Well, I'm a long term lurker I guess so thought it may be about time to share what I've been up to. Having spent a month on a course building an acoustic guitar (and then finding out I suck at playing acoustic), I thought I'd see if I could build an electric. Its a really nice change of pace from building amplifiers, but I've found it a very steep learning curve. I've approached this in totally the wrong way as I've pretty much changed everything along the way.
Black Limba body, Zebrano drop top and an Ovangkol neck. This is what I was shooting for, but some pretty horrific tearout has led it to be a bit more pointy that originally intended. I was kind of unprepared by how many cracks were in the billets I had.
Ebony bindings gingerly bent with an iron. not quite ready for bending rosewood sides on my own yet.
This is where I'm at now starting to look a bit like a guitar
Badly made string lock
Not really happy about the lower horn at all, but pleased that the binding went on gapless. The biggest boob on this which got be really kicking myself was not cutting the fret slots deep enough before binding.
I'm hooked and am already planning the next build - though I'm trying to tell myself strings on this one before starting the next.
Cheers
Matt