Glad you are enjoying the new guitar Ben
The transition between paint and wood is actually a lot more seamless than it looks .
We worked a long time to get a blend from the paint to the oil finished neck - you cant actually sense the join at all when you are playing.
Not something I am keen on doing too often as it is v time consuming
The neck profile is very nice and compact - which is what Ben requested as he doesnt have Steve Vai size hands.
It has Dunlop 6000 frets big! but they are so well blended in you hardly notice their size
The neck feel was based on a LP custom that Tim has, and also the stripped neck.
The paint has a slight green tint to it - you see it more in reality than shows up in photographs
We were trying to shoot for that colour that the silverbursts develop after 25+ years
Relicing isn't something that I am any good at - there are some guys ho are amazing at that
I don't think we got that quite as it would look on a 30 year old guitar but the colour has it's own thing going on and looks brilliant - slightly minty!
That seems to work well with the green abalone in the inlays.
Next week I hope to get Johnny Mac's back from the paintshop and be getting that assembled :D
