Recent content by Elias Graves

Firebirds! And a Hipshot hard tail bridge.

Working on fret slots. The mail brought some hardware! Truss rod, abalone dots, treble bleed setup, pickup rings, string trees, neck & jack plates etc.

I scored a piece of purpleheart for the fretboard. Deciding on finish options now.

I’m kinda thinking Firebird mashup…

OMG the Suhr pickups made my jaw drop. Such clarity from a humbucker I never heard before. Bright and clear but they sound pure PAF with gain. I’m floored by em.

Here we go! She’s a player too!!!

Same wood. Black limba. White limba. Korina. Strictly cosmetic and marketing.

Limba=korina. White or black simply refers to whether or not it has streaks in it. They can actually come from the same tree. I’d say it’s pretty functionally equivalent to mahogany. Suhr is well known for using a lot of black limba in guitars. I suspect it’s not used more simply because it’s...

Paint is done on the new one. Time for some assembly!

If you recall, I made a yellow P90 version that had a black limba neck which I named Sparky. I raided that neck to go on the new orange limba model which left Sparky in need of a replacement. I had wanted yellow on there to begin with but the limba didn’t really like the yellow dye. Maple, on...

Thank you! Got some chrome covers for the pups and a tort pickguard going on.

Ok the paint is done! Just waiting for the lacquer to get good and hard now.

3 pounds 15 ounces

I tape off the outline of the bevel cut and rough it in with a power carver.

Now beginning to cut the bevels on the front and back. The limba is pretty cool. It works about like mahogany. Which means it’s pretty easy to cut carve and shape. It kinda smells like burning paper when you cut it with power tools.