My semi-hollow is the best high gain metal guitar i own. It has an evil sounding low mid voice that none of the rest have. Its a Grote 335 copy that i upgraded with all quality parts.

​@@jeremiahfiek5495That's grandpa's guitars. 😉

@@AWMJoeyjoejoe grandpa was a closet death metal head. Dont let the trousers fool you. Lol

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I'll have to take glue spread videos for you when I'll start building your guitar then 😁👌

@@Kiiras feel free to make a video of the whole build, you can even show my mediocre photoshop montages. But yes, glue spreading videos would be a treat I can be happy with!

I ship worldwide, no problems there 😅👌

kiirasinstruments.com 😁👌

Bass for sure at some point. I have an idea about which one, but can't make promises yet.

Hey! Quite backlogged at the moment. I have 40 guitars in my production queue, but I'm questimating that I can finish 3-4 guitars per month now that I have found a capable apprentice to help me out in the workshop. So about a year's wait, give or take.

The Old Man works in mysterious ways 🙏

Similar model, but different. The Arrow 2 is asymmetric model, the Valkyrie is symmetrical.

That's a standard 0° / 30° angled file, most luthier's shops sell them, like Guitars & Woods in Europe and StewMac in US.

@@Kiiras Ok! Thank you!

En tee itse. Nää on jenkeistä, Bedlam Creations.

Hey! My online calculator / order form is in EUR. Read the the info page as well for information on shipping from Finland (EU) to US.

Hey! I'm Finnish (and my workshop is in Finland), hence the "finnish" jokes 😁 Yes, I can ship to Canada. I have some information on the pricing for overseas shipping on my website (at the bottom of the page): kiirasinstruments.com/online-order-form-information-help/ You can use the online order form on my website to check the price for a guitar with your preferred specs. If there's anything you don't find there / need any additional info, just drop me an email and I'll reply ASAP.

Nawww, kiitos 😍

The sidedots are Luminlay (= glow in dark & UV). At one point I was thinking to start doing blind fret slot and spherical fret ends, but decided against them on two major points: 1) Around half of my guitars stay in Finland. The winter is brutal here, and the fretboard shrinks during the dry winter air on every new guitar here causing fret sprout, more on cheap guitars, less on more expensive / well made guitars. So the spherical fret ends would be meaningless after the guitar's first year as they needed to be re-dressed, and the sphericalness shape would be lost. 2) Cost. I guestimated that both blind fret ends and the spherical fret ends would take somewhere between 5-7 hours of extra work on them (just a bound fretboard is easily 1.5hrs of extra work on fret install alone!), meaning easily 300-500€ extra cost on the guitar for, what feels to me like, a minor cosmetic upgrade. Yes, I've played a 5000€ Ruokangas guitar (10 years ago, would be closer to 7000€ nowadays) which had both of these features, and it didn't *feel* any different to play. Looked very nice, but no change in feel. I prefer to keep my guitars more on the affordable side (1695€ gets you a bolt-on playable guitar with basically all basic specs as Eric's guitar), the high-end would also clash with the more rustic style of finish I actually prefer and which keeps the relative price lower. #walloftext #doigivetoocomprehensivereplies #surelynot #hashtagsfromhell 😁

@@Kiiras fair enough the build quality looks top notch

Sure, why not? Fill the gaps, keeps the truss rod from rattling / vibrating about, and keeps it in place so it won't come out when at zero position.

@@Kiiras thx for the answer. I've only heard to avoid glue at all cost on the trussrod, thus my surprise. Indeed, isn't that glue avoiding the truss action , by blocking it somehow?

Nope, doesn't affect it all. All the moving parts on the truss rod are proctected by the black plastic film around it, so the glue doesn't really get into direct contact with anything mechanical. Glue might have been an issue with the old-timey one-way truss rods, but for the ca. 200 guitars (kiirasinstruments.com/EVR-GTR) I've built this way, I've never had a problem with it.

@@Kiiras awesome feedback, thanks a lot! And beautiful realization here, to say the least!!!