Pyroiguana

*Drooool* Spalted wood gives me wonderful shivers of pleasure

Only way to tell if it's straight is ta measure it yourself, ya know. ; )

Yeah, I really like the colors you have. They work together really well. And the shapes great, i'm sure that if you just smooth out some of the curves on the shape it'd look perfect.

Going for a spaghetti sauce finish? It's turning out great! I loove the top's bass side.

Yeah... I don't know HOW that came to mind O_o

Yeah I guess I am trying to rush things. But when I get so close to finishing only to have to wait like a month for the last bit, it kinda irks me. But no matter! Luckily, I found a friend who'll drive me to a home depot today.

Hmm.. I got two questions. The two main things I need to do now are drilling a hole for the pickup to pickup wire (I just did the pickup to control cavity hole) and thinning down the headstock. To drill that wire hole, you would use a extremely long drill bit, right? But I'm home alone, and the nearest hardware store is quite a bit aways. So, is there any way I could possibly do this without using the long drill bit? And as for the headstock, I'm guessing the best way to do this is just with a belt sander? It only needs to be thinned by around 1/8th an inch.

That sort of finish, though beautiful, isn't really my kinda preference. It's too "artificial" if you know what I mean. I'm more a sucker for the woody hues, well, like the cocobolo's.

Wow... Thats pretty incredible. Way to steal my thunder (haha) I do like the finish too, i'll think about it. How long did all that inlaying take?

Older pic - Shows of the wood a little better ; ) Well, I got the parts , tuner holes are fixed and bridge is done. Now... the neck heel! Finally.

Here's the cavity cover & bridge holes. I need those parts! My parents are leaving off to switzerland for three weeks in a few days, so I'll have to go down to home depot or somethin tomorrow and pick em up (Im 14, btw. can't really drive myself down there : P) Then I can pretty much finish up the woodworking. And yes, I was planning on rounding it off. ; ) But I have to figure out the binding first. I'm still undecided about the binding & finish. I was thinking that I kinda liked the colors at the moment, the light cherry (I know it'll get darker) and the walnut look kinda nice together plain. Especially if I had the walnut binding. So maybe ill scrap the sunburst and just use a lighter finish. But if I do use the sunburst, I agree, the faux binding would work alot better and be easier but really the main point of the binding was just to spread the walnut around the body a little more.

Thanks alot, but the credit for the neck has to go to warmoth ; ) It was a paddle neck, I only cut out the headstock. Building a guitar is such a fun and rewarding experience, I have to do another one sometime. Next one I do, i'll try my hand with a neck (Maybe a neck-through?) And yes, as i said I know the heels quite unfinished at the moment : P I'll do that soon. Right now though I need to find the right size drill bits for the tuner holes & some screws for the bridge. (I did get the ferrule & bridge holes drilled, though) It kinda annoyed me that it didn't come with any... Oh, and for the body I know I want a sunburst but am still undecided on the colors. My dad suggested a chemical that ages cherry faster (therefore darkening it) that might be applied around the edges, I might try this out of a scrap peice to see how it turns out. If you have any suggestions for the color though, please give em!

Found it in my dads huge pile of wood out in a shed haha... He has some really interesting pieces in there. The walnut I found also had some some amazing figuring, I'll get a close pic of it. Sadly, it was a very small area of it, hence the covers.

Alright, so I went with no pickguard. (Thanks anyways for the drawings) Here's todays progress. I know, I know, still need to work on the neck heel : P The cavity cover and truss rod cover are both made out of walnut. Next workday i'll do the heel, fix the tuner holes (didn't have the right size drill bit, it turns out) and install the bridge & ferrules. One last idea - should I give it a walnut binding too? After sticking on a walnut cavity & truss rod cover it seemed like a neat idea. Would tie it together, I think. Thoughts?

I've been working on my first guitar lately and at this point I need some input, so I decided to go ahead and post my progress. Specs: Cherry body Bolt-on maple neck w/ ebony fretboard & cherry headstock veneer 25" scale 1.75'' thick body (At the moment : P) JB/59 Seymour Duncan Humbuckers w/ chrome covers All chrome hardware 1 Volume & 2 tone knobs, with coil tapping & phase shift probably 3-way toggle switch I'm trying to decide on where I should go from here. I have a pickguard blank handy that I was originally going to use on the first (much different) design of this guitar, and I was thinking about putting a half-body pickguard on it, with a strat sorta lower part for the three knobs. But then again, I think i'd like having no pickguard at all, and just having the control cavity on the back. Suggestions please!