To Fret or Not To Fret?

I noticed that my work comes in some fashion. If you've been following my work you'll realize a pattern i'm sure! Hmz. haha. Anyway here's some fret work.

First up, a rosewood fingerboard that's pretty old and worn. Owner wish to get back the feel of jumbo frets instead of jumbo flats. So upon removing all the old frets, i realized the dirty and worn board. Took the initiative to restore it back to glory.




Next up, Remember the black vine of life on a maple board? Yup, i've completed it's fretwork. Sorry to the owner for the delay, my band have quite some activities lately. Anyway dealing with maple is always tricky as they need extra care always. Anything wrong will result in an almost irreversible move. Masking tapes are called upon for this case.

Here's a close up of the fret edges :)

And the neck picture splitting into 4.

Bigsby B5 Installation

I'm glad i got to do this, again. I did it quite a while ago without taking any pictures! Now here comes another piece. This time round, a cij fender tele with a B5 with authentic Fender logo! Now that's cool.

Vine of Life

i have to praise that Steve Vai really created a very nice vine design for fingerboard. Recently i'm working on this "black and white" vine of life. This is not the first time i'm doing such inlay and i'm feeling the blessing from a cnc machine this time! These pieces you see are cnc cut and routed. I used to think CNC are like perfections, i am wrong. These are actually incurately routed on the fingerboard which resulted me doing more routing in order to let the pieces fit in. Nevertheless check out the pictures of the almost complete fingerboard.

Next step, clear coat and fretting! Fyi, this actually belongs to the b/w swirl jem body i've posted earlier on. The fingerboard was originally a normal maple fingerboard with black plastic dots and i swapped a new maple fingerboard on it.

It's all about inlays

Recently i was tasked to do a very special truss rod cover. I'm glad that it made a break through for Gr3y Custom Shop as it was the first time i did such things. So guys and girls! Anything you feel that i can do for you, don't hesitate.

Another great news for Gr3y Custom Shop is that i've managed to reduced the size of inlay i can handle! What does this mean? I'm able to do real small inlays for your sweet guitar :) Recently my friend Errik had his 21st birthday. To get a guitarist a present, it got to be related! Why? Majority will go for t-shirts, chocolates, jewellery etc.. those are plain boring to me. So somehow during a certain morning the thought of doing a real unique inlay for him came into my mind.

This inlay is 1.5cm wide. Made of Gold Mother of pearl and is ready to inlay into any fingerboard.

A New Adventure

So i was called upon to do this very interesting new thing for customizing a guitar. Make a guess.

Materials here are Mahogany and High grade Abalone shell

Remember the "marble" ? Alright, it's not a marble but a swirl jem. I'm glad that i helped in the process of glossing up this babe! Next step? I'm going to help this little monster get entangled in black vines! Keep a look out :D

Testimonials

I have nothing to say but your job is top notch. I'm very pleased and happy with the workmanship. Furthermore what impressed me was your regular updates and pics on the status of the job which I say is really service oriented. Not many people will take that step into giving regular updates u noe. Keep up the good work and I might just have another work for you in the coming future.

Regards,
Razi (owner of custom JPM fingerboard)

Clear Coating a Marble

Service fee: $250





I was pleased to be tasked to gloss up this little jem.

This thing needs no futher introduction or a full body picture. I'm not going to post full body pictures unless the owner agrees.
The owner bought this body from the states and it came unfinished. So instead of paying usd$200 for them to clear coat, he got me to take over this task.

Please do not start emailing me about swirl finish...... yet... :D


Regarding the JPM fingerboard, here's the picture of the completed job