alright, before we get started with what i want to do, this is the piece i'll be working with...it's a jackson JTX, pretty uncommon piece...not too many were made.
ok, now that that's out of the way, i can get into the details of what i want to do.
first off, it's gonna be refinished, i'm most likely going to add a quilted maple veneer, and stain it red, then spray the back and sides either black, or white. havent decided yet.
Since i'm hopefully going to get a nice looking veneer, and do a nice stain job on it, i dont want a huge pickguard to cover the whole thing up. so i was thinking that i could fill in the top routes, and make seperate pickup routes, maybe go hum/hum, or stay hum/single.
that brings me to my question. this is my first real decent amount of modification, and well, i've never really had much practice with this kind of stuff. i'm fairly sure i could do what i've described, but i've never worked with a router, and i've never refinished anything. am i getting in way over my head here, or do you guys think that it'd turn in to a disaster because of the amount of work that would be required? i do believe that i have the patience, the time, and i could develop the skills to make this work, but i'm not completely sure...so anythinf you guys think on this would be cool.
oh, and any suggestions would be cool too.