Hey guys, Kental here. I am starting my first full guitar build and want to get as much feed back as I can on it. My goal is a loosely inspired double cutaway Les Paul style. The woods I'm going to be using are Maple for the core of the body and Bloodwood for the front and backs. I am going to have a through neck construction again using maple as the core and bloodwood on the outer sides. I can hear yall now "Bloodwood NOT on your first build, its extremely dense and heavy wood and will dull your tools very quickly!" LOL I already know this as I've built several pieces of furniture and used it in some of them. Its a very difficult wood to work as it can have tear outs real easily. I will compensate for this by taking material off little by little. I plan on doing an oil rubbed finish on it to really let to grain show. Since Bloodwood has a beautiful tight grain pattern and gorgeous red coloring I was going to use gold hardware for a classy look. Starting with the tonepro tune-o-matic bridge set and planet waves auto-trim locking tuners. One of my problems in the planing is I'm not wanting to use active pickup. I'm wanting to get a more natural sound from the Bloodwood with passives, but not really sure which would be a good fit for the Bloodwood. Bloodwood has a good sustain and a bright tap tone I want to retain as much of that brightness as I can but still want good blues/rock pickups. Any ideas on that one and yes I'm wanting the Humbucker Pickups. Just not sure if I should stick with EMG's since I have them in other guitars or go Seymour Duncan or if y'all have a better alternative. My next concern would be the finger board. I have picked up two one is Bolivian Rosewood ( on right in the image) and the other is Bloodwood (left) to match the body. What are y'alls thoughts? Here are the pieces I have cut out to rough lengths so far. I'm needing to cut one more board for the other side of the neck and the wings for the head stock. The pieces currently sitting at the head stock area are just scraps and the grain is going cross and not up and down with the neck so they are out.