So the body turned out fine.
Here's a picture of the back, it's just straight Blonde shellac....you can also partially see to the right of the body the neck, now with it's frets removed, and it's fingerboard dyed Black with Indian Ink.
Here is a mock up of the guitar as it stand now.
As you can see I had plugged the bridge post holes with some 2mm wood veneer and some wood filler to level it out, as this build was having a floating bridge.
The pickup's are kit supplied ones from my ES-1 build, they aren't the ones going to be fitted to this [Kinman humbuckers in Gold], it's just to see the overall look so far..... I think I'll change the colour of the pickup rings to either Black or Gold.
I bought the Gold finger tailpiece after finding the other Gold replacement one I bought not really to my liking [same as one that comes with ES-3 kit, but in Gold]
All was looking good with this build [apart from me taking so long with it] that was until the headstock binding router mess up.
Here's what it looks like ATM, I'm hoping it can be salvaged and made to look decent.
Going to try removing the current wod filler and placing stripes of 2mm wood veneer in it's place.....stuff happens.
If it doesn't turn out this build might as well be scrapped, and another of the same kit order to start over again....no point putting a lot of expensive replacement hardware on it.
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