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I built this guitar while working at Dean Guitars. This was my first from scratch build. I had help from Dan Russell with the layout, slotting the fretboard and gluing the neck and body sides up. John Hill helped me with the neck shaping. Both Dan and John are formerly from Hill Guitars who now work for Dean. Other than that and the paint, Ferrari Red, done by Shawn Ortiz of Extreme Custom Designs, I did all the work myself, including winding the pickup. I have to give a big thanks to Dave Wescott (budman) for the pickup ring, and truss rod cover that added the finishing touch.
The specs are:
3 piece maple neck through
Poplar sides
24 fret bound ebony fretboard
Dunlop 6000 super jumbo frets
Mother of pearl inlays
Original Floyd Rose/ R3 nut
Custom wound pickup 14.5k alnico 8 magnet
I didn't take very many "in progress" photos since this was done in my spare time and on breaks and lunch at work. I did manage to get a few of the neck blank with the fretboard attached, binding glued on and the inlays roughed in.
And a few after the frets were pressed in.
These next pictures are after the body and headstock sides were glued on. At this point the body and neck profile were rough shaped and no control cavity had been routed yet. The binding hadn't been glued around the headstock yet, but the routing had been done.
After final shaping and finish sanding it was off to Shawn for paint. The catalog photographer from Dean shot some high res pics when I got it back. I had to resize them.
And some pics I took yesterday in my yard.
The specs are:
3 piece maple neck through
Poplar sides
24 fret bound ebony fretboard
Dunlop 6000 super jumbo frets
Mother of pearl inlays
Original Floyd Rose/ R3 nut
Custom wound pickup 14.5k alnico 8 magnet
I didn't take very many "in progress" photos since this was done in my spare time and on breaks and lunch at work. I did manage to get a few of the neck blank with the fretboard attached, binding glued on and the inlays roughed in.
And a few after the frets were pressed in.
These next pictures are after the body and headstock sides were glued on. At this point the body and neck profile were rough shaped and no control cavity had been routed yet. The binding hadn't been glued around the headstock yet, but the routing had been done.
After final shaping and finish sanding it was off to Shawn for paint. The catalog photographer from Dean shot some high res pics when I got it back. I had to resize them.
And some pics I took yesterday in my yard.
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