Had Friday off work so with kids at school and wife at work I finally managed to spend some time with this one.
Finally got the ferrules in for the neck bolts. One of the holes needs deepening a little.
Neck's on!
Positioning the bridge.
Action shot...
Had to adjust the tremolo rout as it was stopping the bridge from sitting on its posts properly.
Might need to increase the depth of the tremolo route, not sure how thick the cavity covers will be yet.
Bridge. Mmmmmm... Shiny.
There's a cock-up. You can see the bottom of the tremolo rout. I'll never see it while playing and this is supposed to be a practice build, so I don't think I'll bother fixing it.
I eased the round over a bit with a file and sandpaper, added a very slight cutaway where the guitar sits on your leg, but you can't really see it in this photo.
Need to rout recesses for the cavity covers, fix the switch channel, and the neck pocket needs deepening by a mm or 2. Then the body is ready for finish sanding
Will do some finish testing during the week if I get time, although natural wood is growing on me.
The bridge is quite large and I'd originally planned on using chrome pickup rings, but with chrome pickup covers it might be a bit too much chrome, so may have to rethink that.