Congratulations Paul, on the birth of your new Shamray Custom Shop guitar (serial number CS 0007)!
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 0007:

Detailed specification of Guitar: CS-0007 ‘LEFTY-X’

LEFT-HANDED Set-neck long neck tenon “Split-headstock Explorer”style.  24.75” scale length, 22 frets.
Finish color on body, neck & headstock: Black Sparkle lacquer. Shamray Custom Shop logo on back of headstock.

Body: ONE PIECE Korina mahogany
Neck: ONE PIECE Korina mahogany 24.75 inch scale, Small MOP “split-diamond” on 'split-V' headstock.
Fretboard: Rosewood (darkest possible) w/ MOP block markers. Black side dots. 22 Sintoms “6155” frets. 12” radius

Binding: 7-layer on top of body & headstock, single layer white around fretboard.

Hardware: GOLD Gotoh T-O-M, GOLD “grover kidney” style machine heads, petrified wooley mammoth ivory nut.
Gold Strap buttons, Gold Mirror pickguard & custom gold mirror truss rod cover.

Electronics: Volume. Volume,  Volume, Master tone, Switchcraft jack, (rectangular jack-plate), NO TOGGLE SWITCH,
( tone control in toggle switch location) 100% Shielding. NOS Vintage Oil-in-paper 0.022 uF capacitor
Knobs: 4 gold “hat” knobs.

Pickups: THREE Chernishev humbuckers with Gold covers (winding to be decided)

Case: no case

Strings: roundwound ERNIE BALL 10-46

Special: “big fat” neck profile  - to be copied from client’s own ‘60 LP special

Welcome, fellow lefty!  I"m getting a lefty kl made soon.

Michael used it's holder to make pic of  this Explorer.