when i quoted a price for a finished product they went" uuuuhhh,,, no thats cool"
but it got me thinking.
if i was to build a neck thru, what wood would i use?
what style?
what shape?
what appointments would i make to it?
i think i figured something out tho.
i started most of this before the great flooding of feburary.
but anywho.
this is a life sized template that i won't actually use like a normal template but rather like a scale modle to base and measure off of.
im not sure if you can tell from the template but the neck is modled after a tele, the headstock is a design that i used on my first full custom build, and the body is a combo of about 3 bodies.
the most obviouse( i think) is the rickenbacker bass style,
next is the jag horn
and the one with the least amount of influence(but its there)
is a tele body.
the wood is pretty simple,
there is a fellow in town with a rickenbacker guitar, i have no idea what modle it is or how old it is.
but anyway its just a mohogany neck(center) and two ash wings, i thought about doing accent layers and stuff but i remembered that i hated accent layers and it just makes it look like nice plywood.
the fingerboard(not picured) is cocoabolo, a version of rosewood, its pretty cool looking stuff.
the big thing on this that im really proud of is the fact that its not going to have a pg, nor a control cavity, i basically routed/chizzled out the inside on the bottom wing so that way i can throw in the electronics like in an archtop,
my goal is to make it as CLEAN looking as possible.
here are the general specs.
25.5 scale
neck thru(DUH)
2 humbucks
1 vol, 1 tone, both push pull for the single coil sounds.
and a string thru tom with a 12 radiu for the neck
and a 3 way switch(but im not sure where to put it yet)
most of you can tell that thing is something that is rather un-apealing to me and most of you, but since it is uncomissioned im choosing most of these factors that way it will apeal to a larger audience, im rather excited about it since its my first solo neck thru build.
should be fun!
its also kinda cool cuz i don't have to rely on a center line, like at all, everything is set where it is and thats it.
im hoping to have it glued together by the end of the week and ready for shaping.
