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My Guitar Juliet, I have about $3,700 invested into this guitar, I created this guitar myself, it was my original concept and my own vision:

$500.00 My Name Custom Inlay work on fretboard and fret job by inlay artist Paul Bordeaux who's also done work for Albert Collins, Steve Vai, Eric Clapton, etc.

$330.00 Warmoth Neck, VINTAGE MODERN FEATURES CONSTRUCTION,MAPLE/EBONY FRETBOARD, 1 11/16" NUTWIDTH, SRV BACK CONTOUR, 6100 FRETS (ON THE SIDE/NOT INSTALLED),PLANET WAVES TUNER REAM, NO FACE DOTS/YES SIDE DOTS

$280.00 Mammoth Guitars Alder Body Blank cut & routed

$396.00 Kinman AVN-Blues Pickups with K9 No Solder Harness

$174.00 Musicians Friend & stewmac.com order for:Black Non-Tremelo Strat Bridge, Graph Tech Strat Style Saddles Set/6, 6 Black String Mounting Ferrules 3/8, Dunlop Dual Design Strap Lock System, Planet Waves Auto Trim Tuning Machines 6 In Line Black

$15.00 black jack plate from stewmac.com

$20.00 custom engraved neck plate from www.nygdesigns.com

$1,500.00 Artistic Carvings on guitar (Romeo & Juliet)
$500.00 Custom Inlay work on fretboard and fret job
$330.00 Warmoth Neck, VINTAGE MODERN FEATURES CONSTRUCTION,                                            MAPLE/EBONY FRETBOARD, 1 11/16" NUTWIDTH, SRV BACK CONTOUR, 6100 FRETS (ON THE
      SIDE/NOT INSTALLED), PLANET WAVES TUNER REAM, NO FACE DOTS/YES SIDE DOTS                                                                   
$280.00 Mammoth Guitars Alder Body Blank cut & routed
$396.00 Kinman AVN-Blues Pickups with K9 No Solder Harness
$174.00 Musicians Friend & stewmac.com order for:Black Non-Tremelo Strat Bridge, 
        Graph Tech Strat Style Saddles Set/6, 6 Black String Mounting Ferrules         3/8, Dunlop Dual Design Strap Lock System, Planet Waves Auto Trim Tuning Machines 6 In Line Black
$15.00 black jack plate from stewmac.com
$20.00 custom engraved neck plate from www.nygdesigns.com
$85.00 canada customs charge
$38.00 shipping of case to canada
$6.00 shipping of parts to canada
$15.00 Shipping Neck to NY
Graph Tech String Retainers Set of 2, mounting screws 
included ($4.78 with Shipping Express to Canada $33.99
Graph Tech Nut with Express Shipping to Canada $45.58
additional Labor compensation $200.00



$3,639

+ about $70 for extra set of tuners & additional set up and misc costs

plus $285 keyboard case skb to fit guitar


PS: I'm thinking of either putting a rose on the top of the headstock or a lions head and a rose... difficult to say. We'll see. I have to have a look at it on the body before I decide that and I won't have the neck for another couple of weeks at least by the sounds of it.

Now I've put the slightest bit of colour on the rose. I noticed some green in the abalone and a hint of blue [or close enough]. SO... I've given the bluesman a bit of blue on his Rose.


If you look in her hand on the blacony you can see a rose. I'm thinking of doing the vines as rose vines on the balcony. We'll see though. I don't want to overdo it.


Romeo, that stuff isn't going to be a big deal. 25.5 scale is the fender scale. I was at Dave's tonight and he has the fret saw and Fender template for the fret markers and it says right on it 25.5. So I should be able to line the bridge up with the pickguard as usual and get a good intonation out of it. I'll leave like a quarter inch to spare around their anyway. Remember we had him add 2 inches onto the butt for more carving room anyway. So we'll be cool.


I've got the ground coming up under that tailpiece By the way and touching a bit of the plate underneath that I buffed the paint off of with a wire wheel [better contact. It's all shielded with the Copper tape [real copper just thin and with adhesive]. So, it should be even quieter than usual with the Kinman's.


I'm thinking of having pillars behind her at the doorway to her rooms and having lion heads at the tops of the pillars. I'm also considering carrying the small angel them to the balcony and having them watching the two of you in approval. The two angels I'm thinking of doing will be you and your brother as twins from the child pictures you sent. I like the feel of that as this relationship with your girl as being something children dream of happening when they reach this point in your life.


