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Moser Custom Shop "Vintage Custom"

Hand crafted by Neal Moser  
( Neal Moser personal project series guitar)

                                        

SPECS.

Two piece Korina neck with solid Korina wings. Ebony finger board with Antique Ivroid binding and Snowflake Pearl diamond inlays. The head face is Ebony with a 1 1/4" high pearl MCS Tribal M inlay. The head face is also bound with Antique Ivroid binding.  1 11/16th" at the nut, 2 1/4" at the end of the fingerboard. Dunlop 6105 fret wire and 24 frets with a 20" finger board radius.

The hardware will be chrome and consist of a Badass bridge and Grover Super Rotomatics with the Imperial head. The finish will be "Vintage Trans Amber".

The electronics will be my full setup which includes Booster/varitone combo with phasing switch and a series/parallel for each pickup. It will also have a booster vol, master vol & tone and pickup selector switch.

The pickups will be Lace Sensor Drop & Gain with chrome covers.

This guitar is now SOLD.   Thanks Ronz :-)

                                        

         

         

         

         

         

         

         

                                         

This MCS "Vintage Custom" was hand carved using the original template. This is the first and only one that has ever been made of Korina. (White Limba).

                               

This is the original Seagull template.
  
It's really hard to take building pictures when YOU are doing the building, but here's a few. I'll try to do better next time.

                                    

I didn't take pics of the neck blank lay-up because there are already pics of that somewhere on this site. These pics show the finish body blank and the raw finger board shim. This shim continues the "built in" neck angle.

                                           

This next series of pics shows different angles of the completed shim.

          

This shim is planed to the correct angle BEFORE the rod is installed.

             

                                          

Sorry, I kinda jumped ahead a bit, but I get busy and forget to take pics. Especially at my age, you forget EVERYTHING at my age. :-)

         

I was putting the radius on the finger board in these pics.

         

This is where I use modern tools. I like to use these spring clamps to put on the head plate.
After I've put on the head plate, I cut out the shape of the headstock and then install the binding.
I wish I had time to show this in more detail, but at this time I can't. Hopefully in the future I'll have someone to take the pics while I'm installing binding. This headstock shape is fairly easy, but some of our OTHER headstocks are a NIGHTMARE to bind. I'll definitely take pics of the next one I do.

                                          

These are pics of the body after cutting it out on the band saw. You can still see the line around the body. I don't have a routing template for this shape, only the SHAPE template, SO, I had to take this one down to the line with the oscillating drum sander.
Finished

                                          

This guitar came out so good I waned to keep it. Earlleen siad NO. :-(   Lucky Ronz. ;-)

                                          

         

         

         

         

         

         

YUP, collectors piece, right out of the box.
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