Just finished in time for Bristol Guitar Show on Sunday. A few weeks ago I had some Lace "Matchbook" pickups from California, and decided to build a couple of experimental guitars using them: here's the first one. I decided to put as much of the good stuff into it as I could. The neck is 3 piece laminated sapele and maple, and has a 2-way adjustable trussrod. The fretboard is black walnut, Van Gent Super Jumbo fretwire with handmade real pearl inlays and edge dot markers, bone nut and the machineheads are Van Gent DeLuxe. The bridge is our new stainless steel unit, and the soundhole covers are also custom stainless steel. The pickup is the low profile Lace Matchbook induction pickup, with tone and volume, "orange drop" tone capacitor, split switch, Neutrik jack and custom stainless steel plate, and all wired with vintage cloth and braided wires. The body has "wings" to help balance the guitar both on a strap and on the knee, finished in gunstock oil. Finishing it off are our balanced tension "Zilpha" hexcore handwound strings.