The other new ship for the fleet.
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Decked out in the glorious colors of the Order of the Bloody Rose, the female Adepta Soritas, a.k.a. Nuns with Guns from Warhammer 40.000.
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Made from a gorgeous piece of zebrano wood, stained red and then finished with an oil finish. After that I made the inscriptions with a dremel and colored those black. Originally I wanted to use a laser engraver I got off Aliexpress, but Aliexpress lives up to its name. So I went with the engraving, and I think it came out well. A pair of Guitarfetish Dream 90 P90 pickups, my usual toggle and shadow kill pot kill switches and internally the Gregg Fryer treblebooster circuit again to drive a tube amp. This treblebooster has the advantage of using a BC239C silicon transistor, so no need to be bothered with finicky the right leakage germanium transistors. And Brian May uses it now, which is an additional bonus.
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Side engravings.
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My E.A. Guitars logo
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Bless the sinner as he burns. Cause the Nuns with Guns love to burn stuff.
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Emblems and symbols were all engraved using a dremel.
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Zebrano wood has an incredible wood grain, which the red stain kinda covered up, but you can still see it. I was very lucky to get this piece of wood. I recently went back to the wood shop and all the available zebrano wood piece they had were sawn the other way around. So you only get to see this incredible wood grain on the sides. Not that I am going to do another guitar using this type of wood. It's quite heavy and can splinter quite easily when routing it. It also releases a sort of urine smell when you saw or rout in it. As the wood store says, if it weren't for the wood grain people would only use this wood for pellets.
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Together with my trusty assistant for Zoom meetings and workouts, citizen G'Kar.