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Old 08-07-2012, 05:51 PM
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Cool 79490

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Originally Posted by Brian Keogh View Post
Ok here is my Beauty #79490...The BEAST!!....This is a 1989 (3 KNOB!) custom black walnut, maple & mahogony core I do believe...Not sure what the dark wood running through the neck is....But the fret board is the most highly figured Ebony? I have ever seen...is it quarter sawn to get that figure?
It has been my baby for the last 6 years & is MINT...now two baby's later I may need to unload this treasure soon..but only to a players home....if I can bare to part with it!

Thanks Ken & crew!

BK
The number 794 90 is from 1990 unless it was numbered in advance which I doubt and was completed before the new year in '89. What is the actual date on the label? Can you show that?

The neck strips if dark brown are Morado.

The fingerboard is wavy grain ebony, possibly Macassar but could be Indian. Figure would be a pattern running across the grain like the flames in the walnut. Quartersawn grain would be straight up and down but can be wavy depending how the tree grew.
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