OK Guys, lets start this thread again.
I spent the weekend drawing out full size plans and this cleared up most of my questions about 8 string guitars.
Now I have a tentative buyer for one of these guitars straight off the plan and I also want one for myself, so while I'm at it why not build three.
1:
Fattened RG shape, 2 piece QLD Maple body, 50mm thick in the centre. Simple body carve.
Rock Maple neck, 27" scale. Set neck.
NG Rosewood fret board, 24 super jumbo frets.
4 + 4 Tuners.
Hipshot fixed bridge.
Bridge pickup, either SD Blackout or a Rondo pickup, depending on the customer.
Single volume pot.
All black hardware.
2:
Same as guitar 1 except:
Mahogany neck
SD Blackout bridge pickup.
3:
Same as guitar 1 except:
1 piece NG Rosewood neck with Mahogany skunk stripe.
Undecided on hardware colour yet.
I picked up 3 mt's of QLD Maple during the week:
And the same quantity of NG Rosewood (It looks way lighter in the picture, it's got a more red tone):
I also got my template cut out of MDF:
I will be cutting up the Maple for the body blanks this weekend hopefully, damn I wish I had a jointer.
Any and all comments welcome about how I'm gonna screw this up please.