So I've been posting here for a while and it struck me that i might come across as another guy who never shares his work.... enough of that...
Around 11 years ago, i heard the difference between two guitars at a show... I sat down at set break with each one on a knee... long story short, the only difference was that the one had a unity gain buffer on board.... Soooo, i set out the next day and bought the Anderson DIY guitar projects book and designed my own on board preamp
I got together with Pat up at Resurrection Guitars and was just going to buy a neck and leave... a few hours later, we had designed my neck.... I too the neck up to Ohio to my Father's workshop and we built the body around the neck....
All in all, it was a very adventurous project for someone who didn't even know how to TUNE a guitar, let alone PLAY one.... some things i would do completely different, but i would not change how i went about it in the slightest
The body is made of Cocobolo, Red Oak and Kingwood.... The neck is Maple and Mahogany laminates with a Pau Ferro fingerboard and Rosewood taken from an old opium bed (for the fans of Jerry Garcia's Cripe guitars, this is from the same stock Stephen had) on the headstock
the four knobs are for Straight guitar volume, Effects Loop volume, Treble tone and Bass Tone
the 5 switches are for on/off of each pickup and then coil splitters(taps) for the humbuckers
the pickups are Dimarzio Super 2's and an SDS-1