Hmh. I had a hard time deciding whether I'll post this here or the guitar chat forum, since this is not yet actually a tutorial, but when I'll move along with the project this shall be a some kind of tutorial. So I'll place it here for now, feel free to move it if needed.
This is one odd kind of design I created on a boring lesson at school, and after a few minutes of planning I decided to actually build this. So here's the specs I have for now:
body shape: Ibanez JEM
body wood: mahogany with walnut top
neck wood: plain maple
neck join: bolt-on w/ AANJ
scale length: 25,5"
fretboard: dunno yet, ebony maybe or something more exotic
frets: 24 Jumbo
no body contours
black binding on body & fingerboard
flyod rose tremolo
hollowbody design
gold hardware
two humbucker pickups (don't know yet which ones though)
rear-routed controls and no pickguard
So it's really going to be a hollowbody, the trick being that the "F-hole" is the shape of JEM's monkey grip. And oh, before I boast with 'my new great design', please tell me whether some you guys have already done this, so I wont claim this as my own idea. Didn't find any similiar with a quick Google search, though.
I will post pics as I make progress, now the only thing I have is a few shots of my woods and the body blank planed with the JEM shape drawn. It still has the single-coil pickup cavity drawn, but I decided not to rout it and have it a H-H. I'll post them when I get them out of my camera
Comments and suggestions are more than welcome, actually I'm not yet sure if I'll go with the walnut top, perhaps some other dark, more figured wood for the looks. What do you think of Koa?
Cheers.