Время: 05.03.2004 11:17
Автор: Michael Walker
Тема: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

Congratulations Harry, on the birth of your new Shamray Custom Shop guitar (serial number CS 0039)!
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 0039:

Detailed specification of Guitar: CS-0039 "the X that should not be..."

Left Hand “KL explorer”- style,  shaped just like an ‘ESP explorer’ set neck guitar (including position of fret board, volume & toggle switch position)  Entire guitar will have oil and wax finish.

 

 

-24.75 scale with “ESP” neck profile. Width of neck at the nut 1 5/8"

 

-headstock thickness to be 5/8”, veneer on the headstock should be 1/16”  - CARVED-FILLETED headstock (see pics)

 

-Khaya body with bubinga top and headstock cap, with walnut veneers in between the body/ top & headstock/cap

 

-set neck, with EXTENDED neck tenon, (to reach the beginning of the bridge pickup)   “HOT ROD” truss rod w/hex nut.

 

-bubinga control cavity cover shaped like KL explorer ones

 

- special design located at the top of the headstock, done in MOP

 

-Shamray Custom Shop logo on back of headstock

 

-Light-colored figured wenge fretboard, 22 frets (‘ESP explorer’ radius ) EBONY truss rod plate

 

-Black TOM hardware, Black screws and jack plate.

 

-3 piece laminate neck (mahogany) – with 2 graphite reinforcement rods (one on either side of truss rod)


-black mounting rings, knobs, toggle switch and jack plate. Black toggle switch tip.

 

-Graphite nut – D’addario EXL 115 strings, set to medium to low action (suitable for drop-B tuning)

 

-sperzel black 3x3 trim-lok tuners (like the ones on esp les pauls)

 

-EMG 81/60 pickups

 

-GREEN fibre optic side markers – BLACK mini switch for turning off lights

 

-black Dunlop straplocks

 

-CUSTOM FRETBOARD INLAYS done in MOPdesign pending, client will provide artwork
(US$450 fretboard inlay allowance included in quote).

 

-Custom made light-weight flightcase

 


     
Время: 05.03.2004 15:17
Автор: << Gar
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
Hi, Harry // It's me //

Congratulations // My guitar already almost done //

     
Время: 14.04.2004 22:03
Автор: Aleksandr Shamray
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 09.05.2004 00:41
Автор: Michael Walker

Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

spec updates:


ribbon-figured Khaya body, ribbon-figured Khaya neck (3-piece neck)

graphite neck re-inforcements embedded either side of truss rod


     
Время: 12.05.2004 10:41
Автор: Aleksandr Shamray
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
Wery exotic woods :)
     
Время: 12.05.2004 21:26
Автор: HACK
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
Thanks. I tried to get all the woods used for this guitar grown in Africa. :D
     
Время: 12.05.2004 23:06
Автор: Michael Walker

Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
Harry, yer email just bounces and bounces, so i will post my last email here (along with a down-sized picture):

your neck wood arrived today ( pic)

I guess your body wood will be here in another week or two!   About top wood: i went to take new photos and found out that "78" and "79" are actually THE SAME PIECE ( just with the paper template the other way around). So i think its safe to say if we use that and flitchmatch it, we will get exactly the effect you are looking for.

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Время: 23.06.2004 12:51
Автор: Michael Walker

Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
its in the QUEUE as of today - see spec update above...
     
Время: 11.09.2004 11:09
Автор: Aleksandr Shamray
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
Поехали :)
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Время: 28.09.2004 12:06
Автор: Aleksandr Shamray
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 02.10.2004 01:33
Автор: Michael Walker

Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
Hi Harry!

your MSN account is bouncing back ALL of my emails, as is your other one, (apparently its forwarding to the MSN account...) Can you please email me ASAP with an email address that works?? 

thanks

     
Время: 06.10.2004 13:12
Автор: Aleksandr Shamray
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 08.10.2004 03:47
Автор: HACK
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
:lol:
     
Время: 08.10.2004 04:02
Автор: HACK
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
Who is that laughing? That's not me.
     
Время: 15.10.2004 20:54
Автор: Michael Walker

Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
A clone? (mystifying)

REMINDER FOR HARRY: Send us the 1st fret neck profile! Thanks....

     
Время: 16.10.2004 13:00
Автор: Aleksandr Shamray
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 16.10.2004 13:01
Автор: Aleksandr Shamray
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 16.10.2004 13:02
Автор: Aleksandr Shamray
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

     
Время: 05.11.2004 09:08
Автор: Aleksandr Shamray
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 05.11.2004 09:09
Автор: Aleksandr Shamray
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 05.11.2004 09:10
Автор: Aleksandr Shamray
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 13.11.2004 21:23
Автор: Aleksandr Shamray
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 13.11.2004 21:45
Автор: Garage™
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
Why it such wide???
     
