Wokka's Ash Tele with Baritone neck

So this build came from nowhere. Ads kindly gave me the tele ash body was a very early beta test from DB testing DT Karijini red. I visited DB's man cave Friday with a maple neck blank planning for DB to help me start a scratch baritone neck. Then DB tells me he won't have time to build a body for the baritone neck he had 95% completed. So I ended up leaving with neck blank untouched and an almost complete baritone neck ! Thanks very much DB !
I've since put side dot markers on the neck and had to cut the neck pocket on the body to suit the curved neck heel. I touched up the sanded area with DT Mark II Uluru red.
The body got a coat Friday night with Uluru red and planning another coat later today it should get some more depth in the colour. It has got a bit darker last 1.5 days curing.
Here's a mock build with spare parts I had. I will be upgrading the bridge, tuners, pups and electrics. I will have to hunt down a 4+2 tuner set, the mock build is using 3+3 tuners

so the neck is a 3 piece laminate, tazzy blackwood on the outside and a nice thick maple skunk stripe. Can't remember what the fingerboard is but it's got some sweet grain. It's also got a cool DB truss rod cover looks so cool, it just pops off with a fingernail underneath.
Note on the neck plate I manage to get the Freo Dockers flag in the reflection ! haha

Looks real good Wok love the bottle caps bin, bet it gets emptied alot :cool:

cheers Tony, that bottle cap icecream container is empty, all the bottle caps are on the new outdoor bar, I'm about 80% there covering the top. Cheating a bit and putting some beer coasters on the top.
This is what I've been working on about last 5 weekends so haven't had time for much axe work lately

Geez Wok that looking impressive, i could of send my bottle caps over and it would have been done with spares left over :D

The finger board is Quilted NSW Blackbutt.
Very tasty, super rare............

There's a lady in our race series who is involved in beer caps for wheelchairs.

The steel is recyclable of course so basically once a certain weight is reached a disadvantaged kid in need gets a free chair, I think the weight is something like the average weight of a 10 yr old.

Prior to offering assistance I confirmed with her that it was fair dinkum and again this year that it is still going, my mates and I have been putting in the hard yards to make sure there is a decent contribution each race day. ( probably at least 25Kg so far :D )

Lovely looking guitar BTW, well done Wok & DB

Wow.. that's really nice, a little unusual looking, which is good.. Nice work Wokka and DB too!!

With all those bottle caps Wokka....I can see you've been busy:rolleyes:

Gee that looks nice WARREN. It couldn't be in better hands mate, can't wait to see this build progress.

ROB!

Wowsers Wokks! That is a sweet looking axe bro! Outstanding looking bar too.. You're giving me ideas for a tonne of bricks that need a new home in my own backyard. Mate I can't wait to hear that axe.. I bet she sounds as good as she looks!

Wow - looks great!

thanks for all the nice comments all. I hope to get second coat of uluru on the body today so I'll post some pics next day or so.

I've also got to clean up the side dot markers on the neck and put a bit of DT clear over that edge. Rest of the neck already has been cleared with nitro

Yowsers Wokks, as I said on FB this one is looking amazing. I thought the body looked good, but add DB neck and you've struck gold. Interested to see how the 2nd coat affects the current colour.

cheers,
Gav.

Awesome Woks (the guitar and the new 4D Bar). Looks like you've got about one square metre of beer bottle tops to drink through to finish the bar top!

not sure what i like more, the baritone tele or the bar - both are sensational

cheers fellas, the bar project has been a good change from axes for about 5 weeks. My 4D buddy Wayne aka Popeye has helped with some of it, no way I can render that smoothly haha
Should get a 2nd coat uluru red on later. It is already looking a bit darker after the one coat after 3 days curing now.
@ Ponch I now have the bar covered with coasters and bottle caps, I cheated and bought 800 home brew gold caps but have some more collections off mates for beer caps with logos so will mix them all in

Sounds like you need to call an extraordinary general meeting in the Naughty Warehouse and dish out some punishment so that all of us inmates can help you with consuming enough amber liquid to produce more bottle tops to finish this altar to the beer gods.

We'll have to send over a batch of XXXX caps, that should set it off noice!!!