arrange for the deposit. If i can't get a hold of you and arrange the deposit in 48 hours, I'll move onto the next person in line who emailed.
Deposits will be $250 CDN and the deposit WILL ONLY be used to buy wood and electronics, not seed anything else. Guitars requiring Bareknuckle Pickups will require a deposit of $400 and guitars requiring Nordstrand Pickups (the big assed 1/4 pole humbuckers!) require a deposit of $350. Stock pickups are Dimarzio pickups and I will not be offering Seymour Duncan pickups. You are more than welcome to send me Duncans if you want and I'll discount the price of the guitar by $100.
The guitars will all be built together in stages so as to not have one person's guitar ahead of another one. Any flaws that come up in production of your guitar will require a complete rebuild - no exceptions. I'm not putting out guitars with things covered up or compromised.
All of my guitars have the upper 12-25 frets scalloped on the top 3 strings.
The estimated time for completion on these guitars is 4 months.
There are a few bodies that are already completed from the CNC. I'll post the ones that are completed on here and Facebook. If you want one of those, I'll knock $50 off the price of your guitar. I have enough 1 piece ash blanks for at least 30 guitars and we've already cut one for a 7 string. It looks great. There is also a solid 1 piece figured maple body that is also available at this time.
I should have some decent pics tonight or Wednesday of Sepultorture's guitar and Pry's guitar. Both turned out really well and I'm really hoping that they dig them as much as I enjoyed building them.
