A very fine day to all you luthiers and enthusiasts of this awesome platform!
As a total newcomer to guitar building I've already learned quite a lot just reading your posts and browsing through your pics (which, frankly, can also be a bit intimidating form time to time! ) -- so thanks for that at this point!
Anyhow, as you might have guessed from the title I'm planing to build my very first electric guitar and I thought, well, why not designing it myself too! After heaving read and watched my way through almost all I could find on guitar building (online as well as offline) and since I have neither ever designed nor built a guitar I thought about keeping it as simple as possible. Roughly, thus, I had the following in mind:
headless (bridge and locking nut from technology for musicians)
25" scale length
bolt on neck
glued-on fingerboard (22 frets)
depending on the outcome of this probably only 1 pickup
Now I've begun to draw a 1to1 design which I attached below (scaled down to a reasonable size I think). I was thinking about making the truss rod access (not marked in the drawing yet) at the "peghead"-end of the neck. However, this is one of the points I'm least sure about at this stage. I mean, how to let the neck end in general and how to position the truss rod... Any suggestions? Another thing I'm a little confused about are the dimensions of the neck. As far as I could find out, the standard thickness at the body-neck transition is roughly 1", right? But what about the rest of the neck until the nut - is there some value I can orient myself by?
It would be great If someone could give me some advice here! Also, what do you think about the design in general? (are the proportions ok, etc?)
Of course, the drawing is not fully worked out yet, after all there are still some things undecided. But I think it shows my basic idea of the guitar.
cheers,
Lukas