first build - thinline Tele

[Old Tooth Hopkins]

I think you just gained a whole forum of new friends by indicating you can access a laser cutter!
It is a lovely looking kit, I quite like the Rosewood board, is the Maple a must have?

I teach at a school that has one. We all occasionally use it as means to “upskill” - and it’s not hard to get a piece of scrap plywood.

As to the maple, my other guitars are all rosewood, so I’m after something different. One of the forums dingobass indicates that we can use the staining coat on the fretboard just not the finishing coat, so aesthetically having a consistent color (acacia) with spray on sunburst would be nice.

[Brownsworthy]

I teach at a school that has one. We all occasionally use it as means to “upskill” - and it’s not hard to get a piece of scrap plywood.

Damn, I work with the education dept and neither of the 2 schools I work at have laser cutters. Lucky bugger!