Hey Guys, Lyn #11 has just been started. For the more astute forumites who are keeping count and wondering what happened to Lyn #10?
Bret, very good friend of mine has played one of my guitars and asked if I could make him one. So Lyn #11 has become my first "commission" and will get most of my attention and jumps up the queue. But fear not, #10 is an ongoing project that I started a few months ago and has now been put on hold until I finish #11.
Bret is a lefty and apparently left-handed guitars are not real thick on the ground, so when I offered to make him one he jumped at the chance. He’s always wanted a TL style guitar. Apart from all the Fenders and MusicMans (MusicMen?) guitars he has owned, one of his favourites was a rather expensive Jackson neck-through with a reversed headstock, so when I offered him a once only chance of a reversed headstock he decided to go with that. The only downside to that decision is that now I will have his lefty neck in my right-handed TL. Who needs fretboard side dots anyway? lol.
Anyway I have just put on a coat of F&W stain and started on the "naughty oil". Apart from the reversed headstock this will be a pretty standard/traditional build so I will just put up a few happy snaps now and then.
Mods:
Gotoh 6 saddle (string through body) bridge
Tonerider Pups
CTS pots and Orange Drop Cap
Abalone fret markers
Bone Nut.
Cheers guys
rob
Pic 1 Body stained
Pic 2 Halfway through 1st coat of “naughty oil”
Pic 3 Reversed headstock
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