OK so several weeks ago, I had my new friend, Gregory Ram, come by to commission me to build him his very own custom guitar. I showed him my main Golden Lion and he said that that was the style he wanted. You can see me holding both my original one and Gregory’s new Golden Lion in the photo to the right of this article. After discussing certain specifics, such as neck size, pickup configuration, etc, I got to work on the guitar you see here. I must say, in my humble opinion, she is a real beauty.

The neck is 5 piece-maple and walnut, rosewood fretboard, 24 frets, 25.5" scale length. The body is comprised of 4 pieces of butternut, and 1 piece of poplar, with a 3 piece top consisting of 2 pieces of 1/8" thick purpleheart with a piece of 1/8" red oak in the center. Purpleheart control cavity cover, and truss rod cover. It has the extreme belly and arm carves that are standard on this and my Fin models, making her an extremely comfortable guitar. And she only weighs 6.5 lbs.

The hardware consists of Pro Line self locking tuners, 1 5/8" wide bone nut, Stetsbar trem bridge, neck and bridge GFS Fat Pat humbuckers, Danelectro lipstick single coil middle pickup, master 500K volume and 250K tone pots, 5 way CRL switch, 3 position coil select mini toggle swith for the neck, and for the bridge pickups, and a neck add switch for adding the neck pickup to the bridge pickup. She is fully setup with 10's, as requested.

The action is low and fast, with no buzz, and the intonation is perfect all the way up the neck. This guitar has a great resonance to her, that really shows when strummed acoustically, which only enhances the amplified tones.