For my 16th birthday, my dad bought me a Squire strat bullet and from that point on I've always wanted to build a guitar.
Quite recently, we got an abundance of wood and we think we have 6 planks of white ash (+12 ft).
The idea is to buy the same neck and hardware from the strat and make a body out of the white ash.
Is white ash suitable for the body? Or would it be better to get hot pickups for it?
The Squire: https://shop.fender.com/en/intl/squier-electric-guitars/stratocaster/bullet-strat-with-tremolo/0310001532.html
BONUS: Since I can't get a portable amp and not many laptops can handle Guitar Rig without latency, another idea is to have a switch between the final stage of guitar tone editing and the 1/4" jack, place a switch to lead to an small amplifying circuit outputting to an onboard speaker. Maybe even more 1/4" jacks for use with effects. Will the guitar's resonance be to great and ruin it or could this actually work?
I'd post the related pictures and diagrams I had but they are not on me at this time.
Thanks for any help and feedback!