Beautiful Guitar Thread

File under: Finishes that you could dive into.
http://www.prsguitars.com/privatestock/img/slider/2.jpg

wow Pablo that is one amazing PRS ! Incredible flame top !

Agreed. You could dive into that. It looks so much like water rippling.

Beautiful guitar. I so wish I knew how to achieve this. My feeble attempts at popping the grain fall woefully short.

cheers,
Gav.

@ Gav I'd say the cap he has to start with has amazing figure. Much more than the PBG kits, I think with practice and a really high grade flame maple cap we can achieve close to this finish

That looks more like a quilted maple to me, which I think accounts for most of the difference between finishes you get for flame maple. Could be wrong though, not a wood-spotter ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilt_maple

Looks great though

Lovely! (provided it is real wood, not some simulacra - the plastic trim/buttons on my Logitech gaming mouse has a sort of optical effect not dissimilar to that which appears much deeper than it really is). This one is similar I think (perhaps not quite those amazingly long waves that top has - and the obviously different pickups)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP69Xb2lO9I

Similar. A Custom 24 will set you back 2-4k depending on the top. This guy
http://www.prsguitars.com/privatesto.../img/1663b.jpg
is PRS Private Stock #1663. Private stock guitars are in the 15-30k range. Damn.

I'm sure this is genuine quilted maple, but some cheaper guitar companies were (in the 90's at least) using a rippled plastic sheet under the clear finish to achieve this effect. (So I'm told anyway)

These do appear on another thread, but deserve to be here in their own right. And made by DB himself!
http://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-con...AtfXxUKFi9.jpg
http://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-con...kL02OU-zGo.jpg