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Probably none if you're not fitting a tone control

The EMGs would need battery power, so you may want to consider a clip for that. Are you intending to fit a pre-amp?

Another great tip! The inlay work looks fantastic

My pet hate is the unnecessary apostrophe after an acronym e.g. DVD's for sale One that did cause a lot of thought was a local building supplier who has a sign on the road saying LOOSE AGG'S. I'll let that one go

Excellent work!

Upon my word! Lovely bird, SPECTACULAR guitar!

Ouch! For that much it's probably worth driving up to Manchester to collect it!

Colour me impressed! Great ideas on both the fret slotting and board radiusing

Your "normal" methods involve a £3 bottle of ink - yes it IS relatively expensive Btw, I don't think I've mentioned what a great job you are doing on this bass yet

In that case replace "brave" with "cool"

Nice work Are you slotting your fretboard on a table saw? Very brave if so! I assume it's quite a thin blade...

I'll be interested how you find their coloured nitro. I'm using their clear nitro when I finally get around to putting a finish on. Their metallics look interesting too

I'm hoping to get it done by my birthday in February - I'm having doubts that I'll even hit that though. The bass bash is usually in May? If it's not done by then it's going on the log burner!

Thanks!

And of course fitting a pre-amp/buffer will mean you'll need somewhere to put a battery as well

Ooh - that's a beauty!

I've routed the inner part of the rear access and drilled for the socket. However this has exposed a slight oversight - the standard telecaster 3-way switch won't fit in the recess! Luckily I've not cut the front yet, so I'll have to tweak the design slightly to use a lower profile switch. Of course this means that my chromed control mounting plate isn't quite right either. Oh well, I had to make a least one cock up - just glad it's not too major The rear cover will have to come down quite a bit in thickness to give room to fit magnets in both that and the body. There should be room though - they are very small magnets By heck the garage is cold though - progress is slowing down. We've had a few cold nights recently, and given a choice between freezing my bits off in the garage or sitting by a roaring log fire - I'm afraid the fire has won My guitar building classes have also finished for this year. I'll see how much I can get done at home over December, but the band gigs are ramping up a bit for the festive season

Lovely inlay work & nice guitar!

We're getting down to the small fiddly bits that take ages and don't seem to be much progress. Anyway, the rear access panel (flamed maple body offcut that also provided the headstock veneer) has been bound with an offcut of the mother-of-toilet-seat binding and has then spent a few hours on the sanding table. There's still a bit more to do, but I don't want to go too mad while I'm still sorting out the router templates. The internal control plate is also back from being chromed. Yes, next time I'll polish it up. You can still see the sanding marks, but as it's an internal plate and the chrome plating was mainly to avoid tarnishing I'm not going to fret about it (puntastic!). And then the most time consuming bit - the router templates. I've gone for a flush trim rather than use a guide bush, as it will help with alignment. The inner one is complete, the outer rebate template still needs some fettling to get the cover sitting in it nicely while allowing a bit room for a few coats of lacquer. The lugs on the inner the,plate are for neodymium magnets Pictures: Edit: I changed my avatar btw - those goggles are SO useful to my knackered old eyes

That's looking beautiful. I might have to invest in a set of gouges. I don't know what I'd use them on yet though

That purple is gorgeous. Nice guitar too

Welcome. Looking forward to seeing some sawdust from you

Beautiful!

Thanks! I just hope that I get my control plate back from being chromed soon, or I'm going to run out of things to do. I've been told it should be this week

Thanks chaps. Those remaining pencil marks are now gone, but it was too cold in the garage to do much more last night & the log burner was roaring & calling me into the living room . It's getting harder & harder to drag myself outside as winter kicks in. I might have to try insulating it in the spring. I would have angled it towards the rear so that the only light shining out would be from internal diffusion. I even went as far as buying a surface mounted AA battery holder. Perhaps I'll try it on a future build. A reddish/orange glow would have looked good though.