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12 minutes ago, polara said:

Cersei just pushes all my buttons. Always enjoy this thread, Ben: lovely idea and execution.

Thanks, man! I'm just having fun with these, but it's always nice when other people like the same stuff I do.

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12 hours ago, Gabe said:

Looking good as is.

Maybe only some lacquer, keeping the colour natural?

At least I hope it will be transparent!

The maple-topped one will definitely get a transparent finish. Thinking an amber/iced tea burst unless someone $pecifies something else. ;) The alder body's getting an opaque finish. I have something unusual in mind.

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6 hours ago, killerteddybear said:

OK then, seafoam green on the alder body...
Signal orange?

Sea form green top and orange sides and back, if so.

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Metallic orange body, tortoise shell pick guard with neck left raw - cleared headstock.  

The second one is so nice as it sits - it could just get scared a bit with the shadow of the lacquer spray gun and be just fine.

Ben, although (and because) you taunt me with your merciless B-Way porn posts, you are on my "must buy" list.   :)

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On ‎8‎/‎21‎/‎2017 at 0:39 PM, Boomerang~Junkie said:

Ben, although (and because) you taunt me with your merciless B-Way porn posts, you are on my "must buy" list.   :)

Thanks!

Adding a little bling this time around:

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And going back to a single truss rod, this time with spoke wheel adjustment:

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3 hours ago, gorch said:

Are the guitars in any way CITES affecting?

Just spoke to US FWS to make sure. The MOP is not regulated under CITES, so the only restriction would be that the guitars have to be shipped through a qualified inspection port since MOP is technically wildlife. I believe the mahogany used for the HB guitar is CITES-regulated in raw lumber form but not in finished product form. I'm double-checking on that. Everything else (alder, maple) is free of any import/export restriction.

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6 hours ago, burningyen said:

Just spoke to US FWS to make sure. The MOP is not regulated under CITES, so the only restriction would be that the guitars have to be shipped through a qualified inspection port since MOP is technically wildlife. I believe the mahogany used for the HB guitar is CITES-regulated in raw lumber form but not in finished product form. I'm double-checking on that. Everything else (alder, maple) is free of any import/export restriction.

Correction: The mahogany used in the HB guitar is African mahogany and not subject to CITES.

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I would be worried that those idiots would bandsaw anything with brown-ish looking wood. Like, even if you taped a big note on the neck saying 'IT'S NOT ROSEWOOD, THAT'S WHY IT DOESN'T HAVE CERTIFICATES' likely wouldn't matter.

That, to me, is one of the big flaws in that whole stupid system (besides that fact that it exists at all) is how do you document woods that might sort of look like woods on the list but really aren't?

Anyway, cool looking guitars. B)

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12 hours ago, Tortious said:

I would be worried that those idiots would bandsaw anything with brown-ish looking wood. Like, even if you taped a big note on the neck saying 'IT'S NOT ROSEWOOD, THAT'S WHY IT DOESN'T HAVE CERTIFICATES' likely wouldn't matter.

That, to me, is one of the big flaws in that whole stupid system (besides that fact that it exists at all) is how do you document woods that might sort of look like woods on the list but really aren't?

Anyway, cool looking guitars. B)

Fair point, it's not zero risk, that's for sure. And thanks!

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