Well once again I decided to get rid of stuff I have lying around and made an inventory of what I can use for a new build and came up with this.
- A Birdseye maple tele neck with a rosewood fingerboard
- A plain maple Strat neck with maple cap fingerboard
- Two Dimarzio Super distortion humbuckers
- Two chrome Fender style hard tail bridges, one toploading the other for string through body construction.
- Two sets of Cast sealed tuners, one for each neck.
-Two chrome humbucker rings.
So with that I decided to build two matching pine body Teles.
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The first body still in the clamps, the glue has set over night
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The second body in the clamps
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Routing the first body
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And here it is after the routing was done.
The second body during the routing
The two bodies together
Then I decided to drop the idea of using the necks I had lying around and instead opted to made the necks from scratch, also when talking to Jack T Ripper, our second guitarist, he asked me if it were possible to give the guitars 24 fret necks and I found no reason why it shouldn't be possible. It also makes that I have to give the guitars a Gibson 24, 1/5 scale length.
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One of the necks while the glue sets
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And here's the neck after the glue dried and I planed it. This particullar neck was made from rest pieces of other necks we made, it consists of three main pieces of Birds eye maple, two layers of rosewood veneer, two layers of maple veneer and two layers of lacewood veneer, the effect as you can tell is striking, this will be a KILLER neck.
As for work on the bodies, I finished routing the neck pockets....
...and started work on the routing of the electronics compartment.