" Thank you making a thing of complete beauty that will outlive me and that will endless pleasure to me and anyone else who experiences it."

- Hugh S.

 

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Scheduled Start Date: Aug 06, 2012
Completed: Sep 04, 2012

  • Master Grade Chocolate Heart Mango top, back & sides

  • Koa body binding with Abalone purfling on top

  • Abalone rosette

  • High gloss polyester finish

  • Radiused Ebony fretboard with Koa binding & Abalone markers

  • Mahogany neck

  • Peghed brand geared tuners

  • Leopardwood & Cherry Signature Headplate

  • MiSi with LR Baggs undersaddle pickup

Hand-crafted in the USA by Gordon & Char Mayer and Aaron Keim. Each instrument is numbered & signed.

 

Wood Grade: Master
Wood Availability: Sorry, this wood is no longer available.

 

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Build Schedule
 

Date

 

  

1

Aug 6

bend sides, glue in neck block

2

Aug 7

glue in tail block

3

Aug 8

rout & glue-in end graft, kerf top edge, kerf bottom edge, brace back

4

Aug 9

brace top, glue back onto sides

5

Aug 20

glue top onto sides, prep fretboard & neck

6

Aug 21

clean up body, rout dovetail, drill tuner holes, glue fretboard onto neck, rout binding channels, glue in top binding

7

Aug 22

shape neck, dress fret ends, glue in back binding

8

Aug 23

prep for finish, tape off for spraying

  

9

Aug 23

fill pores twice

10

Aug 23

first coat of poly topcoat

11

Aug 23

second coat of poly topcoat

12

Aug 31

sand & buff finish, glue neck/fretboard onto body

13

Sep 3

glue on bridge

14

Sep 4

make saddle, (put in pickup, if any), cut nut, final fretwork, put in tuners, put on strings
Original Wood Set