It is slightly thinner than a full bodied Lion so the weight is more manageable.
We used a maple top that had some birdseyes on it - understated but pretty
It has our all access neck of course.
Hardware is our current fave mix of Sperzel tuners, Earvana nut, TonePros bridge and locking tailpiece studs and an aluminium tailpiece.
I wanted to make it an Emerald Green of course and the block inlays feature a nice stripe of abalone that has a lot of green shades in it . Even the knobs are green tinted abalone on top

Well - the Lion that I spoke of a couple of months ago got snapped up by one of my regular customers .

Here is another that I had in the pipeline , and I decided to repeat the colour scheme - the picture can't quite capture how she looks in reality as the flame is one of those that moves as the light falling on the guitar moves so it has a 3D effect- very nice.

She's loaded up with Bareknuckle Mules and as ever features the Earvana compensated tuning system, TonePros bridge and locking studs with an aluminium tailpiece, whilst tuning duties are handled by Sperzel locking heads.

The neck joint is my usual all access joint which many of you are familiar with already, and the neck is my usual 3 piece construction for added strength and rigidity.
The fretboard is macassar ebony and it has huge Dunlop 6000 fretwire.
I used some Vitamin Q capacitors with the usual CTS pots and the tones are just great

In a rare bit of wheeling and dealing I reacquired a guitar I built and sold 6 years ago.
It was a guitar that I had originally built with myself in mind and had scheduled to also get it reviewed in Guitar Buyer magazine, but was persuaded by a customer to sell it to him. Whilst it's obviously been played and enjoyed it has also been kept in pristine condition and plays as well as the day it left here - if not a bit better as the whole guitar has settled down and matured a bit over the last few years.

It's a great guitar and got some nice praise in the magazine with the only criticism being that the logo that we had been using at the time was out of character with the classic lines of the guitar - we had been trying to have a logo that didn't make people think we were trying to look like Fender- not easy with a 6 letter name starting with a letter "F" and contining two letter E's and a tall letter in the middle ! However over time people have started to recognise the Catseye logo a lot more and this has allowed us to use a script logo in conjunction with that recognisible motif and have a more classic look.

So this guitar will recieve some interesting upgrades and modifications- we have already swapped out the Seymour Duncan pickups for some Bare Knuckle Riff Raffs and upgraded the Tone capacitors to Vitamin Q (oil and paper ) types.
Next up will be an Earvana Compensated tuning nut, some Tonepros locking hardware with possibly an aluminium tailpiece for a more vintage vibe and of course a change of logos on the headstock to our current preferred look.

Then I may be locking myself away for some serious playing time !