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Man, I love all the cool different tools/ways to do things I find in this forum. So clever!

Love it!

A good shinto rasp is worth its weight in gold when shaping a neck. Rough it out with ye olde shinto (and maybe a rasp) and dial it in with a scraper - its so oddly calming to slowly shave the neck down to size..!

This is going to be awesome!

I'm pretty sure thats fir. Its pretty ubiquitous here in the Pacific NW, and SVG fir is used a lot as mouldings/trims and stuff.

Sounds like it'd be great to experiment with; if it ends up god-awful, you can rest easy knowing it was cheapo geetar. My experience with the Squier Affinitys is pretty much what is said above - electronics are crap, hardware is pretty crap, but otherwise they are (usually) solid.

When I was but a young pup in guitar-playing, my uncle told me "The guitar doesn't know what country it came from. Maple is maple." (I don't always agree 100% with this statement, but 9 times outta 10, its true)

Looks like its pretty dense and "oily" - It sounds like it is probably very similar to Ipe. Wikipedia says that North Indian rosewood is sometimes referred to as Tali, but this doesn't look like a Dalbergia...

If it IS as dense as Ipe....dude that guitar is going to weigh 147 pounds, so get a good strap! :P