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So last summer, my friend and fellow guitar builder Mike Potvin asked me to check out some Explorer templates that he made. They're really nice, but being someone that's not into short scale guitars, I didn't figure that I'd be putting the set to use any time soon. I'd been listening to The Runaways a fair amount and one morning, on my way out the door, I saw the templates and thought I'd make one inspired by Lita Ford's black Hamer Special, but there was one problem; who's gonna buy it? Thankfully, that was sorted out later in the day when I had posted some pix about it on facebook.
A few other folks showed interest, so I decided that I'd make it an unofficial model and only build 5 of them. I decided to call it the Elita (see what I did there?) and here are some pics of the guitars. The batch has sold out, and I have no plans to make any more of them, but I thought I'd share nonetheless.
Elita #1 is a one piece black limba body (yep. one piece!), 3pc limba neck, ebony fretboard, 22 stainless steel frets, Habanero pickups from Grover (they're excellent, btw), blah blah blah. Here we go!
One piece black limba slab
Fretboard inlaid: I love these hollow blocks!
Necks and bodies for Elitas #1 and #2
Neck pocket complete
Bound and taped
22 bits of stainless steel goodness:
Backshape roughed in
Back contours roughed in
Scraping binding
As it is now. Behind it is the Galaxy V from a previous thread, as well as Elita #2 (and if you look verrrrrrrrrrry closely, you can see part of a '92 model)
Elita #2 has a spanish cedar body and neck, ebony board with no inlays, and will have a very subtle paint job.
Neck shaped
ALL HOLES DRILLED!
After seeing this pic of the body contours on the back, Tracy asked if I could contour the neck heel. Why not?
Let's get started
That oughta do!
Instructions are important:
Basecoat:
Color:
More later!
A few other folks showed interest, so I decided that I'd make it an unofficial model and only build 5 of them. I decided to call it the Elita (see what I did there?) and here are some pics of the guitars. The batch has sold out, and I have no plans to make any more of them, but I thought I'd share nonetheless.
Elita #1 is a one piece black limba body (yep. one piece!), 3pc limba neck, ebony fretboard, 22 stainless steel frets, Habanero pickups from Grover (they're excellent, btw), blah blah blah. Here we go!
One piece black limba slab
Fretboard inlaid: I love these hollow blocks!
Necks and bodies for Elitas #1 and #2
Neck pocket complete
Bound and taped
22 bits of stainless steel goodness:
Backshape roughed in
Back contours roughed in
Scraping binding
As it is now. Behind it is the Galaxy V from a previous thread, as well as Elita #2 (and if you look verrrrrrrrrrry closely, you can see part of a '92 model)
Elita #2 has a spanish cedar body and neck, ebony board with no inlays, and will have a very subtle paint job.
Neck shaped
ALL HOLES DRILLED!
After seeing this pic of the body contours on the back, Tracy asked if I could contour the neck heel. Why not?
Let's get started
That oughta do!
Instructions are important:
Basecoat:
Color:
More later!
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