Shaped and sanded to 120 grit. The bulk of it was done on a scroll saw. The Basswood is nice and soft, so that tiny little blade went through it like butter. To make sure my curves were nice and clean, I dusted off my hole saws and whipped up a handful of sanding drums by bolting together some circles cut out of MDF and gluing sandpaper to the outside.
Next step is to throw some Zinssers on it, let the end grain swell up and then sand it back again, then recoat and sand back to a nice high grit. Hoping the 37 degree weather in Canberra does me more favours than harm. Paint is drying between brush strokes.
I've also resprayed the chrome hardware with the same Duplicolor Metalcast "candy" coat I used on my strat build as a smoky burst. It's given it all a nice gunmetal grey sheen. While the Zinssers dries, I'll be wiring up the pots on a bit of cardboard. I've also just discovered that ordering with no pickups also means no pickup rings, so I've jumped on eBay to get a set express posted. My worst case is screwing them straight into the timber with an appropriate spacer, but let's hope it doesn't come to that.
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