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Bulwinkl
26th November 2008, 3.14 pm
Enjoy!
50+ year old maple and rosewood blanks were used, resulted in awesome sound even unplugged.
Two adjustable truss rods.
Fully adjustable custom bridge.
Neck-through.
Flat fingerboard (24 frets).
Zebrawood heastock top.
Custom mono single pickup (sounds great). Active/passive switch.
Knobs are for volume, lows and highs (lows and highs in active mode only)
Very comfortable for seated playing and nicely balanced for strap.
Currently tuned CGDA-ADGC.

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Upgrades on the way:
custom stereo humbucking pickup is being made at the very moment.
3 concentric pots ordered from allparts.
Some locking tuners and string trees (maybe)
Ivory nut.
Inlay on the 12th and maybe 7th and 17th.
Matching wood knobs and truss rod cover.
Make me know if you have an idea on what else to add!

My camera and my cameraman skills really suck. First pick shows the grain as it is, and the secong gives a really good idea of the actual color.

Sounds and videos as soon as I get it back from stereo pickup installation!

Tom Drinkwater
10th December 2008, 11.13 pm
Looks great!!!!

PhoBucket
11th December 2008, 4.32 pm
I like the custom wood pickup cover.

tjoemiller
10th April 2009, 7.12 pm
Did you make this yourself?

tjoe

Bulwinkl
8th July 2009, 1.57 am
no, a local luthier made it for me.

lactose
8th July 2009, 4.55 pm
Beautiful instrument. Are you used to playing without dot markers ?

Bulwinkl
9th July 2009, 3.10 am
I put some tape on 7th and 12th.

see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWYbwcI4SpI

gabrialorder
14th October 2010, 11.50 am
that looks great i really like it