New Year's Resolution

So.
After having "inadvertently inspired" some dealer's imagination with one of the previous posts I have decided to kick off 2006 in STYLE.

• Orca w/ fatback korina body
• Solid "vintage" rosewood neck and fretboard, one 12th fret inlay
• Extraordinary tubular quilt top (pictured above)
• Finish... either a) Dark Chocolate Burst or b) Dark Fire Burst, scraped binding
• Pickups: Häussel, wound to spec with a definite rock bias :-)
• Wood p.up frames (ebony)
• 'Lectronics: one Vol, one Tone, 5 way superswitch (taa-daa!)
• Special headstock inlay (hehe)
• Special ebony tulip buttons
• Hardware: leaning towards gold.

So much for outright Bling'n'Sing. Remember - you've read it HERE first. Oh yes... this baby is for ME and will not be for sale.

On the other hand... as a long time Jimmy Page fanatic I can't resist the temptation of a "JP" Orca. Specs?

• Fatback mahogany body and mahogany neck. Both in currrrly mahogany (oh yes!!)
• Easter curly maple top with large yet subdued flames
• Maple fretboard binding
• BRW fretboard with "classic" inlays (I know I'll have to cry, pray, beg, and kneel for this)
• "Sunken-in" (i.e. extra thin) finish in historically-correct faded burst ;-)
• Häussel pups: open coil VIN+ bridge (black), nickel plated neck Classic PAF
• JP 'lectronics (push-pull pots for phase, series, parallel)
• Kluson tuners, nickel hardware

I'll reserve some beautiful tops for like-minded JP / LP fans... please enquire within.

Have a great Christmas, dudes and dudettes - may all your six string dreams come true (sooner or later)!!

Meet the Boyz

Paul & Nik Huber
Originally uploaded by Uncle GroOve.

OK. Here's the mugshots.
The Boss, Nik Huber, is standing on the left...yours truly is staring at him on the right.
In the foreground: dolphin redwood (standing), dolphin goldtop (reclining).
Taken last november in Milano, Italy at the Second Hand Guitar Show (SHG27 for short).

Working on plenty of stuff at the moment:
* Blue quilt top Orca
* Gretsch Orange quilt top Dolphin
* Tobacco sunburst Junior (1 P90 pickup)
* A hollowbody, no f-hole, spruce top jazzbox

Later on in 2006 I have an Orca Goldtop in the works, along with at lest one other trem Dolphin, a couple of classic Orcas (a "Jimmy Page" and a "Peter Green"), a super quilt, rosewood neck killer Orca.
Goodies galore.... My passion is bound to be my poison!!!!

Orders, orders, orders....

So Nik writes and asks me to program my stuff for 2006.
Hmm...
Ok, so my friend Alberto wants some stuff, a good store in Milano is churning away with gleeful abandon, I have a couple of dream guitties for myself, and I need to keep some stock.
At the end of the day my list looks like this:
* Jazz Dolphin (semihollow, body TBD, spruce top, rosewood or ebony fretboard, curly maple neck)
* Orca Goldtop "56-06 Anniversary"
* Dolphin bolt-on, maple neck
* Dolphin with extraordinary quilt-top in Gretsch Orange (new order)
* Dolphin Junior (korina body and neck, BRW fretboard, 1 P90)
* Dolphin Jazz
* Dolphin w/ tremolo
* Orca, eastern maple top, Peter Green neck pickup
* Orca, tube quilt top over a solid korina body, rosewood neck, one inlay at the 12th fret.

Whoa!... talk about the "dream-team"...