NZGuitars.com : Filling you with GAS since 2003

Yeah I know, always a consideration.

Not sure I could justify more than $500 on what might be a DIY project or a shiny turd.

Yeah and the seller isn't a lot of help either. It must be difficult to run a guitar business with zero online presence nowadays.

It looks really nice with the maple binding and paua inlays, but there's a lot of guitars that look pretty yet sound like buttock.

There's a nice looking acoustic on trademe made by AFJ guitars, a luthier in Nelson. Has anyone here had any experience with this guy, or his guitars? There's no website or demo videos, just a listing on some obscure site and basically I don't want to drop a lot of money on a potential lemon. Any wo...

Adrian from AshCustomWorks used to have a bunch of tele necks. Not sure if he still does (I'd imagine he does though) but drop him a line and see.

Go to livesound in Auckland for piping. Speak to John.

I preferred it the original way you had it.

Atheistic reasons.

Interesting.

How much will lefties be? $3,500?

Ah they don't seem vintagey if they're 6105 on the professional strat. This is a good thing.

One thing Fender said on their changes list was a change to "tall, narrow" frets. That puts me off. Are they vintage style? Or like you'd find on a MIJ Fender? The highway one had massive frets and was great fun to play.

Flame maple top, black limba back.

It weighs quite a bit due to the upgraded iron. It's running some beasty transformers.

Handmade cab, amp, amp shell.

The amp uses the laney chassis and controls but the innards are all bespoke.

Yeah it's a work of art that thing, nothing to do with me though. That was all the amp tech. He's a wizard.

And we're done. 6 coats of semi-gloss polyurethane, then knocked back with 0000 steel wool and polished up. It looks a little like this: http://i.imgur.com/czcRelg.jpg http://i.imgur.com/7FMPkNs.jpg It's a 2/3 open back because I like it. The back baffle (is it a baffle?) is 15mm AA plywood. That's ...