Hi
I've lurked around here for a while, and as I'm going to be starting a new project soon (as soon as my hand is in one piece it's in a cast at the moment) I thought I should post it. I have only done quite basic flattop bodies before so any help oe comments welcome.
I'll be using a bought neck and just making the body. The body is going to be jazzmaster shape, with the top and back radiused sort of like s-series ibanez. As I've been off work I've had a playg with the CAD, not done any 3d modeling before so this took be a while. You can ignore the colours they were just to be able to see whats going on
To do this I plan to use a radiusing (is that a real word?) jig along the same lines as I have seen some people here use with a router in a curved sledge on rails. All the routing for neck, pickups etc would be done first. Then the radius, on the first side 4 'posts' would be left one in each corner on the body. This is so the body will stand steady to do the other side.
The 3 main things I still have to work out is, how and where to put the jack, the routes for the controls is very tight and I'm not I will get a notmal 3 way tele style switch in there, depth is 1" 1/4 and will I need to recess the bridge to get correct string height and the there will not be any neck angle (hopefully)
Specs so far
Body 2 piece Korina
finish true oil possible with a stain will wait to see the wood in the flesh to decide
Neck ? (what I can get on ebay prob strat style maple + rosewood neck)
Pickups 2 P90's probable iron gear as i'm on a quite a tight budget on this
Bridge Compensated wrap around probably Wilkinson or Gotoh
Any comments appreciated. I'm sure there must be something I've missed that will come and bite me on the bottom .