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Gard · #1 10-05-2009, 10:16 AM

LG 3005
Buckeye Burl top
Swamp Ash body
Natural finish
Bartolini 3-band preamp
Bartolini/Roscoe pickups
Exhibition Cocobolo fingerboard
Graphite nut
Black hardware
Case

This is #2 with the new "dimpled" knob arrangement, it will actually probably be #1 to go out.

Body shaped, sealed; neck "hogged".

Front shot only:

Darkstrike · #2 10-05-2009, 10:36 AM

That top is just mind bending.....

TheShape101 · #3 10-05-2009, 11:01 AM

WOW

, Thats a great looking LG!!!

seafang · #4 10-05-2009, 12:12 PM

Looks very similar to 6109....same burl?

bobunit · #5 10-05-2009, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Gard

LG 3005
This is #2 with the new "dimpled" knob arrangement, it will actually probably be #1 to go out.

Would you please explain what the dimpled knob arrangement is? Thank you.

Bob

Gard · #6 10-05-2009, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by seafang

Looks very similar to 6109....same burl?

I can't be 1000% certain, but yes, I do believe it is indeed from the same billet of raw buckeye!

Gard · #7 10-05-2009, 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobunit

Would you please explain what the dimpled knob arrangement is? Thank you.

Bob

Mr. Unit -

Of course, I'll be happy to attempt an explanation.

OK, if you look CLOSELY at the area around the 4 holes that will eventually have the control pots/knobs located, you will notice that the top "dimples" around them, instead of the prior arrangement that was the same radius/contour of the rest of the top.

We would (and still do on many) "recess" the area BEHIND these holes before, so that the thickness of the top in that area would be correct for installing the pot. Now we are addressing the thickness issue from the front, and making a nice clean dimple in the top, similar to many other builders, such as Paul Reed Smith.

Once it's done, we believe this will give a very classy appearance to the top, and will also have all of the controls in the same plane geometrically.

Hope that helps!

bobunit · #8 10-12-2009, 11:42 AM

Thank you. So the dimples are similar to this Vadim?

CrashClint · #9 10-12-2009, 11:54 AM

Oh Gardfather, show us inside the clean control cavity compared to the previous routing.

CliffD · #10 11-01-2009, 02:23 PM

So does this new dimpled knob thing work as though the knobs are on a plane tangent to the plane of the body at the center of the four knobs? Meaning do the knobs kind of point down away from the bass? Or do they point straight away from the bass?

CrashClint · #11 11-01-2009, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by CliffD

So does this new dimpled knob thing work as though the knobs are on a plane tangent to the plane of the body at the center of the four knobs? Meaning do the knobs kind of point down away from the bass? Or do they point straight away from the bass?

Straight up with the curvature of the wood. Where you really notice it is when you look in the control cavity, no countersinking.