I am building this from scratch with quilted maple front and birds eye on the back, the neck is dark walnut, I will stain the front orange, with lepard wood trim, and homae mad tail piece

Cool. Can't wait to see more.

Wow, you've got skills;
Can't wait to see the "after" pics

stained it orange and routed my logo THE LETTER R in the body also used epoxy and sparkle mixed in the head and will put a plate over it with my initials out of aluminum
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a51/mvpgretsch/a4-1.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a51/mvpgretsch/a6-1.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a51/mvpgretsch/a5-1.jpg

finished this guitar and it cam out really nice, I changed things as I went along, The fretboard I used epoxy and white glitter as dot inlays, I made a crazy pick guard from aluminum to match the tailpiece and headstock logo, the accent pieces of lepard wood I put oil on it , the neck is glued on as well as 1 screw

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a51/mvpgretsch/a8.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a51/mvpgretsch/a9.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a51/mvpgretsch/a10.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a51/mvpgretsch/a12-1.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a51/mvpgretsch/a13.jpg

Wow!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idsWuoTCAno the guitar in action