all right so from ukraine a valiant smith now you guys might remember i demoed that valiant jupiter guitar and i loved that thing it was like a custom aged baritone jaguar thing i move my hands a lot when i talk and you can see that in the reflection of this guitar i'm sorry i just can't help it i loved that guitar man it was my top guitar of the year ended up selling it to chris robertson of blackstone cherry because i knew he would love it and he does he's already using it for shows which is sick that jupiter was their offset this is the smith which i guess is their take on the single cut the shape is interesting kind of reminds me of a michael kelly patriot oh this is one of the new cases too so it's got the logo imprinted over here it did get a little wrecked in shipping but that's what cases are for right i kind of love when companies do their own take on the bridge and tailpiece these saddles are made of bell bronze something that valiant does a bare knuckle of some kind of not sure which maybe a war pick burnt chrome pole pieces as well so you got like a little bit of color happening here like with the color of this guitar these things just stand out i'm not sure what the fingerboard is made out of it looks like rosewood but it doesn't feel like it the grain is too tight but these inlays are sick they're made of maple and this nut is crazy man it's got these circular bell bronze inserts it looks like somebody's handwritten the smith logo there flipped it over and okay what is happening here so i thought this is plastic it's not i think it's duralumin that's been painted black derlumen is like an aluminum alloy that they mostly use for aerospace applications but on the jupiter they used it everywhere it's on the bridge it was on the control plates it was unpainted and brushed on that one so it was very obvious and i think that's what they're using here they've just painted it that's cool too how they stamped the cereal into the control cavity cover pretty unique and then this body has an open pore thing going on i believe it's mahogany and then it's got this little belly cut here the neck joint is interesting too so they have rounded it but this looks more of like a bolt-on joint than a set neck joint interesting there must be two different types of woods this might be mahogany and this is maple yeah it's just really cool how the front is gloss and the entire back is satin and it's got um crap i forgot what these are called this is kind of a loot i don't know uh on gibson's it's called something special but i am completely blanking on that right now it's like a lot of wood dust but uh these are goto NUMBER_TOKEN locking tuners love me some goto this thing is so sick man yeah i thought this is plastic it's not i think this is all der alumin as are these i mean these have like the ebony and maple inlays but the actual enclosures i think are
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