Время: 13.11.2004 22:40
Автор: Aleksandr Shamray
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
It slims :)
     
Время: 20.11.2004 11:07
Автор: Aleksandr Shamray
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 27.11.2004 00:57
Автор: Garage™
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

It's will be cool :)


     
Время: 29.11.2004 18:43
Автор: Torwell
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
somebody's gonna rip Hetfileld's ass with that thing :))
     
Время: 04.12.2004 07:34
Автор: HACK
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 05.12.2004 01:12
Автор: Garage™
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
Looks like KL #2 ;)
     
Время: 05.12.2004 01:46
Автор: HACK
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
Yeah but James' one is more darker. This one has orange and red and burgundy in it and James' one only has red in it.
     
Время: 10.12.2004 00:05
Автор: Aleksandr Shamray
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 15.01.2005 16:04
Автор: Michael Walker

Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
Status report: Dudnik is still out of the country (he went to visit his family for holidays, and paperwork difficulties are preventing him from re-entering Russia!) 

Currently, Stepanov estimates that he won't be back any sooner than the 20th, so unfortunately your guitar is "In Limbo" till then :sweat:

     
Время: 16.01.2005 14:13
Автор: Garage™
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
Where is Dudnik lives? He's not from Moscow?

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3 piece mahogany neck? for what?

     
Время: 16.01.2005 16:32
Автор: Michael Walker

Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
Dudnik lives in Moscow, but he's not "from Moscow" (something like me...)

Three piece neck is cut from a single board, but in a clever way so that the grain in all three pieces is opposing. This results in a substantially stronger, stiffer, and more stable neck. It also sounds better that equivalent 1-piece necks...

     
Время: 16.01.2005 18:26
Автор: HACK
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
I hope the middle stripe doesn't stand out when the neck is oiled and waxed. Hey Garage, what's up? What's the status report on Dudnik's location? Did u guys conduct a search party on him......lol
     
Время: 18.01.2005 20:02
Автор: << Garage >
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
Michael, great! I hope, that I shall soon work with you.
     
Время: 18.01.2005 20:15
Автор: Garage™
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

Do not worry, Harry. In what a problem? Your guitar is suspended?


     
Время: 21.01.2005 19:22
Автор: Michael Walker

Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

     
Время: 21.01.2005 19:26
Автор: Michael Walker

Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
a little news - Dudnik has called and says his visa paperwork will go through in two days.

So he should be back at work next week ...

     
Время: 23.02.2005 23:04
Автор: Aleksandr Shamray
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 09.04.2005 01:26
Автор: Michael Walker

Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
approaching completion...

Abalone diamond fretmarkers are integral to Harry's "diamondback" inlay design, inlaid with more than 50 pieces of Gold and White pearl with scrimshaw engraving

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Время: 23.04.2005 22:18
Автор: CreationSeries
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
woodwork is all done, next up will be the oil finishing...
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Время: 25.04.2005 23:14
Автор: CreationSeries
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 10.05.2005 16:11
Автор: CreationSeries
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 18.05.2005 21:24
Автор: CreationSeries
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 19.05.2005 16:51
Автор: Lucian Moynihan

Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
now thats an inlay and a half
     
Время: 21.05.2005 22:34
Автор: CreationSeries
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 21.05.2005 23:38
Автор: Marcel Havenith
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
Beautiful...
     
Время: 07.06.2005 13:44
Автор: CreationSeries
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 26.06.2005 17:59
Автор: Steve Hill
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
Beautiful Splorer the inlays are absulutely georgeous. 
     
Время: 21.07.2005 14:29
Автор: CreationSeries
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

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Время: 21.07.2005 21:27
Автор: Michael Walker

Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

its on its way... should be arriving within the week :)


     
Время: 26.07.2005 21:55
Автор: Michael Walker

Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
I have just received word that CS-0039 has arrived HOME :)


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Время: 26.07.2005 22:16
Автор: Shamray.Ru
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)

Congratulations!!!


     
Время: 27.07.2005 02:01
Автор: HACK
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
Thanks. BTW, to everyone else who is getting a shamray, or to future people want one, the pictures don't do the quality and looks justice. They sound and look better than expected. I just needed a quick dusting and string stretching and I"m on my way. Right now, I'm babying it, keeping it in the case(which was a little dusty too :-) )instead of putting it on the guitar rack with the other guitars. Once I break her in, she will join her siblings. If I ever get that much money again, I might get another guitar from you guys(maybe a flying v shape or lp shape; I have a few ideas). Thanks guys.
     
Время: 27.07.2005 16:44
Автор: Steven C. Hill
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
Harry, Steve here, just want to let everyone who is and will get a Shamray guitar in the future that Harry's guitar sounds incredible.  Though I'm not into EMG's this guitar has so much crunch when distorted and really has unbelievable clarity when played clean.  I saw the inlays on a online camera and it looks even better than on this site.  Gotta tell Ya Harry looks and sounds Happy!!!  Have Fun Harry.
     
Время: 31.07.2005 15:23
Автор: phil scanlan
Тема: Re: CS 0039 - Shamray Custom Shop "the X that should not be..." for Harry Laughlin (MD, USA)
congrats once again dude!

God I'm stinging for mine!

     
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