Thorn #049
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This guitar was custom built for me by Ron Thorn.  The neat thing about getting a custom built guitar is the ability to spec the guitar to your taste and being able to pick out the wood used in the guitar.  I love the Brazilian rosewood neck on this guitar.  There is no drag from the back of the neck that you usually experience from finished mahogany necks.  The MIDI system is really fun to play around with too.  Between this guitar and my PRS CU24, I feel like I am a blessed and fortunate guitarist.

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Specs:

Top - 5A Quilt Maple
Body Back - Honduran Mahogany
Neck - Brazilian Rosewood
Fingerboard - Brazilian Rosewood  / 10-14" Compound Radius / 25" Scale / 22 Fret
Nut - Tusq ~ 1-11/16" wide
Fretwire - 6105
Neck Carve - PRS Wide/Thin equiv.
Matching Inlaid Truss Rod Cover
Bridge -  One-piece Tremolo
Gold Hardware
Tuners - Sperzel Locking w/ Pearl Buttons
Dunlop Straploks
Fingerboard Inlays - Firesuns Pearl + Paua
Purfling - Paua Body Top & Sides / Fingerboard / Headstock
Inlaid Logo - Paua / Pearl
Side Dots - Mother of Pearl
   Neck Pickup - Rio Grande Texas
   Middle Pickup - Rio Grande Halfbreed
   Bridge Pickup - Rio Grande BBQ
GraphTech Ghost Piezo System
Controls - Vol. x 1, Tone x 1, Piezo Volume
5-way Blade/Super Switch ~ Custom wiring
   Top Stain -  Ocean Blue
   Body Back - Natural w/ dark grain filler

(Click on a thumbnail below to see the full size picture)

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5A Quilt Top		 049-04.jpg (165705 bytes)
Gluing Body Together		 049-05.jpg (136859 bytes)
Glued Up Top		 049-06.jpg (135567 bytes)
Glued Up Body Edge View
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Tummy Cut Routing on Back		 049-08.jpg (146777 bytes)
Hand Cavity on Back		 049-12.jpg (213164 bytes)
Completed Back Cavities		 049-09.jpg (176309 bytes)
Top Carve Being Milled
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Routing Pickup Cavities		 049-11.jpg (287939 bytes)
Top After Rough Sanding		 049-13.jpg (108048 bytes)
Top Ready for Staining		 0406Necks1.jpg (197813 bytes)
Thorn Necks with #049
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Inlay Work On Neck		 049-15.jpg (138531 bytes)
Stained with Sealer		 049-16.jpg (220941 bytes)
Finish in Sunlight		 049-17.jpg (190834 bytes)
Finish - Inside Lighting
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Finish in Sunlight		 049-19.jpg (168617 bytes)
Inside Under Skylight		 049-20.jpg (86221 bytes)
Edge View		 049-21.jpg (85570 bytes)
Finished Back
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Mockup of PU Layout		 049-26.jpg (105157 bytes)
Dane from Thorn Forum
"modeling" my guitar		 049-25.jpg (100359 bytes)
Complete except MIDI
wiring and cavity covers
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She's Finished !		 049-28.jpg (164732 bytes) mickandfrank.jpg (40954 bytes)
Frank & Mick Jammin'