Start it off with my guitar (how else?)

Neal Moser, of Neal Moser Guitars hand built my Basilisk guitar in 2009.  This guitar was a design I made, originally in my 3rd painting in my heavy metal series. I built an original prototype with Kevin Riley, using a pre-made neck-thru body blank (I'm no luthier, but cutting and shaping the body was fun). I switched the design around in the painting and that was the basis of the stencil I sent Neal.  He built it with the expertise that only a 40-year veteran luthier can do.  Plays like a dream.  Can't wait for my 7-string version...
(Did I mention you can order a custom built Basilisk from Neal Moser Guitars? Contact Neal on his site for details.)

The painting from which it came...

and my original version, a bit different and less slick...