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MDV

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Its more than your average neck!!

No, its not you, I just made a n00b error.

Auroras a leading contender so far...

dheim

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i'm starting to think i should give my guitars some name, after all... i keep calling them with numbers. and the worst part is that they never answer.
Mule, MQ, Stockholm, CS, RY, MM, PK, ANB, CNB, AWP, CWP, PiG90...

too many? ;)

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Its officially called Aurora :D

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I was gunna say call it "ish" then your rig is ENGLish :)

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Its officially called Aurora :D

It may get confused with Areola, well it confuses me as I have tits on the brain 24/7.


http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/our_solar_system/moons_table.html

What about after some Moons? ^


Galaxies?

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/galaxy

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Warpig, MQ,
Miracle Man-Trilogy Suite, Cold Sweats, Black Guards, Rebel Yells & Irish Tours!

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Yay for cocobolo. Waiting for a fretboard of said substance on my Blackmachine. Which'll be a NGD for me next month....

Cool name, reminds me of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_aircraft
A-Pig 7s, Miracle Man & Mule, Cold Sweats... Expensive kit and no talent posse.

MDV

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Its officially called Aurora :D

It may get confused with Areola, well it confuses me as I have tits on the brain 24/7.


http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/our_solar_system/moons_table.html

What about after some Moons? ^


Galaxies?

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/galaxy



I thought about that, but they're all a bit gay or cheesy.

NGC1300 is my desktop (and my laptop desktop). I didnt expect to see that there. Not a very inspiring name though :lol:

Oh, NGC1300 is the 3rd down on the left - the barred spiral
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MDV

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Yay for cocobolo. Waiting for a fretboard of said substance on my Blackmachine. Which'll be a NGD for me next month....

Cool name, reminds me of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_aircraft

I can almost feel your anticipation...cos I felt it before, and its kicked in again :lol:

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I thought about that, but they're all a bit gay or cheesy.


Algol
Betelgeuse (or beetlejuice as you prefer)
Draco

they're cool...
Mule, MQ, Stockholm, CS, RY, MM, PK, ANB, CNB, AWP, CWP, PiG90...

too many? ;)

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wow, that looks awesome (the sketch you did). those ergonomic cutaways should be great to show off the woods and construction...  and meranti, eh? i know bob was using some of it for those new CNC superstrats he was building, but i think i'll go with the swamp ash one...

no opinion on the name, i'm not much good at naming stuff... :lol: aurora is pretty cool, though... just reminds me of that sketch in the simpsons with skinner and superintendent chalmers...

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Oh, no more names! Its decided - Aurora.

Thanks dave :D

We thought that design out long and hard, mind. Its gonna rule when its done. The compound body and contouring was Bobs idea, too. I initially just wanted something with a cool top on it: that seems so long ago now :lol: I just sharpened curved edges into bevels. We entertained even making it...lets see, what would it have been...7 layered, with 0.6mm veneers of black stained sycamoore in between all the other layers. Thought that might be a bit 'busy' though.

Going with...? Bob mentioned you were interested, in passing; is it certain? (I too am most intrigued by them).

Oh, swamp ash rocks. Underrated tonewood, IMO - clear, bell highs, fast attack and tight bass.

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Aurora is a family of mitotic kinases, many of which are considered good anti-cancer drug targets, due to their involvement in chromosomal splitting during mitosis.

I approve of the name.

Roo

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Whats with all these alternate Auroras? What ever is wrong with the earths magnetic field curving the path of charged particles in the solar wind toward the magnetic poles and said particles ionising molecules in earths upper atmosphere leading to electron recombination and pretty lights? The original Aurora, and best (even including this guitar!!)

Oh, glad you like it :D

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i wouldn't say 100% that it's certain, but i'm very interested, if that makes sense. basically, if he can accommodate the specs i want in the run for the same/similar price, then i'm very interested. I'm considering the swamp ash one because, as you say, it seems to be a well-regarded tonewood (and would be a little different to anything i currently have), meranti i'm not sure about because i don't think i've tried it (and also I'm not sure if i like the looks of it on a superstrat with a transparent finish :lol: ), and i don't want basswood as i already have a basswood RG... :lol:

I must actually email him again, have thought of a couple of other quick questions (as usual :lol: )...

and you're right, bob has good ideas, mine was never going to have the natural finish back until bob suggested it, and it rules. :)

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I dont know details about what sort of level of flexibility there will be with the new PG600s either, save that it has to be bolt on, they're RG-esque and they have Kahlers. I imagine, now, this is just me being a presumptuous git and taking wild guesses, that you can *probably* get any woods you want within that construction (dont see why not; just stick block of a different wood in the CNC...but then the words "dont see why not" have so often been my downfall :lol: ).

Throughs; no (we talked about that one), set neck, multi ply necks, tops, different bridge routings, no bridge routing, scale lengths, FB radii, neck profiles, headstock designs, pickup routes, controls and control locations and all the rest that need some structural change, a route or a different measurment or holes or whatever - I have no idea.

I suppose a lot of it depends on how many programs for the CNC there will be. However many there are to start with, I *guess* that number will increase, but spending ages programing loads of shapes in would defeat the purpose - keeping the costs down. All I really know is - Kind of RG shaped, bolt on, no throughs, kahler. Havent the foggiest on cost either, didnt ask. Any idea what ones gonna go for?
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