Skyjerk

OK, so this brings me up to date. the pix above are where I'm at. I just designed a series of 8 top carve templates which I'll be cutting out of MDF probably tomorrow night and then I'll start that carve by the weekend, Updates to come soon

Yep. Its all mahogany. Honduran, but from Bolivia actually

took my neck blank out of the clamps. Pretty fugly right? Not for long...

So I took my mahogany boards and shaped them up. Jointer 2 sides, thickness plane, etc, and glued them up. I made this neck blank wider than previous builds. On previous I made it the exact width of the widest point on the fretboard. Mostly for convenience sake. I dont think it makes that much difference when its an LP or LP style build because the bridge is anchored in the maple top, not the mahogany. With a recessed Floyd Rose trem, though, the bushings are well into the mahogany underneath and when the neck blank is narrower like I've made before those bushings are actually in the wings. By going wider with this neck I'll have the bushings in same piece of wood as the nut, rather than in the wing with a joint in between bridge post and nut. Does this make a difference? I dont know really, but I have to think eliminating a joint between each bridge post and the nut can only be good. The wider blank will also eliminate the need for gluing ears onto the headstock since this will be wide enough for the whole thing, so theres that. I also cleaned up my last piece of Brazilian rosewood for the fretboard. I'm sad its gonna be gone, mostly because it smells so damn good when I'm working it

It was nice to find that I already have everything I need for this build and wont have to spend a nickle other than the hundred bucks I dropped for the top. Heres the mahogany I need for the neck and body, as well as a piece of braz rosewood for the fretboard.

So this is the top I just glued up last week. The shape I traced on there is the single cut design I spoke of before because I originally was going to build another one of those. Ignore it

Hi everyone. Nice to meet you. I just stumbled on this community and signed right up. I started building a couple years ago and have spent a lot of time with the MLP "luthiers corner" forum. I see at least one familiar name here, KnightroExpress. Anyway, this is a build I currently have in progress. I started cutting and gluing over the holiday weekend I call this guitar "22 Magnum". Id call it "PRS inspired" simply because theres definitely some kinship there, but it was not originally a goal with the design, nor did I start with a PRS shape and modify it. I started using the bottom half of an original single cutaway design I just finished building "22 Special" and wanted a double cutaway version. I screwed around with the upper horn area and some adjustments to the lines all around and arrived at this shape. The similarities were there pretty clearly, so I just call it "PRS inspired" even though it actually wasnt, because otherwise people are just going to assume I took a PRS shape and moved a couple lines, and called it mine. anyway, I'm also using a 25" scale length, and also not in a deliberate effort to imitate a PRS. My 22 Special build was also a 25" scale length and that was my starting point. I'm also very comfortable playing that scale length so theres that too At this point, though, I deliberately decided to do a PRS style top carve and faux binding because, well why not? Its already PRSish even though that wasnt the original intention, so lets just roll with it So heres the original design. This will be neck-through-body with carbon fiber reinforcement rods, an LMI double action truss rod, stainless frets, a brazillian rosewood fretboard, a bookmatched, flamed maple top, bolivian mahogany body and neck, an original Floyd Rose trem, stainless frets, SD pickups, planet waves locking tuners, hardware is all black, and the top is probably going to be red with popped flame, and a nitro finish. One thing I've changed is the 3-way toggle in the design is actually going to be a 5-way blade that will have coil splits at positions 2 and 4

Andrew, thats the longest build thread in history