This one had a complicated gestation. Ordered as a custom kit, it ended up with a different builder and an almost completely different set of hardware.
The bridge is Hipshot, bolted flat to the (scraped flat) body.
Pickups are Artec and the tuners are Jin Ho.
The pickup rings and truss rod cover are home made.
The control circuit is basically JB like with switches for single coil (bridge) and single coil/phase (neck).
The finish is natural, in Tru oil, with the exception of the engineered rosewood fingerboard which has been treated with a low viscosity epoxy primer and then lemon oil. It seemed to me that it only had very moderate flame in the top, so a spectacular finish wouldn't work well (and besides, that's not me). Oddly the flame in the maple is more visible in the photos than it is to my eyes.
Headstock decoration is a transfer on a background half veneer and half abalone, inlaid into the headstock.
Headstock profile is largely out of the box, but with the sharper corners radiused down to a GBR 10 pence piece.
Strings are Rotosound flats.
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