I've been eyeing the DM-1F build for some time now, and finally pulled the trigger when one popped up in the Second and Specials menu. My money seems to be on a constant outflow now that this hobby has become and obsession, but what can I say, I love it.
Unfortunately I only have a couple of pictures of the build in its current state. My phone bit the dust over the weekend, and at some point the SD card had filled up and all pictures were going to internal memory, so they're gone. Below is what I have so far. I wanted to experiment this time with highlighting the flamed maple with black stain as the base. It's certainly not perfect, but I've learned a lot for the next time I want to attempt this.
It's going to look a little...off at the end. I wanted to change the bridge to an imitation Bigsby tremolo, but the posts are too far apart for a roller bridge. Instead I'm going to try and use a wrap-around bridge only for the saddles, we'll see if it looks too goofy to keep it that way. I picked up a black Wilkinson dog-eared P 90, but am now debating on using a cream colored P 90 for contrast against all the black hardware. Still more pondering to do there.
The next step is to add a little more red to the burst portion, right now it just looks black, but I want a nice onyx red, or just enough red that you see it in the sunlight. It'll get there though
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