just a couple more..hope this helps you Mike.

Thanks, that helps alot.

Question: Is that tortoise around the outer edge of the binding on the headstock, or is it just Rosewood. It's hard for me to tell. Please let me know.
Mucho Thanks,
Michael

It is tortoise. The headstock binding is half the thickness of the neck and body so you can't see it as well, and the variations of the tortoise colors don't highlight as much.

FWIW - since you are contemplating tortoise for your new custom, let me add - the pictures here make the tortois a shade or two more red than real life. In real life - the tortoise binding is very subtle, you almost don't notice it unless you call your attention to it. Understated elegance.

FWIW - I had another custom built with rosewood bindings on the body against a hog b/s side and cedar top...also rosewood in the rosette...I loved it, but after the build, I remembered thinking that tortoise would have REALLY been right...without being bling.

Great...now I've got it!
Ok...I am going to call Kevin at Hill Country Guitars first thing in the morning and see if he can add the tortoise binding (with that awesome thin white strip) to my D1 Mh (all hog) on the fretboard, and the headstock. I sure hope they can, and that they are not to deep into the build process to prevent that.

Couldn't you have bought your CJ a little sooner (LOL), and posted those terrific pictures so I could have figured this out much earlier! Ha....Mike

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Couldn't you have bought your CJ a little sooner (LOL), and posted those terrific pictures so I could have figured this out much earlier! Ha....Mike

If only I had known Mike

This one only arrived into the public market yesterday, before that, who knows. The shop said it was someone's custom that was not delivered. I dunno really - have not researched it. Somehow and fortunate for me - it ended up in Arizona.

Yours sounds like a dream - I can imagine your excitement,

i love the look of the peghead veneer. Outstanding wood beauty.

And the tortoise binding is what I have on my cedar/mahog SJ. I love that also, understated elegance. It randomly does it swirls... sort of reminds one of a beautiful personality.