So! Good news and bad news!
First, the good news...the kit already arrived! Way in advance of when I anticipated, which is great. Secondly, the wood is really gorgeous!
I was planning on matte white...or some sort of very, very dark charcoal grey or something like that, but I have to at least attempt to give this thing a natural finish. I think I will be sticking with my trademark black hardware where I can (I will attempt to fabricate a pick guard, get black tuners, swap knobs) The knob plate, bridge, and tailpiece are a maybe-down-the-road-swap type situation. Right now I will stick with the chrome. I think that will look good with the natural finish and black accessories anyways.
Then there's the bad news. Well....not bad news.
There's work to be done to get this thing playable. But that's what we are here for right!?! RIGHT!?!?
Something seriously funky (not the good kind) is going on with this neck pocket.
Pictured here, you see how high the heel sits above the pick guard. I mean..you can see quite a lot of neck under the fretboard, I don't know. That stuck out to me.
And...yeah
Then I threw a string on there just to see what was happening there (regular guitar strings are definitely not fitting on this 30" scale but you all probably knew that already and were just waiting for me to figure it out)
but the 6th string reached the tuner so I tensioned it up and raised and raised and raised the bridge to get it off the neck and....whoops!
That's not supposed to be like that!
So
I think the next move is to....deepen the neck pocket? Which is something, even after 9 other builds I have yet to do...so. Wish me luck? Give me some pointers? It's back to the research stage it seems.
All in good fun. I haven't given up on this just yet, there's still some fight left in me. I mean come on. It's night 1
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