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    Join Date: Oct 2008

    Location: Glasgowshire

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    I'm Gary.

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    Mate of mine at work is a Luthier, starting out his own business and asked me to design his logo for him.
    As a mate I said sure, wasn't looking for anything for it, but wanted to help him out.



    He loved the Logo and as thanks said he's build me a custom guitar to my specs, I just buy the materials!
    Fantastic said I, and had a think about what I wanted.

    Figured out what I wanted and chose my materials.
    Custom job based on a Telecaster, but with custom headstock based on my logo design and Gibson style PAF pickups and hardware.
    Few other tweaks too going forward. Good the wood over to him yesterday.

    I'll update this thread as the build progresses.

    We CAD'd up the template and did a rough cut in MDF. Headstock matches the logo, tuners will be "upside down" Hendrix Strat style.


    So far Chose all my woods,
    Spalted Beech for the top wood, Wenge for the body.


    Mahogany/Maple laminate Neck, with patterned Ziricote for the fretboard.


    AC POWER
    Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
    AMPS
    Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
    SPEAKERS
    Wharfedale Evo 4.4
    DAC
    PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
    TURNTABLE
    Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
    PHONOSTAGE
    Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
    DIGITAL
    OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
    MUSIC PLAYBACK
    Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
    Ipad Roon Remote.
    Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
    SPEAKER CABLES
    Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On
    "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
    INTERCONNECTS
    All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables

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    Join Date: Feb 2008

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    Join Date: Nov 2018

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    I'm Stuart.

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    Interesting thread ,Gary
    I’ll be watching your progress

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    Join Date: Mar 2008

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    Nice one Gaz, looks like it’ll be great.
    “Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of fuel. Sentimental people call it inspiration, but what they really mean is fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio”

    Hunter S Thompson

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