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Thanks for the response, I'm aware that he grain is great and I don't care about weight of the guitar as it is basically a concept at this point. I think that the wood is fully seasoned... or at least dried. All I know is that we pulled them from an old barn that a family friend had to tear down and said that we could have what we wanted from it. We took like all the wood from there. The actual body was going to be somewhat of a mix of a Gibson with the flat side walls and the basic shape of the strat. I never planned on having a whammy bar and make just a straight guitar. The point of the on board amp was for practiceing without having to set up a rig. Although I'm sure plugins exist for this point.

For my 16th birthday, my dad bought me a Squire strat bullet and from that point on I've always wanted to build a guitar. Quite recently, we got an abundance of wood and we think we have 6 planks of white ash (+12 ft). The idea is to buy the same neck and hardware from the strat and make a body out of the white ash. Is white ash suitable for the body? Or would it be better to get hot pickups for it? The Squire: https://shop.fender.com/en/intl/squier-electric-guitars/stratocaster/bullet-strat-with-tremolo/0310001532.html BONUS: Since I can't get a portable amp and not many laptops can handle Guitar Rig without latency, another idea is to have a switch between the final stage of guitar tone editing and the 1/4" jack, place a switch to lead to an small amplifying circuit outputting to an onboard speaker. Maybe even more 1/4" jacks for use with effects. Will the guitar's resonance be to great and ruin it or could this actually work? I'd post the related pictures and diagrams I had but they are not on me at this time. Thanks for any help and feedback!