Dragon headstock

pickup rings
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The Dueling Dragons

Specs

Name: Dueling Dragons
Selling Price: NOT FOR SALE
Serial#: 0001
Birthdate: 7/25/2011
Style: Double-cutaway set neck
24 frets
25" scale
16" Radius fretboard
Tuners: 4/top 2/bottom Gold Gotoh's
Nut: Black Tusq Nut
Pickups: Gold PRS Dragon II Neck & Treble
Electronics: Vol, Tone & Original PRS 5-way selector dial
Bridge: Schroeder Custom Gold Stoptail
Body: African Mahogany/ Flamed Maple soundboard/ Gabon Ebony Top
Neck: Hard Maple - neck blank cut by Penta Guitarworks
Fretboard: Indian Rosewood/Gabon Ebony side strips - additional neck work and fretboard work done by Tony Bonaventura of Southern WoodWorks
Headstock: Flamed maple veneer edge & maple edge, 1/8" Gabon Ebony Inset
Pickup rings: Tamboti wood
Headstock Decal: Art: Virgil, made by Scary Creative
Gabon Cap & edge/: Tony Bonaventura
Burl dying: Jim Huston
Guru guidance: Rick Penta, Woodmeister and tool loaner/time giver: Tony Bonaventura 
Other elves: OLF users/luthiers.
Finishing: Moe Roberts of Moecolors
Design, building, inlay and everything else: Virgil Mandanici

Inlay Materials/Dragons:
Padauk
Leopardwood
Wengewood
Rosewood
Camatillo wood
Dyed Burl
Gold MOP
White MOP
Black MOP
Pink MOP
Green Abalone
Paua Abalone
Bubinga w/ Sapwood
Macassar Ebony w/ Sapwood
Kewazinga (bubinga)
Box Elder
Snakewood
Various dyed Burls
Prehistoric Shark's teeth
Our puppy's eye teeth(For the horns)
Prehistoric Sanshark teeth(for dragons claws)
Hawaiian Koa wood
Turquoise Recon Stone
Sterling Silver Tongue & whiskers (lower Dragon)
14k Gold tongue & whiskers (upper dragon)
Gold & Red Nail polish/epoxy & coffee can lid for eyes

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Dueling Dragons Right
Dueling Dragon body33

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Here are some photos from the year-long build:

 

 

 

Selecting the 5 to 22 million year old prehistoric shark's teeth:

 

 

The following photos were taken by Kent Ross Photography:

 

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