My Kit arrived yesterday and is looking pretty good, semi hollow basswood tele body, maple neck & fingerboard. I decided to swap from the ATL-1SB as that wasn't due in for another couple of months, thanks to Ben and Adam for sorting this out for me.
I figure this will give me an opportunity to play around with a few changes as I ll be able to do a solid colour and don't have to worry about covering a nice grain. I also got a second neck so I can can have a go at a semi scratch build after this. I don't want to use the trem with this guitar and have bought a Wilkinson through body bridge and am looking at a pair of Irongear Platinum P90s to replace the HBs. Plan to do away with the scratch plate and have got a copper sheet to make pup rings and would like to make a matching control plate out of it too. Would there be any issues using copper for this?
Done a test build and everything seems to be there except the solder which isn't a problem. I want to use the maple fingerboard neck as the grain looks amazing, its a little too big at the moment but I understand that's a good thing!
1 Question I have first is, the P90s won't be in stock for a week or so and although I have the dimensions from the web site have decided to wait until I actually have them before I route out the cavities. Should I also wait to have these before I measure up and put the bridge in place or can I go ahead with this now?
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