Nope, try again!Well you're probably all sick of this one by now...but...
February 4th.
Santana pic of the day
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What color is that? Want!I was going to stick to a pic a day, but that ship has long sailed and they do belong together.
Not quite full frontal, but by far my favourite shot of this guitar.
I don't have a very good full photo with me. I'll have to set aside some time to take some fresh ones. It wouldn't hurt to have new photos of all of them now that my eyes have figured out how to focus again.
CatStrangler
PRS Enthusiast
I was going to stick to a pic a day, but that ship has long sailed and they do belong together.
Not quite full frontal, but by far my favourite shot of this guitar.
I don't have a very good full photo with me. I'll have to set aside some time to take some fresh ones. It wouldn't hurt to have new photos of all of them now that my eyes have figured out how to focus again.
Is this a charcoal Sapele top??!! If so, that really gets the gears going!
veinbuster
Zombie Three, DFZ
It is a very dark grey. I'm not sure if it would be considered charcoal. It doesn't have the dark/white contrast of most charcoal tops, but it is sapele and not maple.
That's what I thought. Reminds me of my old charcoal standard. Love it!
CatStrangler
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My West St Ltd
The quilted sapele in this thread is extremely GAS inducing...wonder what they got up in the vault?
veinbuster
Zombie Three, DFZ
Its getting late in the day so I'll finish off the tale of my Santanas. While I was in the vault to build the rosewood Santana, I took some time to browse the more eclectic maple tops. I found one that was breath taking, but wasn't sure how to finish it. I took photos home, printed them out life size and started to draw on the with pencil crayons. I came up with something I thought would be cool if the paint room could do it. I took made another print and took it and my pencils to see Brent and showed him what I wanted to do. He shot a photo of the drawing and sent it off to Paul Miles to ponder. A few days later Paul says they have some nice samples of a new finish. It wasn't quite what I wanted to do without sitting down with Paul, so the top went to a different home and a few people at Experience were introduced to Dragon's Breath and decided they liked it.
A few months pass and I still want to do something with an erratic maple top, so when Brent heads back to the vault I have him look for a certain something. He sends me a few photos. I really like one of them, so shoot it to Mrs and tell her what I'm thinking...and we load up the crayons to visit the vault. I talked with Paul Miles for quite a while about different finish options and at the time we didn't think we could get quite what I wanted to achieve (I'll revisit it with him again one of these days). But Mrs. didn't want anyone else to have that top, so we went with plan D or E or something like that. You've seen it before.
rear view
A few months pass and I still want to do something with an erratic maple top, so when Brent heads back to the vault I have him look for a certain something. He sends me a few photos. I really like one of them, so shoot it to Mrs and tell her what I'm thinking...and we load up the crayons to visit the vault. I talked with Paul Miles for quite a while about different finish options and at the time we didn't think we could get quite what I wanted to achieve (I'll revisit it with him again one of these days). But Mrs. didn't want anyone else to have that top, so we went with plan D or E or something like that. You've seen it before.
rear view
shupe13
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Damn!
jfb
Plank Owner
A great many incredible guitars in this thread. Lots of cool stories to accompany them as well.
veinbuster
Zombie Three, DFZ
I have one last Santana to add. This one is quite special. And to continue the thread of me and Santanas, I took this one home with me the day I was at the vault to gather the wood for the one I posted yesterday. Most of the story of this guitar isn't mine to tell, but I did enjoy its company for a couple of weeks.
11top
Cousin Eddie's cousin
Its getting late in the day so I'll finish off the tale of my Santanas. While I was in the vault to build the rosewood Santana, I took some time to browse the more eclectic maple tops. I found one that was breath taking, but wasn't sure how to finish it. I took photos home, printed them out life size and started to draw on the with pencil crayons. I came up with something I thought would be cool if the paint room could do it. I took made another print and took it and my pencils to see Brent and showed him what I wanted to do. He shot a photo of the drawing and sent it off to Paul Miles to ponder. A few days later Paul says they have some nice samples of a new finish. It wasn't quite what I wanted to do without sitting down with Paul, so the top went to a different home and a few people at Experience were introduced to Dragon's Breath and decided they liked it.
A few months pass and I still want to do something with an erratic maple top, so when Brent heads back to the vault I have him look for a certain something. He sends me a few photos. I really like one of them, so shoot it to Mrs and tell her what I'm thinking...and we load up the crayons to visit the vault. I talked with Paul Miles for quite a while about different finish options and at the time we didn't think we could get quite what I wanted to achieve (I'll revisit it with him again one of these days). But Mrs. didn't want anyone else to have that top, so we went with plan D or E or something like that. You've seen it before.
rear view
One of my favorites, Pete.
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11top
Cousin Eddie's cousin
I have one last Santana to add. This one is quite special. And to continue the thread of me and Santanas, I took this one home with me the day I was at the vault to gather the wood for the one I posted yesterday. Most of the story of this guitar isn't mine to tell, but I did enjoy its company for a couple of weeks.
Mossy blue?
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veinbuster
Zombie Three, DFZ
Sure is.
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veinbuster
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That is why I felt compelled to let him have it back.He would have a blue Dragon.
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Just reiterating this here.
jfb
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He would have a blue Dragon.
He would, wouldn't he.
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