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Artisan Master  # 025

"Max & Bear"

Body - 1 piece African Mahogany (Chambered)
Top - 5A Birdseye top
Neck - Light weight Indian rosewood
Fingerboard - Flamed Brazilian Rosewood / 10" Radius / 25" Scale
Fretwire - 6150
Neck Carve - PRS Wide / Fat
No headstock overlay
Matching inlaid truss rod cover
One-piece tremolo - Nickel
Sperzels locking tuners - Nickel
Dunlop Straplocs - Nickel
Paua purfling - Body top & sides / fingerboard / headstock
Inlaid logo - Paua / pearl
Firesun position markers - Paua / pearl
Side-dots - White mother of pearl
Pickups - 2x Humbuckers (Rio Grande Tallboy/neck zebra - Muy Grande bridge zebra)
Controls - 1 Volume, 1 Tone, 5-way blade
#1 - Neck Hum.
#2 - Outer coils / hum canceling
#3 - Neck & Bridge Hum.
#4 - Inner coils / Hum canceling
#5 - Bridge Hum.
Color - Natural / Natural back.
Tremolo tip - Birdseye / small diameter
5-way tip - Birdseye

Options:
Rear tremolo cover plate inlay - Bear + Max with names engraved on banners.
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Well, Ron sent the set of birdseye WCR Darkbursts along with The Rose (AKA #72) Took them to my tech today. The metal ears on the pups were too deep for the original routs, so my guy had to take out the old Dremel and remove a little of the wood depth on the sides of each pickup. This guy (Bill from Dave's Sound Repair in Whippany NJ) is a real gifted repair guy, and is the only person other than Ron or Jack Gretz that I would trust with my Thorn. He was utterly blown away by the guitars, I had to take The Rose with me for him to duplicate the wiring for Max & Bear. A stunning success, and these pickups are just out of this world! Here's the post-surgery pic.