I've always wanted to own an X-style guitar as it exhales pure rock n' roll! Matthias Jabs, James Hetfield and Allen Collins are just few players to name who have played this kind of guitars. Usually factory made guitars are painted monochromatic or the available colour options are limited in Finland, not to mention the flame topped models are unavailable. So that's why I decided to build one flame top by myself. I wanted to use local woods mainly in this project as it's getting hopefully more popular in the future. So the body, the top and the neck are made of Finnish black alder, fretboard and the headstock veneer are made of ebony to achieve contrast between surfaces. The guitar has 24,75" scale, medium jumbo frets and Schaller hardware, the pickups are self wound.