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Did someone say THEXAH?

So after about 50+ hours of the most intense planning, cutting, routing, sanding, staining, etc. she's finally finished!

The down low...one-piece Sapele mahogany body with body contour, two-piece private stock cloud figured maple top (body stained then multiple coats of wipe-on poly...then sanded to 1500 grit and then polished), figured maple neck (sanded to 1500 grit and finished with multiple coats of tung oil), rosewood fingerboard w/ pearl dot inlays (finished with lemon oil), 21 medium/medium nickel frets set at a 22.875" scale, dual action truss rod, ukulele nut, sealed tuners, chrome hardtail bridge, three-way toggle w/ volume & tone control, and locking strap pins.

The pickups are my own hand wound, bar magnets from Dan Sleep of Humidor Guitars. Tops are zebra wood.

A new addition to the neck mount is a neck tilt system I made with a tee nut and allen set screw in the body, and the neck heel has a Canadian Bluenose dime set as a pressure plate...for the set screw adjustment limiter.

Strings are GHS Boomer Plain Steel gauges .036w, .026w, .017p, .013p and tuned DGBe.

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Comment by Brown Water Jerry (Rice) on January 20, 2015 at 12:47pm: Omg!

Comment by Dan Sleep on January 19, 2015 at 3:58am: beauty!!!!

Comment by Harrison Withers on January 19, 2015 at 2:01am: awesome!

Comment by darryl kernaghan on January 18, 2015 at 7:15pm: nice work Scott,kudos

Comment by Thorsten Hinrichsen on January 18, 2015 at 6:22pm: Congratulations! finest work.

Comment by The Phrygian Kid on January 18, 2015 at 11:21am: bugger me you get some nice tops.

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Comment by Andy Parkin on January 18, 2015 at 11:16am: really really nice! love the finish and pickup covers.

Comment by Uncle John on January 18, 2015 at 10:34am: Oh that's nice. It's been a very productive time on the farm.

Comment by the anonymous pick on January 18, 2015 at 10:23am: THEXAH!

Comment by Scott aka Farmer Ted on January 18, 2015 at 10:03am: Thanks guys. Yes AGP, patience was definitely needed to take it as far as I did.

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