JohnH's WL-1 (Slightly pre-emptive)

[Simon Barden]

Looks like a locking nut that comes with a floyd trem but no trem on the body?

Final modifications are as follows:

- No bevel on front of body
- No control cavity or tremolo route
- No holes drilled for volume or tone knobs
- Paddle headstock for six in line style, no tuner holes drilled

The locking nut may be an oversight, but otherwise it's a custom order just as JohnH wanted. You have to be very descriptive when doing custom orders and mention everything that needs changing: note the recent guitar hollow-body specified as for just a neck pickup, one volume and one tone control, but still came with the pickup selector switch hole drilled.

[JohnH]

Looks like a locking nut that comes with a floyd trem but no trem on the body?

Correct. Annoyingly, that one's on me - even after going through my list of customisations a couple of times before ordering, I still managed to forget to let Adam know I didn't need the locking nut. Rookie rookie

[JohnH]

Apart from that, and the fact the front has been bevelled slightly, it's all as I'd hoped/expected.

The front bevel was probably the only thing that was really worrying me while waiting for the kit to come, as I want to put a veneer on. There is a slight bevel, but it's very slight and I can plane it down. To be honest I was probably going to have to plane it at least a little anyway to stop the thickness of the veneer from adding too much bulk to the body (it should only add a few mm, but still...)

[neverwas]

Locking nut aside, am I misreading your description of a paddle headstock for 6 in line?
That's a 3 a side paddle. Interested to see what veneer you use on this.

Grant

[JohnH]

Locking nut aside, am I misreading your description of a paddle headstock for 6 in line?
That's a 3 a side paddle. Interested to see what veneer you use on this.

Grant

Yeah, they definitely buggered that up. It's not a huge drama though, so I figured it wasn't really worth mentioning. I suspect I'll end up ordering another neck, and using this one for another project so no real drama. At least I can start on the veneer, etc...

[JohnH]

The weather in Canberra is insane today, so as we couldn't go out or do anything I spent the day setting up my plane and joining this plane tree timber to make the veneer



If I had the cash I also would have gone to the BGS to make a router sled to shave 4 or 5 mm off the top of the body, but it will have to wait until next weekend...

[JohnH]

So far, so good...

[Sonic Mountain]

Ohh.. very nice...