That's pretty stunning! Beautiful finish, though body-matching veneer on the headstock would have really set it off.
We would have done if the guitar was originally going to be a natural finish, but the guitar was originally going to be solid red. (A bit like the V that Annihilator's Jeff waters plays)
The maple was used for tonal reasons.
We had to buy some that was big enough to get the v out of and it turned out that we ended up using some that had been selected for acoustic guitar backs
Now we would not have chosen such a pretty piece of wood to go under a solid colour for many reasons - a major one being cost of the wood.
But this piece had a mineral stain streak running through it that made it all but unsell-able to acoustic guitar makers who would want an unblemished piece so we got it for the same price as a plain piece (result!)
Once we had cleaned it up and put it on the V there was hardly any mineral stain visible (you can just see a little on the tip of each fin if you look carefully), but the grain in the wood was lovely .
Once the customer we built it for saw the wood, he had a change of heart over the colour and decided to go for a more classic colour scheme - the result of which you see here
