Thanks guys - always nice to get some feedback.
Was playing the new beast earlier and it does that John Sykes thing with all the harmonic squealing too
Great fun!
Yes the top is birdseye maple - or rather it is plain Canadian rock maple that happened to have some birdseyes in it by accident. It was going to be a solid colour guitar (metallic green flake) but I decided that the wood would look interesting enough with a translucent green.
Here she is without paint:

The next Lions that will be coming back from the paintshop will be Johnny Mac's and Catalyst77's
Johnny's will be a honey-burst over that wicked flametop and Catalyst (Ben Martin) will have a silverburst like a late 70s Gibbo