Hi All,
My name is Tony Calvert, I live in New Zealand and I don't feel complete unless I have a project (or sometimes two) on the go. I don't own a guitar as I have always had access to about 5 of them owned by other members of my family but I now live in a different city to them all, so I thought I'd build myself one. I started out thinking I would build a rosewood acoustic Dreadnought kit from LMI but in my research I stumbled across John Fishers "Building a Les Paul the hard way" website and decided it was probably the prettiest looking guitar shape around so yesterday I went out and purchased the mahogany.
Here is a run down of what I plan;
An Ebony coloured Les Paul look alike, mahogany neck and body, rosewood fret board, gold gotoh tuning machines, gold tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar, gold plated Seymour Duncan classic cover humbucker pickups, Stew-mac "wiring kit for Les Paul" and Gibson style gold knobs. ( Any suggestions will be appreciated especially on pickup and wiring kit choice).
Although not guitar related I have a website site showing a few of my past and current projects, Kayaks and racing cars.
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/acalvert/
Thanks to everyone for providing a great resource for newbies such as myself.
Cheers Tony