Alder body, wenge neck

[briny001]

Explorer style wenge/ebony neck with scalloped fretboard and stainless steel frets.  Grover locking tuners.
Two-piece alder Strat body.  I used Minwax ebony stain on the body, and it matches the neck fairly well.
It's got a Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates with a push/pull pot for series/parallel.  Hipshot hardtail bridge.
I doweled one of the holes in the neck joint and shaped the heal like Fender's contoured heal.

These pictures were taken with a cell phone camera, so the quality isn't that great...

 

[Xplorervoodoo]

Gorgeous!  Man I'd like to try a scalloped board anyway, but a scalloped ebony board would be a dream... :kewlpics:

 

[sundin4prez]

can you geta picture of the whole guitar ????  it looks killer

 

[briny001]

Oh, yeah... forgot to add:  it weighs about 6-7 lbs. and the finish is automotive clearcoat (my friend used to be a painter in the local Ford dealership's body shop).  In person, it looks like glass.

 

[TroubledTreble]

Very Cool !! I like the minimalist approach. With a setup like that, it definatley comes down to fingers.

Congrats on the fine build!    :hello2:

-TT-

 

[jalbertochavez]

Pretty cool. Is that your first scalloped neck?

 

[briny001]

Yeah, it's my first scalloped neck.  It'll probably be my last, too, not because I don't like it, but because it's so expensive, and you can only get it in the 25.5" scale.  I favor the Gibson scale.  It's kind of funny because I usually don't like tall frets, but I really like the feel of the scalloped board.

 

[vegababy]

It's got a Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates with a push/pull pot for series/parallel.

What's the sound difference between series and parallel ?