SHAMRAY GUITARS GALLERY CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France)

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Тема: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France)
Время: 06.04.2004 00:08

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.

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 06.04.2004 01:22
Stephane	As usual: thanx Michael.
Stephane

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 08.04.2004 04:09
Richard K	Looks cool!
Richard K

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Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France)
Время: 09.04.2004 00:12

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Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 09.04.2004 03:22
Stephane	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.
Stephane

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 09.04.2004 12:11
Michael Walker Москва	'rough' is completely normal, much of that wood will be carved away to make the traditonal "violin-shaped" LP top. The fifth picture (Shamray took it, not me) looks like just an indication of the location of the walnut headstock laminate. I dont think it is the actual one, as it looks too thin...
Michael Walker Москва

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 11.04.2004 00:30
Stephane	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.
Stephane

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 11.04.2004 15:24
Aleksandr Shamray	This is the celluloid 0.8mm for binding. I need more detailed description of skulls - we can start the artwork on next week.
Aleksandr Shamray

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 11.04.2004 18:02
Stephane	Is the top already arched? I can't quite see it on the pics.
Stephane

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 11.04.2004 19:50
Aleksandr Shamray	Yes, top is allready arched.
Aleksandr Shamray

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 11.04.2004 20:55
Stephane	Aleksander I sent you an email about the skulls description, hope all is fine!
Stephane

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 11.04.2004 21:40
Aleksandr Shamray	I got your e-mail. Tomorrow I shall print it in colour and show to the crafter.
Aleksandr Shamray

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 13.04.2004 04:32
Stephane	Hi, is the crafter (Andre) supposed to do the skull carvings or a woodcarver? BTW, anymore progress? Thanx!
Stephane

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 13.04.2004 08:31
Aleksandr Shamray	No, he will pepare the guitar and another crafter will do the woodcarving.
Aleksandr Shamray

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 14.04.2004 18:36
Stephane	Great! The walnut top looks really good. Can't wait to see the neck now...Will the maple fretboard be a little figured?
Stephane

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 16.04.2004 15:50
Stephane	Sorry again but I can't tell from the pics: is the binding really cream-colored? Oh and again everything looks great so far.
Stephane

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 06.05.2004 16:07
Stephane	Hi, no updates? Especially of the neck, fretboard or artwork...
Stephane

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 12.05.2004 10:18
Aleksandr Shamray	Crafter works on carving at home.
Aleksandr Shamray

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 13.05.2004 20:46
Stephane	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!
Stephane

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 14.05.2004 15:54
koen	these are just drawings... will it actually be carved into the top?
koen

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 14.05.2004 16:44
Stephane	Yeah, these drawings are meant to be carved...
Stephane

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 15.05.2004 19:24
Patrick	I agree very nice work and great design to start from:)
Patrick

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 19.05.2004 02:32
Stephane	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?
Stephane

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Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 22.05.2004 00:44
Patrick	put sum red leds in the "eyes" of the big skull under the bridge lol:lol: nah jk awsome top!
Patrick

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 22.05.2004 01:10
genna	Картина Верещагина "Апофеоз войны"
genna

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 22.05.2004 10:26
Aleksandr Shamray	http://www.shamray.ru/shamray_custom_cherep.html
Aleksandr Shamray

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 30.05.2004 20:08
Stephane	I tried to email Michael but they keep being sent back to me, what's happening??
Stephane

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 30.05.2004 23:52
Michael Walker Москва	"SHAMRAY.NET" email server has been down since friday! hopefully they shall fix it SOON
Michael Walker Москва

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 04.07.2004 01:20
Vitaly Olivskaya	это - гребаная самая горячая гитара в мире скала черепов!!!!
Vitaly Olivskaya

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 04.07.2004 01:26
Vitaly Olivskaya	между прочим, я - звезда порно
Vitaly Olivskaya

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 05.07.2004 13:16
Игорь	2: Vitaly Olivskaya. Так может вам надо было на другой форум?
Игорь

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 19.07.2004 16:17
Crazy Eddie	More photos please! This is a work of art. - Ed
Crazy Eddie

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0030 - Shamray Custom Shop ‘SKULL-P’ for Stephane Rudkiewicz (France) Время: 28.07.2004 09:42
Odyssey	Реальная, блин, гитара.Мастера у вас клевые.Сначала гитара невзрачно выглядела, а потом...Надеюсь, звук тоже не хуже.
Odyssey