...aaaaaaand we're back from the dead.
not much progress on this, but some.
opportunity to build has been very limited due to impracticality of doing it in my apartment, plus the insanity of quitting one's job to go full-time with one's own business.
Still, I've got a little done, and hope to wrap this one up by Christmas.
So i put together a neck from some laminates, got it scarfed, routed the TR channel and cut the rough profile. And it was by no means perfect, and I wasn't really loving the wood choices and how they'd look against the body (it was a 5-piece of bubinga / maple / padauk / maple / bubinga). I also found the bubinga a little difficult to work - prone to chipping.
So I binned it and started again on the neck.
The new one is same woods, just in different amounts / order - so it's maple/padauk/maple/bubinga/maple/padauk/maple with the 5 central strips all pretty thin (.25" or so) making the majority of the neck a nice flamy maple.
I'm pretty pleased with how clean it looks at this stage, so hoping this neck overall turns out better than the last. sometimes you've just got to cut your losses.
getting the stripes lined up was a little tricky.
one other change to this build - I'm probably now not going to use alumitones. A friend of mine back in the UK is launching his own line of pickups so he's going to send me out a pair of P90s that I can put in this - can someone confirm the route depth i'd probably need for p90s (obviously ball park as it's contingent on bridge type/neck angle, etc).