First, let's talk about the necks:
All rosewood, top adjust truss, Sperzel open back tuners (nickel), roller trees from the other guys, Earvana OEM nuts, 1 3/4" wide nut, 6105 frets, Paua front dots, 21 frets, the one for the strat body is a US3 and the one for the tele body is a US1, 54 contour, standard compound radius.
Next for the bodies.
Guitar body number 1 is a Rear Routed Hollow Strat made out of Black Limba (I sent Tommy a gigantic board last week) with a Walnut top. It is going to have Lipstick tube pickups, a standard strat bridge (well, the Wilkinson version anyway), Tele jack (going with the round electrosocket jack cup), rear routed. I'm going with the Guitar Fetish Abalone top knobs to kind of match the Paua dot inlays on the neck. I'm thinking about using Epoxy to attach Paua shell veneer to the Sperzel tuner buttons as well. I think that would be a nice touch.
Guitar body number 2 is a Rear Routed Tele made out of Black Limba with a flame walnut lamtop (I sent this wood as well, originally for the strat, but it was too thin), with 2 P90's, a Pigtail Intonated Aluminum Wrap Around Tailpiece with Pigtail Hardened steel studs, and typical tele style controls (again with the round electrosocket jack cup). I'm also going with the Guitar Fetish Abalone top knobs to kind of match the Paua dot inlays on the neck on this guitar as well.
I know guitar number 2 is a going to sound great, but I'm not sure on guitar number 1's pickups with that wood. What do you guys think? I'm trying out the Guitar Fetish GFS Pro-Tube Lipstick Tube calibrated pickups, so they should be a bit beefier than Dano pups.
I look forward to posting pics as I finish them and put them together.
The finish is going to be Sutherland Welles Polymerized Tung Oil (High Lustre). This is going to be at least for the Walnut tops, but if I have enough, I may do both bodies with this.
Missed you guys. I know it has been a long time since I posted. I've mostly taken a break from guitar playing over the past couple of years, went through a divorce, lots of job stress, etc. etc. Things are better now and I'm getting back into playing again and finally building a couple of dream guitars.
All rosewood, top adjust truss, Sperzel open back tuners (nickel), roller trees from the other guys, Earvana OEM nuts, 1 3/4" wide nut, 6105 frets, Paua front dots, 21 frets, the one for the strat body is a US3 and the one for the tele body is a US1, 54 contour, standard compound radius.
Next for the bodies.
Guitar body number 1 is a Rear Routed Hollow Strat made out of Black Limba (I sent Tommy a gigantic board last week) with a Walnut top. It is going to have Lipstick tube pickups, a standard strat bridge (well, the Wilkinson version anyway), Tele jack (going with the round electrosocket jack cup), rear routed. I'm going with the Guitar Fetish Abalone top knobs to kind of match the Paua dot inlays on the neck. I'm thinking about using Epoxy to attach Paua shell veneer to the Sperzel tuner buttons as well. I think that would be a nice touch.
Guitar body number 2 is a Rear Routed Tele made out of Black Limba with a flame walnut lamtop (I sent this wood as well, originally for the strat, but it was too thin), with 2 P90's, a Pigtail Intonated Aluminum Wrap Around Tailpiece with Pigtail Hardened steel studs, and typical tele style controls (again with the round electrosocket jack cup). I'm also going with the Guitar Fetish Abalone top knobs to kind of match the Paua dot inlays on the neck on this guitar as well.
I know guitar number 2 is a going to sound great, but I'm not sure on guitar number 1's pickups with that wood. What do you guys think? I'm trying out the Guitar Fetish GFS Pro-Tube Lipstick Tube calibrated pickups, so they should be a bit beefier than Dano pups.
I look forward to posting pics as I finish them and put them together.
The finish is going to be Sutherland Welles Polymerized Tung Oil (High Lustre). This is going to be at least for the Walnut tops, but if I have enough, I may do both bodies with this.
Missed you guys. I know it has been a long time since I posted. I've mostly taken a break from guitar playing over the past couple of years, went through a divorce, lots of job stress, etc. etc. Things are better now and I'm getting back into playing again and finally building a couple of dream guitars.
