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
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
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
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
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
Hey, if the minister for home affairs is on board, thumbs up, seal of approval, better start ordering for the next project.....
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# 2 - EX-1 https://goo.gl/KSY9W9
# 3 - Non PBG Tele https://goo.gl/W14G5g
# 4 - Non PBG J Bass https://goo.gl/FbBaFy
# 5 - TL-1AR GOTM Aug 2017 https://goo.gl/sUh14s
# 6 - MMB-4 Runner-up GOTM Oct 2018https://goo.gl/gvrPkp
# 7 - ES-1 Runner-up GOTM Aug 2018https://goo.gl/T9BEY8
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
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
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
FrankenLab
Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
Shouldn't a "blank body" be called "a slab of timber"?
Col.
I admit that I am an agent of Satan, however, my duties are largely ceremonial.
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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.