I didn’t go ahead with the wacky body shape, but I have made one major change to the look, so it looks different…again I will post up a photo once I get my finishing process sorted.
Strung it up recently and it turns out that this guitar really needs quite heavy strings in order to get the low action that I desire. Obviously this has no truss rod, and on top of that is short scale (22.7). So in order to pull the neck in to a tiny bit of relief then a plan was in order. I was disappointed with the “skinny top, heavy bottom” set that I had on there. So I put the E and B string from a 12 gauge set on and it seemed to do the job of letting me lower the action. I’m assuming that it has pulled the neck in to a little bit of relief, although I can’t see any, it must be there. Main thing is, that it plays nicely. It’s not tough to bend on at all, even with this gauge. Although the scalloping obviously helps.
I also put in some fall away (first time doing that). It’s amazing how clear the notes sound up on the dusty end.
Almost forgot to mention, it’s now 20mm at its thickest point. So still very much waif…but not to the extent where a McDonalds is in order