happy birthday suite 16

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happy birthday suite 16

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Mahogany body, Sapele top, Maple layer (looks like binding)
Maple neck, Ebony board, med/high frets,
6 way switching....
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pickup rings are pau ferro
Cavity covers are maple
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Nice!
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Slick!

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I'd pay $3k for that, easy!
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

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Wow, love your style and work Lawrence!!!
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Lawrence wrote:Mahogany body, Sapele top, Maple layer (looks like binding)
Maple neck, Ebony board, med/high frets,
6 way switching....
FFS. You MADE that?! That's incredible.

Taking me all my time to work up the courage to do a refret.

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Blimmin nice work sir. I really like that headstock and the tuners.

How do you find tuning it from behind? And what tuners are they?
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thanks for the comments team
The tuners are Steinberger. I had to raid a set of an earlier build for this cos I cant get them any more. I like them a lot. very fast string changes and very even tuning.

The 6 way switching has worked well. Its a Freeway switch and gives me the 3 standard humbucker toggle positions plus , neck outer coil with bridge humbucker, both outer coils, and bridge outer coil with neck humbucker. very versatile.
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Looks excellent. We need higher res pics. Consider getting an imgur account.

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twangnsnarl wrote:Looks excellent. We need higher res pics. Consider getting an imgur account.
your wish is my command

http://lawrencearps.imgur.com
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Well done. But you need to link the pictures; can't see them as your profile is private I think.

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twangnsnarl wrote:Well done. But you need to link the pictures; can't see them as your profile is private I think.
try now....
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That'll do it. Looks great.

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WOW! That's brilliant! Love the rear access to electronics too!

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