goof1073
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This splurge-fest has some history to it between myself and Brian over at Brian's guitars. Like so many others I've done my fair share of deals with Brian and more recently I've consigned some gear through his shop with the intention of building up some credit toward a Private Stock build and ultimately a visit to PRS Vault.
Well sometimes life has different plans and this time it started with Brian's clinic in late October. Brian had gone into the vault prior to the event and selected some killer wood to bring to his event; some of which he told me ahead of time that I would love. Well I went past the table and stared at the 5 options over and over and finally got some time with Brian to spray down the tops and talk about options. As I already mentioned in another thread...this top was just too good to pass on...so PS 6794 was put on order:
It's going to be a Semi-Hollow SC594 RW...killer one piece quilt top and the pictured Honduran Rosewood neck was also selected. I'm going with a custom finish which won't be 100% locked in till I see some color samples and I have elected for Blade Knots over the typical birds.
So go forward about a month and Brian decided to do a Facebook live event, similar to PRS Periscope videos, where he went through the remaining 4 tops. While I passed on the interesting chevron curved flame top at his event but I found myself drooling over the top in his video and after thinking about what I would ever want out of a flame top, well...PS 6796 just had that something different compared to the typical straight grain flame...so I pulled the trigger!!
So ya....
...I've had "one in the oven" in the past, but the thought of having a double hitter was never something I thought that I would do. Man the next 9 months are going to fun waiting for these 2 axes to come together.
Good thing I had some credit left over!!! So after going back and forth on some specs this guitar is going to be an SC-HB1 Tiger Eye Smoked Burst with Birds of a Feather inlays / headstock. I've got some surprises on this build that I want to keep a mystery...but this is going to be a killer guitar once it's built! Oh and did I mentioned the Mahogany neck is an epic piece of flamed goodness?
Well sometimes life has different plans and this time it started with Brian's clinic in late October. Brian had gone into the vault prior to the event and selected some killer wood to bring to his event; some of which he told me ahead of time that I would love. Well I went past the table and stared at the 5 options over and over and finally got some time with Brian to spray down the tops and talk about options. As I already mentioned in another thread...this top was just too good to pass on...so PS 6794 was put on order:
It's going to be a Semi-Hollow SC594 RW...killer one piece quilt top and the pictured Honduran Rosewood neck was also selected. I'm going with a custom finish which won't be 100% locked in till I see some color samples and I have elected for Blade Knots over the typical birds.
So go forward about a month and Brian decided to do a Facebook live event, similar to PRS Periscope videos, where he went through the remaining 4 tops. While I passed on the interesting chevron curved flame top at his event but I found myself drooling over the top in his video and after thinking about what I would ever want out of a flame top, well...PS 6796 just had that something different compared to the typical straight grain flame...so I pulled the trigger!!
So ya....
...I've had "one in the oven" in the past, but the thought of having a double hitter was never something I thought that I would do. Man the next 9 months are going to fun waiting for these 2 axes to come together.
Good thing I had some credit left over!!! So after going back and forth on some specs this guitar is going to be an SC-HB1 Tiger Eye Smoked Burst with Birds of a Feather inlays / headstock. I've got some surprises on this build that I want to keep a mystery...but this is going to be a killer guitar once it's built! Oh and did I mentioned the Mahogany neck is an epic piece of flamed goodness?
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Two in the oven at once is a thing of beauty! 
