Thanks Bakerdozen, the P90 is looking great on your build BTW, the whole guitar came out really nicely, inspiring stuff!
Finish wise I'm thinking ebony Timbermate and angelus blue leather dye like Christodav had. I only just realised he didn't finish it in tru oil but gluboost(?) which I need to read up about. I was hoping to do the tru oil method to avoid spraying & what seems like an easier finishing method. But if using truoil adds yellow, not sure what that blue will end up as... I might do a test with it and see how it comes out.
I'm in Brisbane, still hitting up friends and work colleagues to see who had a router. Worst case, I'll just drill with a forstner bit, and sandpaper from there. I don't mind doing heaps of sanding, I'm enjoying the build heaps.
Over the weekend and yesterday(show day holiday in Brisbane), I got stuck in to cutting the headstock, and a bit of pickguard reshaping to accommodate the bigger bridge plate. Went through a couple of coping saw blades, I think they melted. The blades seemed to get super hot. I was happy to get a reasonable looking headstock shape & taking it super slow on the pickguard, it came out OK too.
I had a 1991 tele neck pickup left over when I had a push pull split humbucker put into my tele years ago, so I thought I'd use that. Seems the pickguards pickup hole and screw holes were about 2mm too short for this pickup, so I lightly sanded till they fitted OK.
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