Congratulations Stephane, on the birth of your new Shamray Custom Shop guitar (serial number CS 0030)!
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 0030:

Detailed specification of Guitar:  CS-0030 ‘SKULL-P’

LP Custom style body with carved walnut top and a very light oil finish for a raw feel.

Body: mahogany medium weight with natural dark brown color to match natural color of walnut top. Oil finish.

Top Wood: deep dark brown walnut arched-top like on Zakk Wylde’s signature model, oil finish, elaborate hand-carving: see drawing.

Neck: set neck to body, maple, shaved with “U” style headstock/neck heel (see drawing), ’54 Gibson Les Paul profile a.k.a. “baseball bat”.

Fretboard: maple with WHITE mother-of-pearl block inlays, “fretless wonder” (6130-size) frets.

Headstock: same size as Shamray’s “Ace Frehley”, maple with a walnut facing including a skull carved between the first 2 sets of machine heads, initials S R in pearl inlays on the upper part of the head (see drawing), Gold bell-shaped truss rod cover, bone nut.

Binding: cream color -single layer on fretboard, but multi-layer on headstock(7), front(7) and back of body(5).

Hardware: gold tune-o-matic bridge and tailpiece, gold “kidney beans” machine heads, gold strap locks, gold pickup covers with gold pickup rings, gold jackplate cover, no “rhythm/treble” ring but gold ring around the selector, no pickguard, strings Ernie Ball, 10-50 would be perfect.

Electronics: US-made pots, switch and jack, usual LP Custom wiring, 2 volume, 2 tone.

Knobs: 4 amber top hat.

Pickups: Chernishev’s custom hand-wound pickups made to Duncan EVH specs for the bridge position, Alnico II magnet and impedence of 9.1k.,  good mids and bass, soft top-end response. Duncan Seth Lover for the neck position with a little bit more bass and output (for added growl when distorted). Zebra (cream/black) colored coils for both pickups.

Case: molded plastic flight case Pro-El.

Note: Shamray Custom Shop logo on back of the headstock (nothing on the front apart for the initials and the skull carved as specified above). SR 171078 carved on the back of the headstock in the same dimension as Gibson’s serials and Shamray’s serials just under in smaller letters. Crafter’s signature should be carved on the back of the headstock between the serials and Shamray’s logo.

That is really fast! Looks ok so far yet the top seems real rough, is it normal? Will it be "refined" later? What does the 5th pic represent?
Thanx.

That's a really fast and efficient work! It looks really great!
I suppose the big black plate is part of the binding isn't it?
Keep up the good work.

This is the celluloid 0.8mm for binding.
I need more detailed description of skulls - we can start the artwork on next week.

I got your e-mail. Tomorrow I shall print it in colour and show to the crafter.

No, he will pepare the guitar and another crafter will do the woodcarving.

Skull will be there.

Crafter works on carving at home.

That's an amazing job, it's absolutely perfect, it's far far better than my original idea and everything is magnified.
The artist did a gorgeous job and I thank him greatly. You got my absolute approval.

Thanx a lot!

Yeah, these drawings are meant to be carved...

Hehe you can trust the Sharmay guys, they're the best.

It looks so good I can't wait for the next pics.

BTW, Michael I sent you several emails, I have some problems with my mailbox, did you get any of them?