Steve Holt
Friend of Leo's
Well it's a new year, cancer treatments are over (knock on mahogany and rosewood) and it's time for a new build. A friend of mine has been pestering me endlessly for this one. Just kidding. He's here reading this, but he won't speak up so I have to tease him a bit.
I had surgery back in November and while I was furiously trying to finish up two builds before the slicing deadline I had this thought that I might be done building guitars. The satisfaction was waning. But after two months of going stir crazy the bug bit me again and I'm back in the shop loving every minute of it.
I had this concept in my head of a stratocaster with a mahogany body and thin rosewood top. And when you do the roundover the mahogany will come up and make a border around it giving it sort of a bound look. I planned a matching rosewood fretboard and mahogany neck. Then in the planning stages for my friends telecaster, he was going back and forth between different ideas when I pitched the same thing in a tele version, with some larger roundovers and an arm and belly contour. I really want that border to be apparent.
His request was all gold everything. That I can oblige. So we're gonna try gold humbucking gold foils. Because why not? I'd warn everyone though that it appears Jescar has discontinued the gold Evo fretwire while they search for a new manufacturer to make it. So it's getting scarce.
One change we made to my original plan was the fretboard. Because I love African blackwood so much I told him that he really needs a guitar with an AB Fretboard. It'll go great with the black pickguard too.
Now for the build.
Here you can see quality control inspecting the wood as always. We only use the best
The rest of these are just some shots of the wood I've got. I finally got a chance to try out the new drum sander too! And don't be surprised if you see a strat build sneaking into this thread. I just can't help myself.
I had surgery back in November and while I was furiously trying to finish up two builds before the slicing deadline I had this thought that I might be done building guitars. The satisfaction was waning. But after two months of going stir crazy the bug bit me again and I'm back in the shop loving every minute of it.
I had this concept in my head of a stratocaster with a mahogany body and thin rosewood top. And when you do the roundover the mahogany will come up and make a border around it giving it sort of a bound look. I planned a matching rosewood fretboard and mahogany neck. Then in the planning stages for my friends telecaster, he was going back and forth between different ideas when I pitched the same thing in a tele version, with some larger roundovers and an arm and belly contour. I really want that border to be apparent.
His request was all gold everything. That I can oblige. So we're gonna try gold humbucking gold foils. Because why not? I'd warn everyone though that it appears Jescar has discontinued the gold Evo fretwire while they search for a new manufacturer to make it. So it's getting scarce.
One change we made to my original plan was the fretboard. Because I love African blackwood so much I told him that he really needs a guitar with an AB Fretboard. It'll go great with the black pickguard too.
Now for the build.
Here you can see quality control inspecting the wood as always. We only use the best
The rest of these are just some shots of the wood I've got. I finally got a chance to try out the new drum sander too! And don't be surprised if you see a strat build sneaking into this thread. I just can't help myself.
