Congratulations Mark, on the birth of your new Shamray Custom Shop guitar (serial number CS 0035)!
We will post pictures of it's construction-in-progress from time to time here in this thread.

For the curious, here are the specs on CS 0035:

Detailed specification of Guitar: CS-0035 ‘KING-BURST’

Set neck “LP-Std 59-burst” style, carved top with 22 frets. Inlaid pearl ‘traditional’ Shamray headstock logo.
Finish color on top to be ‘faded sunburst’ like BOTB cover. Usual ‘LP red pore filler’ with clear lacquer on neck & back.

Body & neck: One piece Mahogany body with carved AAA maple top. Mahogany neck. “1960-slim-taper” neck profile.
Fretboard: Rosewood with perloid trapezoid fret markers  - white plastic side dot markers.  22 jumbo frets. 10 inch radius.

Binding: single-layer cream around top of body, single layer cream around fretboard

Hardware: Nickle Tune-o-matic bridge & tailpiece, nickel gotoh “kluson”machine heads (plastic keystone buttons), bone nut,
Nickel Strapbuttons. Cream pickup rings, cream toggle switch tip, cream jackplate, cream pickguard.

Electronics: Usual LP std controls; 3-way toggle switch (USA), two volume, two tone.
100% cavity shielding. 500K pots. Vintage NOS oil & paper caps ( 0.022uF).

Knobs: 4 amber  ‘gibson hat’  knobs

Pickups: 2 Chernishev PAF ( BB2 & BB3 wind) with NICKEL covers

Case:    molded flight case.

Strings: Ernie Ball .010-46

Special: "Mark King model" in gold script where the usual silkscreen would be.

Note: Customer to approve headstock inlay artwork

Pavel Bashmakov (who made cs-0004, cs-0015) started work. He allready have the wood. Michael will make the pictures sooner.

Thanks for posting the photos.  I can't wait to see the rest of the guitar.   Is that Maxim or Pavel working on the neck in the last photo?

Well, Pavel will go on hollydays very soon. That is why Max makes your guitar.

I gave your guitar FINAL INSPECTION on Friday evening, and Shamray shipped it out today. So its ON ITS WAY.  

I will email you the tracking number as soon as Shamray gives it to me...