Well, I had a neck, bridge, some pickups lying around, and I saw this big bit of Ash for a pretty reasonable price... So why not?
Specs:
* Ash body (48mm thick, 2-piece)
* Maple neck
* Rosewood fretboard
* Set neck join
* 25.5" scale length
* 22 frets
* Hardtail bridge
* Chrome hardware
* 2x Humbucker pickups
* 1x Volume pot
* 1x tone pot
* 1x 3-way toggle switch
* Black stained and sanded back
* Oil finish
* Clear pickuard (rear routed)
Thats the basic outline, anyways. The neck's a strat replacement style from the bay, this'll be the third guitar it's been on. The bolt-on threads have all gone, the neck's in a bit of a state, so I've decided to glue it into this guitar - a final destination for a pretty well-used neck.
Just gotta get myself up to B&Q and get some 18mm MDF for the template (its on 6mm MDF right now, too thin to rout the body with my 1" router bits), then I can get started proper.
My only concern right now is weight, and the thickness of the body blank. A carve would bring down the percieved thickness a lot, but I've never done a carve before, not sure if the RG would look right with a carve either. Any thoughts on this?
Worthless without pics, so here's my slab of Ash: