Amboyna Lizard Guitar Specifications

-View Another Guitar Hawk Guitar LB "Rockabilly" Special Guitar Player Guitar RH Guitar SamBella Headless Bass Canary Guitar Lizard - Walnut Guitar Lizard - Chambered Guitar Lizard - Quilted Mahogany Guitar Amboyna Lizard Guitar Bat Bass Blue Funk Guitar Amboyna is one of the most "exotic", (and expensive), woods I've used. It's from a burl on a Padauk tree. When the burls arrived at Hearne's Hardwoods, I got first pick---an advantage of being friends with the owner! One of the pictures shows the selected burl being cut on Rick Hearne's immense band saw, sunken into a concrete pit, which can easily handle a six-foot diameter log! I brought along my "Lizard" body shape templates to make sure the pieces would each be big enough for the entire top and back since the pieces would not be bookmatched, but used whole. I would also need enough left over to make the headplate and control knob tops. For the 5 piece through-neck, we, (me and the customer), chose cherry, laminated with 2 strips of Padauk. Cherry was also used for the body core, and the fingerboard was cut from some beautifully figured Padauk. The control cavity cover was Gabon Ebony. The full shielding and the rare earth magnets that hold the cover in place can be seen in the close-up picture of the electronics. The neck dimensions, scale, nut width and string spacing were made to the customer's requirements. The pickups were Bill Lawrence, (www.billlawrence.com), humbuckers, wired by Bill to the lower inductance values that would give us the warmer tones needed for playing jazz. The Graph Tech "Ghost", (www.graphtech.com), piezo saddles and pre-amp supplied the acoustic tones that could be mixed in as needed with the magnetic pickups to get the sounds the customer was looking for. After the cutting, gluing, routing and sanding, the whole guitar was finished with varnish that was wiped on, leveled and buffed out to a medium gloss, then waxed. Rick Hearne wanted some pictures for his web site, so the guitar was put into its custom made Calton case and brought back to the lumber yard where his son Brian could take some pictures. He even took one of me playing the guitar one last time before sending it off.

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