And she's done!!
What have I learnt from this build? - patience pays off. It actually plays better & sounds better than any of the other guitars I have built or bought & they include PRS, Ibanez & Fender.
I took it into work yesterday as some of the playing & non-playing folks wanted to see it. One of the guitar playing guys said that it played & sounded better than his Fender Strat & my boss was speechless (which is unusual!)
I've just looked at the date I started this build thread - Jan 25th 2010! It's a whole year longer than I thought it was, where does the time go?
Anyway - I digress - final specs are....
Wood
Body - Northern Ash with Quilted Maple veneer.
Neck - Indian Rosewood with Honduran Rosewood fretboard, 25.5" scale, 22 stainless steel vintage frets. MOP dot markers. Flamed Maple veneer on h/s face.
Backplate - Flamed Ash
Pickups - Seymour Duncan Custom HB at the bridge & 2 Fender Single coils in the neck & middle postions (middle reverse wound)
Hardware - All gold plated. Synchronised vintage vibrato bridge, locking tuners, Marvel locking strap buttons, pearl white scratchplate. Graphteq nut.
Controls - 1 Volume, 2 Tone. 1 Tone for the neck single coil & 1 for the bridge HB with coil tap on neck tone for HB, 5 way p/up selector switch.