All of the body and neck (including fretboard) has been stained with a gunstock colour, while the guitar features hand-cut aluminium control plates and knobs throughout. Nearly all of the metal parts have been painted with a grey colour -- he wanted something close to the bluing process used on most guns; and this is what we ended up with after trying several colours. It's a grey primer with a hint of blue; and everything has been topped with a thick coat of polyurethane, so it should be pretty durable. All of the other metal parts have been polished to a near mirror shine. The stock plastic fretboard inlays have been replaced with nail heads. The customer wanted a headstock in the style of an antique key, which is shaped like a crown. All of the screws around the control plate area are large slotted screws.
If anyone if interested in knowing about the quality of the GFS kits -- the tuners and nut are complete shit, and some of the inlays were not directly in the center of the frets. I'm not sure about the pickups as we upgraded them. But for around $150, I suppose it's not bad. The tuners will soon be swapped out for higher-end tuners, and will be nickel this time as we think there is too much grey going on in the headstock area.
