After a day of not doing much except moping around hating coronavirus I got up this morning and decided to start on the neck.

Thicknessing down the fretboard



Truss rod channel setup and routing







Fret slotting. Noticed my kerfing saw is getting a bit blunt. It was only $8 or thereabouts and considering I made about 8 fretboards for the last build I guess it's not too bad. Time for a new one though.





And here we are after clean up.



Also having a think about recycling one of these pickguards. I'll probably nick the neck pickup out of the red pearloid for this one, considering just making a surround out of the pearloid. Alternately the white one would cut down OK, but I'd probably have to source a lipstick pickup rather than try and squeeze a strat style single coil in there. Anyway, will keep thinking about it. I still have a decent bit of aluminium I can use to make a completely custom one.