This was the wood you selected for the top of your Further guitar:

  With the template for size reference:

  And a closeup of the figure:

  I understand from Bob that the body should be assembled next week.

I also saw the neck in progress this afternoon. There's still a lot of work to go, but it should be ready when the body is completed.
 

Wow, that's some beautiful maple. Even rough sawn the figure jumps out.
 
Graeme

After it's sanded, the Maple looses some of it's oomph, but here is the stack getting ready for body assembly:

The three dimensional grain will pop out again once the finish hits it.

The body is well under way:

 

  The fingerboard is on the neck and the peghead is rough shaped now too:

Ok, I'll add the lightning bolt on the front of the peg head.  I'll think about your comments on the neck inlay.  When do you need a final decision on that inlay?

Mica, I think I'm ok with abalone inlay.  I assume it will look like the Dire Wolf in the archive.  Now don't laugh, but can my name be in gold in the mother of pearl inlay?  This way it will match the hardware.

Yes, the Dire Wolf in the Custom Archive has a mix of abalone ovals with mother of pearl for the nameplate.  
 
For the nameplate, the black will match the fingerboard. To inlay gold will be pretty elaborate (read: expensive). When James gets back next week, I can ask him about the technical difficulties to accomplish this. I'll let you know.

I started a new thread for the fingerboard inlays so they won't get overlooked with the peghead inlay.  
 
I've got it on my schedule for Wednesday to redraw the lightning bolt with the proper proportions for the guitar Crown peghead. Check here in then for a preview.

Here's the bolt mock up I finished up yesterday:

 
This is obviously on a different Further's peghead. Scaling it down from the 5-string Crown bass peghead turned out great. There are three pieces of mother of pearl in this inlay.

Good. I like it. It dosen't overpower the logo and it fits nicely between the strings.  Excellent work.

Glad you like it. This design looks especially good on the Ebony front veneer.

Mica, lets go with your recommended Sperzel tuners in gold.  Give me an update when you can.  Any new pics?

I wrote to Mike about this when it happened, and now for the Club update. When carving the neck last month, a big, ugly snot showed up near the 12th fret. This was not something that we could tolerate:

 So we had to chop off the body and get a new neck constructed:

 

   The new neck is ready for veneers and its fingerboard next week, and should get back in carving the first week of June. It's got even heavier figuring than the first one.   Back on track now!

Ok, are we all set with the rest of the specifications, regarding inlay, peg head etc?