Last march-ish i decided that it would be fun to build my own guitar. mainly because the ones i have suck. hard. a squire strat, and an equal as crappy strat knock off. so i started my research and i got here, where i might add, i have found immense knowledge and helpful people.
being rather impatient i sort of started with out doing what i should have done first... reading Melvyn Hiscock's book. (don't worry though, i ordered it and it should be here this week.) so far i have gotten most of my parts, and made a mock up of the body out of cheap pine from homedepot.
then i got sidetracked with moving my workshop because where it is currently really sucks.
old workshop: http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp20/sa...28/DSC01930.jpg
new workshop: http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp20/sa...28/DSC01914.jpg
i am almost done with that, and i have some money saved up for the rest of the stuff i need. too bad i have little time to work as i am a senior in high school and guess what that means! yep, college apps. fun stuff.
anyhoo, my plan is such, modeled after the Gibson Flying V (kinda) it is a pointy v, almost Jackson like. its gonna be silver with the bevel black. im getting a hobby air brush this next week, so i might use that for painting it.
i got (cheap) EMGs, (the EMG Select Humbuckers from StewMac (my new favorite store)) a LesPaul style TOM Bridge and stop tailpiece. i wanted to get the hang of everything else before i try a neck, so i bought one off of eBay. its an Eden neck, and when i asked my friend who happens to be a godly guitarist, he said it was rather good. and since i only paid $55 including shipping, i was happy.
http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp20/sa...28/DSC01934.jpg
so now that intro to this project is out of the way, i still need to decide what body wood i want to use. i was leaning towards mahagony, but since im painting it a solid color, im leaning against it. (and its pretty expensive, isnt it?) so i was thinking either swamp ash, or alder.
also the TOM i bought didnt come with the bushing, and is just the threaded rods, and thumb screws, i was wondering if i could buy just the bushings, cause i would rather do it that way, or should i just tap the wood, and thread it that way?
~Dan