A thinline tele kit I ordered from Pitbull had the binding lift off when I tried to stain it, and Adam was good enough to send me a replacement body which went on to win March GOTM... https://www.buildyourownguitar.com.a...t=11294&page=2
Anyway, I decided to write up what happened to the original body. Since I lost the binding, my thought was "what have I got to lose?" and routed a radius onto the body. It came out pretty good, so I kept going - sanded off the veneer, stained the body walnut, routed the neck pocket for a humbucker, made up a custom cavity plate, and stained an old neck I had lying around to match the walnut. Put a pair of Toneride AC2 Classics in it, running through 1 meg pots for a bright lead tone. Pretty happy with the results...
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