to be honest, the NGD was more than a week ago, but i could take some pic just today (and should have waited a couple more days, maybe... sorry for the sub-par photographic quality)
this, ladies and gents, is my second Cicolin (my luthier) WR, this time a Rage model... specs are: maple neck-through with mahogany wings, pau-ferro fretboard, wilkinson bridge (but once again i realized that i don't really know what to do with a trem bar...), sperzel locking tuners and, least but not last, BKP Nailbomb calibrated set with aged nickel covers (that look really sick!). miniswitch is for coil splitting.
if you're asking yourselves if the "balkenkreutz" has got any political meaning,
1) NO. it hasn't. it was a german army identification symbol in WWI and in this form it's a simplified version used on tanks and aircrafts in the last years of WWII.
2) i've got a WWII fetish, and always fancied putting one of these on a guitar. so nothing more. :)
The original idea was to follow Rolling Stones' teachings and paint it black. with the white cross on. so i didn't care much about fancy flamed maple necks... this one was the less figured in my luthier's workshop, but felt better than the others.
BUT when i saw those mahogany wings i decided it would have been a crime to cover them in paint, so i preferred to paint front maple in semi-transparent dunkelrot (my panzer fetish striked again), leaving wings and rear maple surfaces unpainted.
a bit hazardous, maybe, but i like the result... what do you think (panzer thing aside)?
