Here's something I've been slowly working on. The body is swamp ash, finished in trans yellow. The neck is quartersawn maple with bloody basin jasper inlays. The yellow and red color scheme is meant to capture the colors of the New Mexico flag. DangerousR6 also did up a great neck plate for me. The plate is the flag. The plate is brass, not plated mild steel, so the color shouldn't rub off like a lot of gold hardware does. I painted in the part Doug engraved using red paint, then clear coated it for preservation. The rest of the hardware is going to be black. Schaller Floyd Rose, Seymour Duncan Invader bridge pickup, DiMarzio Humbucker from Hell for the neck.
If you note the headstock, you'll note it is not a Warmoth offering. It was an Arrow headstock, which I did not really like. So, I cut it down to something I came up with, but it is heavily inspired by the headstock on one of my Ibanez guitars. Cut, sand, clear coat, sand. I was a bit worried at first, cutting into a headstock on a ready-to-mount neck, but I think it turned out OK.
Finally, some may wonder what the significance of New Mexico is. It is a long story, but suffice to say that although I live in California, my paternal ancestry traces to New Mexico, then back to the Basque country of Northern Spain.
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If you note the headstock, you'll note it is not a Warmoth offering. It was an Arrow headstock, which I did not really like. So, I cut it down to something I came up with, but it is heavily inspired by the headstock on one of my Ibanez guitars. Cut, sand, clear coat, sand. I was a bit worried at first, cutting into a headstock on a ready-to-mount neck, but I think it turned out OK.
Finally, some may wonder what the significance of New Mexico is. It is a long story, but suffice to say that although I live in California, my paternal ancestry traces to New Mexico, then back to the Basque country of Northern Spain.
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