Blank body

[Rockfactor]

Not sure if it's been suggested, but a neck with a paddle headstock and a blank body that's prerouted for electronics might be cool, just a rectangle shape or something. That way we could design and shape our own body shape.

Robbo

[wokkaboy]

Hey Robbo would be too many configurations of pup/control/switch cavities and you generally work that out once you know the body shape as to where they go. If you get hold of or make some templates get a router and have a crack at it yourself. I started learning scratch body builds with about $25 of pine glued together from the big green shed

[Rockfactor]

Yeah I have most of the gear I would need, just probably being a bit lazy.

Now I've put together a kit I will probably try a scratch built body and buy a neck.

After a few of those I'll have a crack at a neck.

It's quite addictive and therapeutic and the minister for war and finance is on board too

[wazkelly]

Hey, if the minister for home affairs is on board, thumbs up, seal of approval, better start ordering for the next project.....

[burngeorgesbush]

Wouldn't be popular enough I don't think to justify. Body blanks are easy enough to get and you could always see if Adam could throw together a package deal with everything else apart from the body

[FrankenWashie]

Yeah I have most of the gear I would need, just probably being a bit lazy.

Now I've put together a kit I will probably try a scratch built body and buy a neck.

After a few of those I'll have a crack at a neck.

It's quite addictive and therapeutic and the minister for war and finance is on board too

Building a neck is easy, building a neck well is the trick.

[wokkaboy]

haha that's it Franky, you need more specialised tools to build a neck for routing the truss rod channel, cutting frets, bending frets to the radius, radius block for fingerboard, and of course tools to cut and clean up the fret work. Brad point drills for dot markers. Add some experience or guidance to that. I'm lucky DB has helped me build about 4 scratch necks

[FrankenWashie]

haha that's it Franky, you need more specialised tools to build a neck for routing the truss rod channel, cutting frets, bending frets to the radius, radius block for fingerboard, and of course tools to cut and clean up the fret work. Brad point drills for dot markers. Add some experience or guidance to that. I'm lucky DB has helped me build about 4 scratch necks

Yeah some long handled nippers with good hardened jaws help. I did my first fretboard with a short handled set and by the time you do 24 frets and the 48 trimmed ends, the nippers are blunt and your hands are killing you.

[Rabbitz]

Shouldn't a "blank body" be called "a slab of timber"?

[Rick V]

It would be cool if they made semi blanks for different style bodies with the neck pocket done, controls, pickups done but then left a bunch of material after the inside horns were cut and through the rest of the body. So if it were a Strat style that you were looking to make then you could make it any way you wanted it to look like. Like turning it in to SG horns and the option to change the bottom in to a Gibson Firebird style or any other way you wanted it to be. Instead of being limited to cutting and shaping from a Strat blank. Long winded description here and I don't know if I am describing the idea well enough, so sorry lol.