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I would definitely try to get a scrap/small piece of roasted flame maple to test on before getting dye/stain anywhere near that lovely neck. I don't have personal experience with it but I've heard that roasted maple doesn't take dye/stain the best

You could also use Birchwood Casey "Stock Sheen" which is their product designed to de-gloss Tru oil. Its a cream with some fine grit in it that you buff the finish with.

Jehovah!

Admittedly I'm a pearloid hater, but I really like that candy tangerine and orange pearl combo, bet they would look good with the flake finishes too!

I don't have a recommendation for specific products, but you will definitely want to use filler and likely multiple applications as wenge can have some pretty deep slots in the grain.

Unibroue

I don't have first hand experience with this, but that rear route cavity is quite large; I suspect that the four pots will fit

One from Mojotone, I think it was this one? https://www.mojotone.com/Humbucker-Short-Leg-Frame-Nickel-Silver-49-2mm

Vroom vroom! Looks fast!

Ooh, is that an inlay? A labrinlay?? An inlador??

Huh, interesting. I'm surprised that hear that either part (the Rutters or the body route) would be out of spec. On my builds with t-style bridges I've used modified Fender baseplates from this guy https://www.ebay.com/str/bridgeworks along with these Gotoh Wilkinson saddles

AI is always interesting to me, love it or hate it And you asked it some interesting questions, but the problem with using Chat GPT to make an "informed" decision is that it doesn't "know" anything; it just gobbles up whatever garbage that it finds around the internet (along with some...

I'd go vintage white or olympic. Totally personal but I find light yellow and cream kind of ugly

I'm liking the amp quite a bit! So my descriptions might be a bit different since I built it as a head and use is with a 2x12 cab, but: it has some clean headroom, maybe enough to keep up in a band setting as long as the drummer isn't a real heavy handed banger. It does start to break up fairly...