Well, the TL-1HA kit arrived on Thursday. I have band rehearsal on Thursday nights so I didn't even get to open it until last night, and the realisation hits home that I've never ever done anything remotely like building a guitar before!

I decided to start with something "simple" - doing a tele build - in order to learn the ropes and discover if I actually can put together a decent playing, decent sounding, nice looking guitar. The idea was that this is the test run, and then I can move on to the "real project" of a PRS-inspired build next. Well that was the plan, but here on Saturday morning I find myself both really committed to making a work of art out of this first build, and entirely overwhelmed by the electrics side of building the guitar (I think seeing a couple of capacitors in a little plastic pocket made me realise that this really is *building* a guitar, not just assembling one!).

I've grabbed a couple of different kits of dingotone, so I'm going for a sunburst finish, and a few little shaping ideas to make it look like mine rather than a standard tele.

Time to put together a plan, then do a dry build and make sure all the bits and pieces are here and fit together.