I have been lurking around here for a while, marveling at the REALLY cool stuff that many of you make.
Ever since I started playing 25 or so years ago, I have always daydreamed about building my own guitar. My first guitar is a Mexican Strat that I still have and love. I tend to prefer Les Pauls and still own three (71 Custom '54 Reissue, 83 Standard Tobacco, 96 DC AAA)
I have an uncle that lives in North Carolina that makes furniture and he has a warehouse of wood in storage. When I got married, he build my wife and I a pie cabinet out of Black Walnut. It's so beautiful, I asked him if he had any scrap lying around that he could send me that I could use to build a guitar body.
A few months later I got this in the mail...
Im terrified to mess up this blank! I guess I'm mostly terrified to mess up the neck joint as my plan is to bolt up a strat neck to it and I want it to be right. I dont really care what the shape is, just as long as the neck fits properly.
My goal is a carved, PRS style body with Humbucker, Single Single or Dual Humbucker.... not sure yet.
I do need advice as to how I should go about this as this is my very first attempt building a guitar and I REALLY dont want to mess up the work my uncle put into this!
Thank you!