Here comes a guitar I started building last December and finished just a couple days ago. It was a commissioned build, an order from a friend who runs a restaurant and wanted a "house guitar" for visiting bands and troubadours. He lives down the same street in Helsinki and his restaurant in Tammisaari 100 km west of here is also just a couple hundred metres from my workshop. Last November we went to see our old 80's metal favourites Saxon and Anvil and came back to my place for a drink. He got inspired by the instruments hanging on my wall and asked me to build him one. He's a drummer himself and doesn't play the guitar, but he wanted one with the colours and the logo of his restaurant Albatros (Yes, that's with one "s", that's what the place is called). The build had a lot of inlay work and required a lot of precision crafting. That was a challenge, but I seem to have pulled it off. I suggested myself that it should have MOP bird inlays in the fretboard and I'm glad I did. It turned out really nice.
So he wanted a blue Les Paul type solid body with a flame top, white binding and self-wound pickups. I handed the instrument over last night.
These are thye specs:
Body alder, flamed birch top, colour blue, white ABS plastic binding, clear acrylic lacquer finish
Set neck maple 24,75 "/ 629 mm scale, 2-way truss rod, rosewood fingerboard 22 medium jumbo frets, MOP bird inlays, white ABS plastic binding, bone nut, NYDE logo MOP headstock inlay, clear acrylic lacquer finish
Neck pickup NYDE AlNiCo5 Tradbucker chrome humbucker 8 kΩ, bridge pickup NYDE AlNiCo5 Tradbucker chrome humbucker 9 kΩ, 2 volume pots with treble bleed filters, 2 tone pots, 3-way switch, push-pull coil tap swtch on neck pickup tone pot, white bell knobs
Tune-o-matic bridge, stoptail string holder, Sperzel type rear disc locking tuners, 19:1 ratio
chrome hardware
