Migstopheles wrote:You're having an 8-string built?! Tell me more 
gladly!

A German luthier called Siggi Braun is building it for me, I spoke to a few people and although he wasn't the cheapest we got on well when talking on the phone and he seemed to have similar ideas as me, so.
-Swamp Ash body, slightly darkened, high gloss (shape similar to this

but I changed it a bit, made it "sharper" looking and made the bottom cutout deeper and obviously will be natural wood, not blue.
-5 piece Wild Maple bolt-on neck with rosewood strips (for strength): 28" 5/8 scale, 20mm thickness at 1st fret, 21mm at 12th; 55mm nut
-Ebony fretboard, no fret markers but a bar on the 24th fret with my name (73.5mm spacing i.e. 10.5mm per string)
-24 jumbo stainless steel frets
-Custom made bridge with piezo system by
http://www.ets-hardware.com/ -Custom made, direct mount pickups by Harry Haeussel
http://www.haeussel.com/ neck and bridge, coil tapping possible (he makes really awesome stuff, he made the first 8 string pups for blackmachine too)
-Headstock with matching swamp ash top and my signature one it. sperzel locking tuners
-Just a volume nob (push-pull for coil tap), no tone, and a pickup selector, piezo volume nob.
-security locks for the strap and all that jazz
-Siggi Brain also does an amazing bolt on system for the necks

so you get amazing access to the top frets, with all the benefits of a bolt-on (no discussion there, for a heavy, ultra low tuned guitar, bolt-on is a must)
can't fucking wait, should be here in the next 2 weeks. I will post a gratuitous amount of pics when it gets here
