NAMM, schmamm - New Custom Strathead Arrives. Flamey!

[neilli]

Looks great Pat - glad to see someone's getting their HRF guitars!

[hippietim]

very nice pat!

[toejam]

Absolutely stunning! Congrats.

[dannyr]

Kick ass!!! Congrats.

[Megadeth79]

Awesome guitar Pat, congrats. Also Shawn, do you have a family photo of your guitars. I guess you have a great collection.

[RaVenCAD]

Is the pic overexposed or is the fretboard dry looking?

[shreddermon]

Crappy indoor pics - look at the flash bouncing off the strings and frets. The fretboard is fine.

[pebber]

that's an awesome piece!

[Budman68]

That's killer, Pat, congrats to you sir -

[shreddermon]

Thanks guys. Matt's right about the neck - I spec'd the thin pointyhead backshape on both this and the flametop strathead I got recently. The flametop turned out very close. But this one is flat-out spot on.

The pao ferro is awesome, too. I really dig this as a fretboard wood a lot. It's definitely my favorite wood, as far as feel. The brown is a medium shade like hot cocoa-with-milk, with some cool red/rust-ish colored highlights. If you've never played it, it feels a lot more like ebony than rosewood. A much, much tighter grain - less open pores - and a very hard, dense wood, so it's very slick and slippery feeling like ebony.

[P.O. Box 245]

Very very cool. Pau Ferro and a 1 hum/1 sc layout too, nice choices! Congrats.

I don't know about a 1 year wait though...wow.

[thenine]

mucho beauty

[Predator1]

Is it heavy? I am curious about the weight since all the recent talk about 10 lb charvels. Looks great though better then anything Iv'e seen from NAMM.

[shreddermon]

Pretty much the same as most any other alder-bodied guitar I've ever played.

[LastInLine]

Pretty much the same as most any other alder-bodied guitar I've ever played.

Nice axe.

Did the Custom Shop give you updates (pic's/e-mails) during the course of the year as the guitar progressed?