The neck is a burnished Afra/Afra "Pro" with gold 6100s, Schaller mini-lockers and a Graphtech nut. It's a hollow Mahogany body with a brass Scartozi bridge, Roadhouse humbucker, GFS True-Coil single, and Dangerous pickup rings and neckplate. I'll start stripping it later, so stay tuned. But, gold looks good with anything, so no harm done. If I were starting from scratch, I'd more likely go chrome as that goes will with blue. Gonna use gold hardware, mainly because I already have it all. Everyone who's seen it thinks it's Brazillian Rosewood, but I can't say and I doubt they know any better, either. It's super-dense, like Bloodwood or Ebony, and has some pretty wild grain pattern to it. The fretboard doesn't look like Rosewood, or at least not the Indian Rosewood they claimed it is. It'a an unusual piece you'd have to see to appreciate. The necks is a Warmoth-headed Rosewood/Rosewood part w/ gold 6100s. The top will be a darker blue, and I haven't decided yet whether to burst that out to a midnight blue that transitions into the black, or just run the blue to the edge and call it a day. So, I think that's going to end up with an opaque black finish. As you can see in the second picture above, It has some goofy grain swirls to it, and it's poorly bookmatched. The main carcass is Mahogany, but it's not a particularly attractive piece.
There are other subtleties, but aren't worth mentioning. The main differences between this and a modern VIP are the cutaway at the lower horn, and this one is only 1 1/4" thick vs.
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