Here are some pics of a short scale guitar I am building. It's made from one piece of soft maple (except the fretboard). 24" scale, with a flat, wide neck - 2" at the nut. I wanted to try a few different things, so figured I'd build them all into one guitar.
It will end up being dyed red, with a black pickguard. It is a little bit of a homage to Brian May's Red Special. I am calling it "Special Red". Soon I will be building a 28" bass. but that is a topic for another thread...
Fresh off the CNC. The drop on the headstock is more than needed, and the horns are too... horney. I am pretty sure frets past the 12th are just for show, but I suppose access to them shouldn't be painful. I ended up cutting them back later on.
Mock up with a temporary pick guard I made from teak. I may reposition the knobs. There is a switch under there, but I am probably going to rewire just as two volume knobs - one for each pickup.
Rosewood fretboard with maple inlays.
After carving the neck some, and sanding the fretboard. I don't have a bit small enough to cut fret slots, so I used a v-bit to start the slots, to be finished by hand later. You can see the cut back horns here.
Frets! I filled the fret slots in with gel superglue the pressed the stainless steel frets in. They still need to be leveled and dressed.
That's all for now.
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