The following is a description of the guitar and some pictures of the work in progress. The guitar has the following features: The guitar has a Stratocaster-style body made of solid alder with a natural high-gloss finish. The pickguard is simulated black anodized aluminum The guitar has a hand-crafted maple neck with a rosewood fretboard. The maple has moderate flame figure, and a vintage V rear profile, and mother-of-pearl 7mm position marker dots The guitar is equipped with two Fender Noiseless Pickups in the neck and middle position, plus a Seymour Duncan Custom model TB-5 (Trembucker version) humbucking pickup in the bridge position. The guitar has a miniswitch to enable Ken to switch the Humbucker to single-coil operation for the more glassy "Strat" sound. The tremolo bridge, tuners, and other hardware are chrome finish The neck attachment screws and pickguard screws are stainless steel for long rust-free life The first five pictures show the body under construction--Cutting the body to shape, after sanding, the routing of the pickup cavities, then hanging up ready for finishing, and after several coats of lacquer have been applied: These next two pictures show the neck during the finishing process--first the front, with another neck we were building at the same time, and then from the back, showing the nice flame figure in the maple: These pictures show what the guitar looked like the first time it was assembled to check the fit of the parts -- but the parts are only fitted together, but not bolted together. At this point the body had about a dozen coats of gloss lacquer on it, and was ready for final wet-sanding and polishing. The neck was completed, except for the addition of the custom-designed headstock logo, tuners, and string trees.