I was tossing up between a large 70's style headstock or just a plain telecaster style. Unfortunately there wasn't quite enough wood on the headstock blank for the 70's style so i tried to make a kind of in-between 70's and modern style strat headstock. Worst case scenario if i don't like it a standard tele can still be cut from whats left on there.



Decided to use washers instead of a neck plate. Also installed some string through ferrules. I didn't do that great of a job on those. The body was too large for the pillar drill i have access to so i had to use a drill guide which wasn't that good.



Checking out the grain with a wipe of Shellite



Headstock done


Filling the factory holes as i've ordered some Klusons.




I wanted a vintage tint on the neck. Some yellow stain sorted that out.


First clear coat session. All 2k for this build.


The neck actually has a little bit of figuring.


Some clear to lock down the body.



Note large foam pad underneath as i didn't 100% trust my new guitar painting stand