Official Bowes Guitars Thread - Works In Progress

[canuck brian]

Been a LOOONG time without an update, so i'll do it properly.

Here's one that's almost complete and the first one i've had professionally clear coated. More coming!

26 inch scale, 25 frets
cocobolo fretboard
black limba core
grafted walnut cap and headstock
BK Aftermaths
Petrucci 3 way
all hipshot hardware

 

[canuck brian]

26 inch scale
25 frets
scallops 12-25
Blaze bridge and Evo neck
All Hipshot hardware
Petrucci 3 way wired (bridge / bridgeinnercoil+neckinnercoil / neck)
1 piece swamp ash body
5 piece neck - 3 piece figured roasted maple + ebony stringers w/ ash headstock
ebony fretboard

 

[TDR]

That heel & cutaway look so ....ing comfortable, not to mention the axes look amazeballs.

No constructive posting here, just drooling

 

[MrYakob]

That heel & cutaway look so ....ing comfortable, not to mention the axes look amazeballs.

No constructive posting here, just drooling

Heel? What heel!

But for real, it is one of the most comfortable designs I've ever played. Total upper fret access

Nice to see some more pron from you Brian!

 

[skeels]

Looking totally awesome, CB!

I think you need to contact the Canadian Post, though, because I have not received a single guitar yet.

 

[darren]

Man, i love how ash looks on carved tops!

 

[Bill Stickers]

Finished this one up earlier tonight. It's mine. ALL MINE.

30 Inch scale
25 frets, 12 - 25 scalloped
zirocote fretboard
swamp ash body and headstock
figured roasted maple and purpleheart neck
Hipshot hardware
graphtech nut
Petrucci 3 way
Bareknuckle Aftermaths w/ gold bolts

That there is Hulk. God's are puny to it.

...you need the rest of the Avengers now.

 

[canuck brian]

Hi guys,

almost done this one so i thought i'd get the thread on it started.

Bookmatched figured ash top and solid figured ash headstock
Figured massaranduba neck with roasted figured maple stringers and ebony insert
1 piece roasted ash back
ebony fretboard
wenge ferrule ...holder?
26 inch scale, 25 frets, scalloped 12 - 25
2 x Custom matched Nordstrand humbuckers
"Petrucci" 12 pole 3 way....that sounds so wrong.
1 volume
Threaded output jack w/ yamaha/jem/whatever cutaway
Monocoat "citron" finish

 

[canuck brian]

Just put #15 in the can.

SFLx7
26 inch scale, 25 frets, 12 - 25 half scalloped
Bookmatched cocobolo top
Solid rosewood core
Rosewood neck with figure maple stringers
Cocobolo fretboard
Rosewood headstock with cocobolo cap
Seymour Duncan Pegasus and Sentient pickups
All Hipshot hardware
Petrucci 3 way
Pushbutton Killswitch
3 mm Luminlay side indicators

 

[BlackMastodon]

The fretboard and headstock cap on that are ridonculous.

 

[mphsc]

That whole guitar is beautiful!

 

[Cloudy]

Cant wait to have this beauty in my hands

 

[Xaios]

I'm actually kind of ambivalent on the front, it's not really my style. But OH MAN, DAT BACK!

 

[Fiction]

Man, the attention to detail is crazy, especially with the fretboard blending into the headstock. Can you post some pics on the in stock you posted about on Facebook?

 

[Cloudy]

I believe this is the in-stock fiction.

 

[kruneh]

That is one stunning instrument!
Gotta love that neck, and while I´ve always loved the inline Bowes headstock it looks even better with those tuner buttons.
LSR tuners were always kinda tricky, they worked some time, didn´t work the next time, but the Hipshots should do the trick.

 

[canuck brian]

Hi guys,

This one is totally finished yet (tuners dont' have the lock down screw drilled yet so they're not lined up yet), so the pics look like they're taken with a potato. The better ones will be coming once i do the music store test and have way better lighting.

I can't photograph this thing worth a poop, hence the flash on/flash off pics.

This one comes in at under 6 pounds fully loaded.

SFLx7
25 frets, 12-25 scalloped, 26 inch scale
Tigerwood fretboard
Figured Myrtlewood top on black limba core
Lightly figured maple neck with dyed green maple stringers
Battleworn gold camo BK Aftermaths
Petrucci 3 way
3 mm Luminlay indicators









Group shot! Doing fretwork on #C014 in case you're wondering why it's all taped up.

 

[Cloudy]

Jesus those three look amazing, can't wait to have the cocobolo shred machine here with me

 

[Durero]

Oh my god those are amazing!

The cocobolo one is just sexy as f**k

 

[Riley]

Awesome work! Were the neck laminates died before or after shaping the neck?