The intonation will be do-able. The action will be as low as you can get it if you want that. I means the neck will be sitting one sixteenth of an inch our of the pocket higher than usual. So, you adjust the saddles to compensate is all. It should be okay. To my eye it looked a little shallow so I checked it against the fender bodies I have here and that's what I found. I was already into carving it. I'm sure you could lay a template over it perhaps and take the 16th off at some point but I don't think it's a big deal. I'm not doing that at an rate.


No worries. I think the neck pocket is a sixteenth of an inch shallower than normal as well but I think you can adjust the bridge saddles to compensate. Not sure I'm comfortable with the idea of going in there with a router at this point in the game.


I checked it against a new strat and a body I've just got in from WD music. They're both a match to each other but this is just a tad shallow.


Don't let that bother you though. As I say, you can make an adjustment at the bridge saddles. A sixteenth ain't that big a deal.


Well I'm staying away from the bridge area for now and waiting. I'm going to have vines going up the wall under Silly Girl there.


I have the lower horn shorter already but have a scene I'm fitting in down there by it. I'll thing about what you said and what I said before. The top horn is drawn in already as a long feather quill going to a hand writing.


I'll let you know when something happens. The ladies here approve too of the positioning and venux whispering in one ear of shakespeare as Eros / Venus hands him a feather on his other side [this is down by the lower horn].


My mind has been floating in and out of the love theme of Romeo and Juliet and the feather Quill of Will Shakespeare.


I think I will have you playing the lute to Juliet to fit the period.


Cupid handing a feather from his Wing to Shakespeare, who is writing. Then an open hand at the top offering the quill up for the long top horn.


There will be more, small things but these will be the objects of the them in continuity from bottom to top.


There will be a motion from one side of the guitar around to the other.


In short, Cupid / Eros and possibly Venus being the Muse / Muses for William Shakespear who writes his immortal play. I remember you liked the painting of Aphrodite / Venus and now I think we can work it in.


But I do love the idea of Shakespear borrowing his feather pen from the wing of Cupid to write the story of Romeo and juliet. NEVER have I seen THAT one done. Imagine... a first on this story in composition in 400 years! [laughs] If anybody else has done this I've not heard of it. It'll be very very cool man.


I'm not sure if you can see what's going on by them but they are what they are. The pen starts a line of ribbon like material that weaves in and out of the story all the way to the other horn. It gets held up and played with from time to time by the twin angels at top [you and your twin brother] and weaves into the candle by the doorway at the balcony scene and weaves behind the Nurse from the play [that's who that is behind your girlfriend] it is down to the wrapping on Venus and held up over Shakespeare at the bottom.. so... who's writing who? Shakespeare??? God? Shakespeare?? His muses? It's all fun at any rate. I'm glad I though of it :P


Here is Romeo Rose's Juliet: This guitar incorporates Romeo's wish for a long horn guitar together with a theme that expresses his romantic life with his lady & the blues. So, we've got the balcony scene with Romeo playing his acoustic guitar to his girlfriend "silly girl" Susan. You'll find roses throughout on this guitar. The idea being, that Will Shakespeare gets his feather quill for writing the story of the guitar from Cupid /Eros and his Muse is none other than Cupid's mom Venus / Aphrodite. So the long horn becomes a quill in Shakespeare's hand that writes the story of the guitar. Romeo's twin brother is the angel with the harp over his head. Romeo Rose's Juliet Well, we finally got it together. The neck was built special for him at Warmoth, the inlay was done somewhere else. The pickups were ordered for and sent from Australia [Kinman] and the initial block of wood was sent up from Mammoth guitars according to some drawings we did.

Then, I drew up the long horns according to the theme we decided on and here it is. I figured with all of the elements Romeo gave me, the most obvious ended up being the best. In short, Shakespeare writes the guitar according to his inpiration received from his Muse Venus and his special writing quill that he receives from Cupid.

Romeo wanted a long horn, so I had to figure that out. We were thinking of everything from Dragons to Celtic knots. I'm glad we stayed with the Shakespeare romantic theme as it tied up nice right up there on the headstock.

















































































































































































































































































The inlays are hand cut and hand inlaid. No CNC was used.