Congratulations Paul, on the birth of your third Shamray Custom Shop instrument (serial number CS 0067)!
We will post pictures of it's construction-in-progress from time to time here in this thread.

For the curious, here are the specs on CS 0067:

Body wood , extra lightweight Russian alder

Body binding , single-layer white around the top

Colour of body: black opaque / nitro

Neck wood , maple figured AAA

Fretboard , rosewood (as dark as possible) - with white binding - 9,5 inch radius

Fret markers , MOP Leaf & Vine

Frets, Sintoms 6155

Side markers , black plastic dots

Nut, Delrin white

Logo ,front : Shamray spagetti logo.

Finish, clearcoat – high gloss – not tinted

Nut width 43 mm – at 13 th fret 52 mm – at 22th fret 55 mm

Thickness, at 1st fret 23 mm , at 13th fret 25 mm / the same as CS-0019, Soft V-shape back- profile , rounded shoulders , outer sides of headstock sanded/rolled off…

Machine heads…Sperzel open-back (chrome)

Stringtree , 1 Fender style, round chrome

Neck attachment , neckplate

Output jack , electro socket (chrome)

Strap buttons , Dunlop – chrome straplocks

Body shielding , 100 %

Pickguard , W-B-W.. custom shape

Pickups:

Middle - Stratocaster –flat pole pieces in closed white cover RW/RP (cover supplied by customer…)

Toggle switch….DiMarzio 5 pos / white tip

Potentiometer , volume DiMarzio 250K

Pull-pot , tone DiMarzio 250K (connects neck to output)

Tone capacitors, 1 ceramic

Strings , D’addario 0.10

Case , standrad molded flight case

String ferrules 6 ( string through body)

SPECIAL: Customer will supply set of engraved hardware: Bridge/chrome panel/knobs/ chrome cover for neck pickup

Hey guys.....no leather pickguard on this Tele.....
Leather is for shoes......not for guitars....
The work on cs oo67 will start September , I have high expectations for this one as my cs 0019 "Surfmaster" (also built by Maxim) is my # 1 guitar since I got it !!!!!!