Our regular Korina flying V fanatic customer, Paul has had us at it again
Really happy with this one!
Paul supplied some of his own hardware (tuners, tonepro ABR style bridge and the pickups , which were Alnico 2, but sadly not Stormy Mondays - which would have been my first choice)
As ever we had to have a brass boomerang tailpiece made up specially as the commercially available ones are the wrong angle and they leave gaps down the edge of the fingerboard.
Paul had us put another serial number on this one - previous versions featured his date of birth and the date of the first flyingV to be made.
This one just reflected a date that might have been a good time to get such a guitar.
Recessing and installing the gripper strip is a tricky task but we seem to do a nice job of that
We used 2mm mother of pearl dots on the side markers
The earliest Vs were hand carved on the heel - and as such had no step between neck and body - as repeated here (Paul is a stickler for the little details)
We were really pleased with the colour of the amber tint in the finish - looks like an old one might look colour -wise
The neck wood has some lovely rippled figuring in it - looks lovely
The strings are seated in recessed brass cups - different style to Fender style ferrules
The pointy end
