The Hell Cat Completed

It has been a long Journey from start to finish, but the first Hell Cat is all finished up now, these are the the finished pics. 

Final specs:

Top: Buckeye burl

Bridge, tailpiece, pickup covers, knobs, and truss cover: walnut burl

Neck: curly walnut with two way adjustable truss rod, and carbon fiber reinforcement.

Body: maple core with walnut wings

Fretboard: EIR

Binding: Curly Maple

Inlays: Abalone set in copper

Logo: Copper wire

Electronics: Master volume, master tone, three way pup selector, and series/split/parallel toggle for each pup

Tuners: locking Grover 

Vixen # 3 is under finish

The reason I haven't put up finished pics is because I decided that this top deserved some protection, so instead of leaving it in oil I decided to spray some nitro. I had to do a poor fill first. 

Inlay for the Nomad

New method for doing the wire inlay this time around. I cut all my pieces bent them to shape and the glued them down on dyed cardstock. Hopefully inlaying this whole thing as one piece should be much easier than trying to inlay each individual little piece of wire one at a t time. 

More progress on the Nomad

Today I put the first coat of Z-poxy on the Nomad. You can really see grain starting to come through now. This is going to be a beautiful top :-)

new photos of the Nomad.

Today I routed out the pickup cavities, and also cleaned up the heal carve. More photos to come.

New guitar in the works. The Nomad.