Was gonna keep this stuff classified, but I cant stand it! New legra woods...

[CaptainDesslock]

haha so much for that GRAND UNVEILING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we talked about :)

[MDV]

haha so much for that GRAND UNVEILING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we talked about :)

:lol:

Indeed.

I changed my mind. *shrug*. The finished guitar will still be plenty unvielable. Its hard to picture the finished article from this lot anyway (or thats what I've been struggling with for a few weeks now!)

[CaptainDesslock]

haha so much for that GRAND UNVEILING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we talked about :)

:lol:

Indeed.

I changed my mind. *shrug*. The finished guitar will still be plenty unvielable. Its hard to picture the finished article from this lot anyway (or thats what I've been struggling with for a few weeks now!)

lol, well compared to yours I'd almost feel bad mine has such "normal" wood if it wasn't for the fact it was painted )

[ailean]

Ok, I'm late to this party, all I can say is, WOW! Mark you are going to be one happy bunny when that thing is finished :) I guess you'll be taking some time off work around the delivery day?

[Roobubba]

Fantastic!

Oh, you should have seen the diabolical pictures I drew when designing my axe with Wez! Those are positively beautiful!

Although I can't help feeling it should have fanned frets :)

:D

Roo

[dheim]

you could paint it in fluo pink. or yellow. with a black plastic pickguard. and furry pink knobs (i hope someone ever invented furry knobs). it would look great this way.

 :P

phil's idea is not bad, not at all... you could call it "the scream"...

[MDV]

Thanks guys :D

No fanned frets, and 25.5 scale. I did as much looking as I could, and I dont figure the scale is the dominant factor in the tightness. String tension (which is related to scale of course, but it aint one and the same) and your playing and amp are the biggest things, as far as I can tell. The MDV602 (current legra) is tighter than most baritones I can find clips of, and this is gonna be tighter sounding still :twisted:

So I went with 25.5 to keep familiar playbility (I do quite a bit of reach stuff on low frets as well, so it could amputate some of my playing too) and in case I ever want to tune back up to, well, something else, thats not drop A#.

[MDV]

you could paint it in fluo pink. or yellow. with a black plastic pickguard. and furry pink knobs (i hope someone ever invented furry knobs). it would look great this way.

 :P

phil's idea is not bad, not at all... you could call it "the scream"...

No Dheim! Bad Dheim!

[Johnny Mac]

you could paint it in fluo pink. or yellow. with a black plastic pickguard. and furry pink knobs (i hope someone ever invented furry knobs). it would look great this way.

 :P

phil's idea is not bad, not at all... you could call it "the scream"...

No Dheim! Bad Dheim!

What about a ZZ Top beard finish? You could save some dough and make from an old pub table. Sling a bucket of Copydex over it then kick it along the floor of a Barbers Shop at around 5:00pm on a Saturday afternoon. Viola!

[MDV]

:lol: Jonny, have you been playing with your koch again? You know how overexcited you get!

What about Aurora?

[MrBump]

Looking forward to seeing that, Mark - Bob makes a damn fine geetar...

What's the ETA?

[Roobubba]

Thanks guys :D

No fanned frets, and 25.5 scale. I did as much looking as I could, and I dont figure the scale is the dominant factor in the tightness. String tension (which is related to scale of course, but it aint one and the same) and your playing and amp are the biggest things, as far as I can tell. The MDV602 (current legra) is tighter than most baritones I can find clips of, and this is gonna be tighter sounding still :twisted:

So I went with 25.5 to keep familiar playbility (I do quite a bit of reach stuff on low frets as well, so it could amputate some of my playing too) and in case I ever want to tune back up to, well, something else, thats not drop A#.

Yeah, makes sense :)
Plus if everyone started getting multiscale guitars, mine wouldn't be such a novelty any more ;)

Can't wait to see how this pans out!

Roo

[MDV]

Thanks guys :D

No fanned frets, and 25.5 scale. I did as much looking as I could, and I dont figure the scale is the dominant factor in the tightness. String tension (which is related to scale of course, but it aint one and the same) and your playing and amp are the biggest things, as far as I can tell. The MDV602 (current legra) is tighter than most baritones I can find clips of, and this is gonna be tighter sounding still :twisted:

So I went with 25.5 to keep familiar playbility (I do quite a bit of reach stuff on low frets as well, so it could amputate some of my playing too) and in case I ever want to tune back up to, well, something else, thats not drop A#.

Yeah, makes sense :)
Plus if everyone started getting multiscale guitars, mine wouldn't be such a novelty any more ;)

Can't wait to see how this pans out!

Roo

Well, a multiscale was never what I wanted anyway, so ner :P

It'll be 8 to 10 weeks as the optimistic-realistic lead time.

Do I hear a second for "Aurora"?

And against?

[dheim]

aurora is a great name.
or eos, that's the same in greek, but it would sound like a camera, then...

up up aurora!

[PhilKing]

5pc through:
1/3 meranti
1/6 maple
1/6 walnut
1/6 maple
1/3 meranti

is is me or does this add up to 7/6's!  I guess it is really
1/3 meranti
1/9 maple
1/9 walnut
1/9 maple
1/3 meranti

Other than that I am sure it will look great, though I'm never sure about lots of laminates because of all the glue (it is probably a leftover from when all the cheap guitars were plywood!).