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There are a lot of things on this build I would usually have said no to, but this build was an exception to my rules.

It was for a friend I've known a couple decades, who lets just say has different tastes to the mainstream.

I tried talking him out of the blue, he insisted the blue was the theme of the guitar and everything else was to be built around that theme. I tried talking him out of the hooks but he really, really wanted them. There were extra cut aways I did talk him out of, but other than that the guitar is pretty much all his concept.


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Clancy's Star - Neckthru 6

THERE ARE 47 PIECES OF TIMBER IN THIS GUITAR!

Neck, fingerboard & headstock - Wenge, Maple & Padauk laminations
Body - Padauk top on African Mahogany with Maple stringers
Kahler trem (NOS blue annodised from the 1980's) with spurzel locking tuners
Tusq nut, Carbon Fiber output jack plate, blue plastic cavity covers and binding, glow in the dark side dots

Bareknuckle Aftermath set - burned chrome covers mounted over red LED's
Kill switch (arcade button) with blue LED
Coil split, phase switches and 3 way pickup selector

12 degree +/- headstock angle
16" fingerboard radius
25.5" fingerboard scale
24 frets
6150 Dunlop fretwire

Got some nice timber combinations going on there Steve, I'm loving the Wenge (I have a piece for a neck sitting in my stash, may just have to use it now )
and the lamination work is cool. as you say, not sure of the blue but at the end of the day it's the customer who's paying for it so you have to keep them satisfied.
Those Humbuckers look like they have a pile of grunt, fairly chunky pole pieces!

Great work Steve, Good to see you back @ANZLF Can't say that I'm liking the blue BUT whatever floats your mates boat

Yep!! you have a gift, bloke, a great eye & imagination for brilliant art!!!

I feel the blue sets it off, art deco vision...grouse!!

Where does one get glow in the dark side dots

Wow! I like it a lot! A statement and a half.
Kinda feels like you'd have to wear a super-hero costume to play it properly.
Particularly like your multi-scarf necks, Steve.

All the hardware minus the p/ups was supplied by the customer. The side dots also. I'm pretty sure it all came from eBay.

The pickups I had made in the UK and they as suggested have lots of grunt!

Cheers

Allan

Looks like a lot of work, a real stand out job, who'd wanna steel that guitar. Looks good.