NGD Custom Built Guitar

Vhalen50

Vhalen50

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I commissioned a close friend of mine to build me a guitar from his recent new line of instruments His website is here. I thought you guys would appreciate it.

Specs go as follows:
-25.5" scale
-Spanish Cedar Core sandwiched between flame maple
-24 stainless medium jumbo frets
-Hipshot open gear locking tuners
-Graphtech nut
-Birdseye maple fretboard
-Roasted maple neck
-Compound radius fretboard
-4A Flame maple top and back
-Sophia 2:22 Trem
-Fishman fluence Classic pickups
-Luminlay side dots
-Ebony wood insert fretboard dots
-5 way super switch with some clever routing with a push pull tone
-Custom fabricated powder coated metal cavity cover
-Satin Jade Green Burst painted by Pat Wilkins

5 way operates like:
1 - Bridge voice 1 (pull for voice 3 Inner Coil)
2 - Bridge voice 1 (pull for voice 3 Inner Coil) / Neck Voice 3 Inner Coil
3 - Bridge voice 1 (pull for voice 3 Inner Coil) / Neck Voice 1
4 - Neck Voice 3 Outer Coil
5 - Neck Voice 1
( i wasnt a fan of voice 2 of the neck at all. and voice 2 of the bridge is great but flipping between them is a pretty drastic change in volume with how aggressive it is in comparison. I may either add voice 2 to a push pull on the volume, or install a mini toggle one day)

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Vhalen50 said:
I commissioned a close friend of mine to build me a guitar from his recent new line of instruments His website is here. I thought you guys would appreciate it.

Specs go as follows:
-Spanish Cedar Core sandwiched between flame maple
-24 stainless medium jumbo frets
-Hipshot open gear locking tuners
-Graphtech nut
-Birdseye maple fretboard
-Roasted maple neck
-4A Flame maple top and back
-Sophia 2:22 Trem
-Fishman fluence Classic pickups
-Luminlay side dots
-Ebony wood insert fretboard dots
-5 way super switch with some clever routing with a push pull tone
-Satin Jade Green Burst painted by Pat Wilkins

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Wow! Gorgeous!
 
GLiDE BPM said:
I love the one guitar I have Fishman Fluence pickups in as well!!!
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I have a PRS Cu22 that i put the devin set in that i like alot. I went with the classics in attempt to use this for the band i play in which is mainly country/southern rock and just the general sound i usually hear in my head. Im pretty happy with it once i finally got a switching scheme that worked for me.

That DT set is for when i need to play Juular.
 
Riccardo Ros said:
astonishing!
I suppose it plays like butter!
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Absolutely does. Action can go lower than youd think is humanly possibly and doesnt fret out, but im more of a medium height kinda guy. But everything's more than rock solid craftsmenship. Fretwork, balance, etc. He also does a bit of a trade secret of weight relief in the core of the body to the point you could almost call it a semi hollow with no F holes so it just has alot of resonance acoustically.
 
Gtrsolo350 said:
Very nice! I haven’t come across a Sophia trem before, I’ll have to check them out.
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i had never heard of it myself. It was his suggestion. I like 2 post trems but i didnt want to go with something as basic as saying put a fender american deluxe trem on it.
its got some neat features in that there is a trem stopper built into the brass block, but you can also opt for a block with trem stabilizers in it to provide resistance on double stop bends and stuff. I usually set all my trems to dive only, and its nice to not have to drill in a FU Tone L bracket.
 
Vhalen50 said:
I commissioned a close friend of mine to build me a guitar from his recent new line of instruments His website is here. I thought you guys would appreciate it.

Specs go as follows:
-Spanish Cedar Core sandwiched between flame maple
-24 stainless medium jumbo frets
-Hipshot open gear locking tuners
-Graphtech nut
-Birdseye maple fretboard
-Roasted maple neck
-Compound radius fretboard
-4A Flame maple top and back
-Sophia 2:22 Trem
-Fishman fluence Classic pickups
-Luminlay side dots
-Ebony wood insert fretboard dots
-5 way super switch with some clever routing with a push pull tone
-Satin Jade Green Burst painted by Pat Wilkins

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That looks fantastic - I wouldn't change a thing!
 
Vhalen50 said:
I commissioned a close friend of mine to build me a guitar from his recent new line of instruments His website is here. I thought you guys would appreciate it.

Specs go as follows:
-Spanish Cedar Core sandwiched between flame maple
-24 stainless medium jumbo frets
-Hipshot open gear locking tuners
-Graphtech nut
-Birdseye maple fretboard
-Roasted maple neck
-Compound radius fretboard
-4A Flame maple top and back
-Sophia 2:22 Trem
-Fishman fluence Classic pickups
-Luminlay side dots
-Ebony wood insert fretboard dots
-5 way super switch with some clever routing with a push pull tone
-Satin Jade Green Burst painted by Pat Wilkins

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This guitar just keeps blowing me away...... I mean, DAMN!!!!!!!
 
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