NGD - Villa V !!

[FELINEGUITARS]

Ok - this one has been in the works for a while
Finally finished it and we're pretty pleased with it
It's a custom build for a customer - hence the very personal colour scheme (Jason is a villa fan)

The idea behind it was make a Schenker style V (but pretend he's an Aston Villa fan - like UFO bass player Pete Way)
Specs are
Mahogany body and neck
Ebony fingerboard - 12" radius/ 24.75" scale with split chevron inlays (inspired by a cadillac logo I saw on a car)
Dunlop 6000 frets, Grover tuners (i usually prefer Sperzel), Earvana nut
Tonepros bridge & Tonepros locking tailpiece studs and an Aluminium tailpiece
Pickups are BKP Cold Sweat set - the neck one is loaded into a Seymour Duncan "Triple Shot"  mounting ring with switches
Two volume controls and a 3 way switch control the sound and the jack socket is mounted in the upper fin
Recessed straplocks finish her off - also has straplock buttons on the tips of the fins to stand her up on

So here she is





So here she is

[FernandoDuarte]

Looking very nice! :D

[dave_mc]

very nice!

apart from the colours (have nothing against av, but i'm not sure those colours should be on a guitar, lol)

EDIT: very nice inlays :)

[Will]

Top work on the inlays, the detail on the think ones are amazing

[FELINEGUITARS]

Top work on the inlays, the detail on the think ones are amazing

Your Lion should be finished by the end of the month too (hopefully)
Saw it on Friday - made paint guys bring it over so I could see progress

[ToneMonkey]

Nice axe, nice inlays........... but I still shite on the villa  :lol:

[horsehead]

Damn Villa fans get everywhere! Looks lovely though mate. How do the switches work?

[Transcend]

Damn Villa fans get everywhere! Looks lovely though mate. How do the switches work?

i think theyre to switch between wiring options.

coil split/tap/ in phase/out of phase.

At least thats what i understood from the article i read but that was over a year ago.

[FELINEGUITARS]

Damn Villa fans get everywhere! Looks lovely though mate. How do the switches work?

There are 4 switch combinations on the duncan triple shot
Series Humbucking
Parallell humbucking
screw coil on its own
slug coil on its own

No phase options as yet

[Dreichlift]

I can't help thinking if you changed the blue to light yellow and painted the neck white it'd look like a well sucked Drumstick lollypop  :lol:

Looks great though, despite football theme

[Dmoney]

I keep thinking... in the right light conditions, would this be a West Ham V?

[FELINEGUITARS]

I keep thinking... in the right light conditions, would this be a West Ham V?

It looks pretty much like that already in natural light

Thats the trouble with football themed stuff - it instantly polarises most viewers
Sort of "I like the guitar but feel obliged to hate it and need to burn it because it's a rival team's colours"

[Philly Q]

I had a brief look at it "in the flesh" (minus pickups and hardware) a few weeks ago.

I have nothing against Villa (or indeed West Ham), I think it looks great.  :D

[ToneMonkey]

I keep thinking... in the right light conditions, would this be a West Ham V?

It looks pretty much like that already in natural light

Thats the trouble with football themed stuff - it instantly polarises most viewers
Sort of "I like the guitar but feel obliged to hate it and need to burn it because it's a rival team's colours"

There's always sandpaper 

[FELINEGUITARS]

Some more views of the guitar
Hidden jack socket and recessed straplock button


Tonepros bridge, locking tailpiece studs and aluminium tailpiece


Side view of Earvana shelf nut


Headstock with stainless steel logo