Alan's Custom Orion Guitar

[mica]

Here's a few of the pictures I collected of your guitar earlier in its construction:

 The Bird's-eye figure will look much better once your guitar is in finish. The Maples tend to "blah-out" with the sanding.  

 

[mica]

I keep seeing your guitar only after it's been prepped for the next coat of spray:

That Purpleheart accent laminate is not electric looking in person, this is bluer than the real life look.  
 
I've seen it wet, but couldn't get in at an angle to photograph. There's even a nice gentle quilty pattern behind the bird's-eyes that you'll be able to fully appreciate in person.

[mica]

As you know, your guitar is done:

 This picture is much more yellow looking than it is in real life.   This one is closer to what you'll see when you receive your guitar:

  There's lots of great detail in the figure of the wood, different sized eyes and a really pretty quilty pattern all over. Hope you like it!

[5stringho]

Now THAT'S what I call an early Christmas present, Alan! Love the Bird's eye. I almost did that on mine, and your's looks GREAT. Everybody does quilt, which is definately cool, but I've always loved the Birds!
Know she'll sound as good as she looks. Enjoy her, and play her for years! It's something to be proud of!
 
Best of luck, Mike, Tho

[adriaan]

Very nice.

[David Houck]

Really nice top!!

[the_8_string_king]

Congrats on the gorgeous Orion!  I love the old school body shape... should be pretty easy to play with the relatively short scale length of a guitar!
 
And again... NICE Birdeye!!!

[alansorion]

Thanks for your posting! I got the Orion last night and was up until three checking her out! She's a pretty as the pictures portray her to be but as with some beauties, she looks much better in person. There is nothing like having a one of kind work of art and this is certainly one. Happy holiday all.

[artswork99]

Alan,
Enjoy that beauty.  Play it healthy!  
Art

[hydrargyrum]

Hey Alan,
 
That's one beautiful guitar.  In the unlikely event you should ever decide you want a bit of a change, you can swap the orion electronics for a volume, pan, filter, qswitch set up without any need to drill holes, etc.  The person who owned my Orion baritone did it during the interim in which I sold it to him (before he sold it back to me).  It was like a whole new guitar (but it sounded great both ways).  Enjoy in good health.

[David Houck]

Congrats Alan!!

[flaxattack]

when you think about it
the file size for photos is so small and they look so good
when you got it in your hands
the usual first comment is
damn it looks better in person
play it in good health alan

[the_8_string_king]

It looks like it already has the volume/blend/filter/Q setup...

[hydrargyrum]

Well, I could be wrong, but standard Orion electronics are volume, bass, treble, toggle switch.   I don't see anything in this thread that suggests this guitar has otherwise.

[the_8_string_king]

Hmm.  My bad.  I know that standard Orion/Epic electronics are volume, bass, treble, and blend... on a BASS... so I assumed a guitar wouldn't have the/a lesser package of a toggle switch instead of a pan.  But if you say it's so, I accept your word, and acknowledge my error!
 
In any case... it's a great looking guitar!