i've been planning my first build for over a month, and came up with this semi-scaled drawing (about 1/2 scale with semi-accurate 24 and 12 fret placements, bridge, and string spread)
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anyway, i'm a bit of a perfectionist about design, and haven't got the lower horn quite to my liking, so suggestions are welcomed
i'm planning to take the plunge, and do it neck-through. and make the neck myself. i know a luthier who has built a number of guitars, and claims he knows good sources for hardware, so i'll take his word for that. i'm getting the lumber locally if possible. my plan is poplar (or alder if it's cheap enough, or whatever better wood i can find cheap) wings, and maple neck (laminated with whatever i can find for a reasonable price)
Just out of curiosity, i'm planning a pickguard made of two (or three, if possible) different colors of material and am wondering if/where this has been done before.
While i am a 14-year old with very little woodworking experiance besides taking shop class every year i've been able to, i am confident enough to do this, and have read through a considerable amount of info on this site. being very slightly autistic, when I get into something, i get REALLY into it, and become a complete expert on it, so don't worry that i don't know what i'm getting myself into.
planned specs- 90cm (approx. 36in) scale
24frets (somehwere between jumbo and speedbumps)
some sort of inlay (maybe small ones on odd frets, maybe just larger simple ones on 12/24
material finish top, black sides, probably natural/poor boy's burst back to shop off the neck-through
thinking of using a 0-fret
i'll probably get the hardware ordered tuesday, so i obviously won't get started actually building for a while yet, but still have time to tweak the body design until i'm completely happy.