So here we have my latest build. This is the third Golden Lion model that I have built, this one being for my own personal collection, mainly for the purpose of being a demo model. the way I built it is neck through body: neck through core is 2 piece mahogany with a 1/4" purpleheart stringer in the middle. fretboard is purpleheart with 1/8" red oak binding.

24 frets and a zero fret: zero fret and first 3 frets are stainless steel, the remaining 21 frets are nickel silver. inlays are pearloid and abalone blocks. body wings are 7/8" walnut top, 1/8" mahogany center, and 3/4" poplar back. control cavity cover is 1/8" purpleheart. pickups are Fender style Wide Range neck humbucker, wired to its own 3 way mini toggle coil select switch and neck add switch for when using the bridge pickup, middle pickup is a GFS humbucker sized P-90 single coil, and bridge pickup is a 14K Fender humbucker, also wired to its own 3 way mini toggle coil select switch.the 3 pickups are wired to a standard CRL 5 way switch, 500K volume and 250K tone. Bridge is a Washburn Wonderbar trem. tuners are Proline self-locking tuners. nut behind the zero fret is bone. strung with 11's. finished in a subtle cherry burst and cleared with 5 coats of high gloss poly. weighs 8 lbs, 1 lb of which is the bridge! that's a heavy block of metal! lol. forgot to mention that the nut width is 1 3/4", neck thickness is 22mm front to back and a full "C" shape carve. scale length is 25.5", like a Strat. She plays and sounds absolutely fantastic, a real joy. To really get a good idea of what it took to go from raw timber to playable instrument, check out the following pictures.