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I know I shouldn't do this but I am what I am.... :D
Rob shared with me,after some prodding ,his new build.You guys here are great builders,but this just blew me away..
I'm hoping Rob will share a couple of pictures of his latest build..Not a slot car but way cool..It is one of the coolest axes I've seen.I'll leave the pictures up to him..
Rusty

Oh?

Why wasn't I notified?!!! :naughty:

Ok whippersnapper, lets see it.

Whoa...that’s hot. Well done sir.

OK Rob, now who's going to record some riffs so we can hear it in action? Perhaps a rendition of George Harrison's 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'?

Slothead

Beautiful work Rob! But im think EC,s "crossroads".

Bob

Great guitar Rob! Nicely equipped too. What kind of tuners did you use?

They are locking tuners, Ken. I can't help it- I'm going to go on and on about this...

By the time I was gathering the last bits and bobs for this thing, I was going first class no matter what. So, they are British locking tuners, I forgot the name already. They are amazing. You want to restring the guitar again, its so much fun. Did you see the tiny switches on the triple-shot rings? Series/parallel/in phase/out of phase plus 4 more positions, all on double dual pickups. That neck is one piece solid rosewood and I carved the profile and radius for my hand. The wood is hard enough that there is no finish on it at all. The headstock is made from the same block as the neck, and the trussrod is side access. The frets are stainless steel with my own pyramidal profile, and the inlay is natural pearl. The nut is Tusq. The body is chambered as much as I could while keeping it strong enough to do its job. Any tone just rings forever. Much longer than an acoustic. Like I say, I decided to go full-on Cadillac on it, no matter how long it took to afford the pieces one at a time and put it all together. I'm only going to do this once (I'm 67), and this is it for me. Of all the instruments I made over the years from dulcimers to banjos to guitars, they have all been acoustic. This thing was complicated! It was going to be this, or a harp. But it was a lot of fun, even if I had to study and consult an electrical engineer when I did custom wiring on the push-pull pots and 5 position switch.

Hey Bob, I'm hoping to learn Robert Johnson's Crossroads, and an old New Orleans bluesy version of St. James Infirmary. I have an eye on some good ol' Leon Redbone stuff from the 1920s, too. "Big Chief Buffalo Nickel", "My Walking Stick", etc.