Been doing a lot of tweaking on Gilad’s new guitar! He’s been traveling for the last several weeks and left his new axe with me to tweak and adjust. The longer you wait before making final adjustments on a new guitar, the more likely the guitar has finished reacting / settling to the new tension of the strings. This lessens the chance that it will need more adjusting other than typical seasonal stuff a few times a year. So this new guitar has had plenty of time and i was able to dial in a killer string set and playing feel. Gilad plays with a super light touch and very precise technique and asked for a very fast setup with ultra low action. Its playing great!
Heres a quick and dirty impromptu video i did with the guitar at the shop. Making these guitars is so much fun, but the most fun is playing them of course :^) so i take the liberty of doing lots of noodling on everyones guitars. Yea- I’m “working” thats it haha. Reaaallly looking forward to what happens when Gilad starts using it!! wooooooo
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Gilads Specs:
Measurements: 2-3/4″ body depth, 15″ body width
Neck material: Spanish Cedar w/two way adjustable truss rod
Headstock overlay: ebony
Nut width: 1-11/16
Nut Material: bone
Headstock inlay: logo only
Fingerboard: indian rosewood
Fingerboard radius: 12″
Scale length: 25″
No of frets: 22
Fret size: jumbo
Fingerboard inlay: side dots, small “OM” at 12th fret
Soundboard material: carved Euro cello spruce (i said sitka in vid but its Euro oops)
Bracing: small internal block
Soundholes: Cats eye
Back/Sides materials: carved Euro cello maple high flame
Binding package: unbound
Finish: Brown / amber tiger eye double stain w satin topcoat
Bridge: ebony / tuno
Tailpiece: ebony
Tuning gears: gotoh delta in black
Pickups: built in humbuckers (2 Kent Armstrong hand wound PAF wind)
Hardware and electronics: vol tone mounted to top, side output jack, 3 way on lower bout
