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Òåìà: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 06.04.2006 01:06 |
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Congratulations Mark on the birth of your new Shamray Custom Shop instrument (serial number CS 2006)! 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 2006: Construction Method: Custom-22-style body, set neck + carved top Material for neck: Mahogany Neck features: Standard 3-piece laminate, with 'wide-thin' profile Material for fretboard: Rosewood, 12 inch radius Frets: Sintoms "6100" (medium tall, AKA "Jumbo") Nut: Bone (from petrified Siberian woolly mammoth) Fret markers: Dots, plastic Fretboard binding: fretboard only (single layer) Truss rod cover: LP-style ("bell") Side markers: plastic dots Logo: Customer’s own logo. (details to be decided) Body wood: Mahogany (medium weight) Top wood: Maple (plain maple) Body binding: no binding Finish: Custom handpainted Red Square mural covering entire front of body Headstock Overlay: no headstock overlay (natural finish) Tone Chambers: no tone chambers (solidbody) Scale Length: 25.00 inches Strings: Ernie Ball 9's Machine heads: Gotoh (chrome) Neck Attachment: Not Applicable! (SET-NECK) Bridge: TREM: Hipshot Ball Bearing Tremelo (chrome) Strap buttons: chrome, standard (set of 2) Neck pickup: F.Chernyshev - humbucker Alnico (chrome cover or no cover) Bridge pickup: F.Chernyshev - humbucker Alnico (chrome cover or no cover) Pickup Bezels: NO BEZELS (pickups direct-mounted) Toggle switch: 4-pole, 5-position superswitch Output jack: switchcraft Potentiometers: CTS 500K vol + 1 pull pot 500K tone Knobs: Metallic, 2 pcs Tone Capacitors: metal foil Blueprinting: none (entire guitar from standard templates) Case: Custom-made lightweight case (black interior) Mural covering the whole body will be an original hand-painted "Red Square at Night" scene by Anya, done in traditional "russian lacquer-work" style. (attached is a very rough preliminary approximation of the design concept...) |
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Òåìà: Re: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 06.04.2006 08:58 |
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Hi Guys. I just want to say a few things. First: Wow, am I excited. This is going to be so cool. Second: Michael has been awesome through all this. Patient without end, helpful above-and-beyond what I had any right to expect, and extremely knowledgable about all things guitar. I'm gonna be in Moscow at the beginning on July, and I look forward to meeting Michael, and any other members of the Shamray team who might have a free moment to say Hi when I get there. Did I mention I was psyched? L8R, Mark |
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Òåìà: Re: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 06.04.2006 18:38 |
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update: your crafter will be Pasha Bashmakov. In fact, Shamray tells me he has started selecting wood for it today! 
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Òåìà: Re: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 06.04.2006 19:40 |
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Òåìà: Re: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 23.06.2006 19:51 |
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Òåìà: Re: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 23.06.2006 20:28 |
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Incredible artwork. | |
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Òåìà: Re: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 24.06.2006 13:25 |
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Trivia: the headstock logo reads "Mark Ericovich Thomsen", written in cyrillic characters and imaginatively hand-rendered in "PRS-style" font!
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Òåìà: Re: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 24.06.2006 18:21 |
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I take it the **** with the negative comment wasn't the owner... | |
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Òåìà: Re: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 24.06.2006 18:29 |
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Nope, was some 'dickhead' from England :=D | |
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Òåìà: Re: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 24.06.2006 20:42 |
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Do you know which one? ha | |
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Òåìà: Re: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 25.06.2006 16:16 |
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im sorry, it was out of order to put such a negative comment out them. it was really wrong. i would hate it if anyone did that on my custom thread if i was to have one built. i just thought it looked different from the artwork request, but that doesnt warrant a flame. sorry. i hold shamray in such high regard, ino theyre capable of a lot of good work. sorry again... 
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Òåìà: Re: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 25.06.2006 17:17 |
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I think its cool that you appologize! Maybe you went by the picture in the mok-up. I agree it doesnt look like the picture! But... in the guitars specs it says " done in traditional "russian lacquer-work" style" and i guess thats what Anya has done. Personaly i would have liked it to be as close as possible as the "original" picture as well. And having seen examples of the things Anya can pull off i know she could make it exactly like that! But Mark wants it done in this particular style so thats what he gets. Again though cool of you to make this statement. |
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Òåìà: Re: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 25.06.2006 18:12 |
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Would have been cooler of him not to have made the negative comment in the first place. | |
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Òåìà: Re: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 25.06.2006 20:36 |
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 it is cool that you apologize... people don't do that often nowadays....
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Òåìà: Re: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 26.06.2006 01:15 |
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Yes... and for anyone else who didnt notice - the mockup is simply a postcard photograph that i superimposed in the outline of a guitar body. The actual artwork is an original hand painting of an 'idealized' scene that doesnt really exist in real life (Because of the slope of the hill on red square, you actually cant see the clock tower AND St. Basil's AND the Kremlin Dome AND the Kremlin Wall Necropolis all together in the same scene!) By request, this guitar painting is done in a VERY specific traditional Russian style (just look at any "Red October" chocolate wrapper to see the same style!) If Mark had ASKED for a photo-realistic style mural, thats what Anya would have painted for him! But he specifically requested something more tradtional... |
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Òåìà: Re: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 26.06.2006 21:43 |
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Regardless of your thoughts, you don't piss over someone elses dream. | |
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Òåìà: Re: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 01.07.2006 18:54 |
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Òåìà: Re: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 01.07.2006 19:02 |
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Yes, it definitely looks just like soviet postcards or pics in children's books of that time Nice work!
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Òåìà: Re: CS-2006 - Shamray Custom Shop "THOMSEN CUSTOM" for Mark Thomsen (Arizona, USA)
Âðåìÿ: 01.07.2006 21:13 |
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Its REALLY nice work! I play-tested CS-2006 for a few minutes today - I have to say that it turned out VERY nice indeed Here is a (fuzzy) pic of the guitar in action, taken at the (very interesting and informative) Guitar Master Class that Mark gave here in Moscow this afternoon. (Hopefully Shamray can post some better quality pics later!) |
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Òåìà: What a trip, what a guitar!
Âðåìÿ: 21.07.2006 18:16 |
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Hey Guys, I'm finally stateside, and dying for my CS-2006 to arrive. There's so many people to thank, but I'll start with the one person I didn't get to thank in person: Anya. She did a fantastic job with the artwork, exactly as I had imagined it. What's great about the artwork is that it has a dreamy, idealized feeling about it, like a child's fond memories of what Moscow looks like. And the thing is a monster. The neck fits like a glove, the pick-ups crunch, the whole guitar plays fast and crisp. Once again, exactly as I'd hoped for. So, to Shamray (Sasha), and Pasha, and Michael, and Anya, and also to Alex Japranin (and his wife Marina), and Rob, I'd like to express my huge gratitude for your awesome work, your generous hospitality, and all the time and help and especially the friendship you offered while I was in Moscow. Those gestures of friendship were as cool as the guitar itself, and that's saying something! Duh fstrAY-chee! Mark |
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