Hey everyone. I've been lurking for a couple of months, so thought it was time to introduce myself. I'm Nic, from Western Australia. I did an electric guitar building course back in 2015 and absolutely fell in love with the process and promised myself I would make another one.
I've had a couple of false starts since then; one later in 2015 where I bought some Australian timbers online but wasn't particularly enamoured with them when they showed up in person (qld maple neck which was nice, some random, brownish aussie fret board which never really tickled me, and a camphor laurel body blank that wasn't terribly flat and I didn't know how to flatten). So that parked up for a while.
In late 2017 I got all keen again, I purchased some really nice tasmanian blackwood body and neck blanks and a nice Indian rosewood fretboard to make a bass guitar. I got going well on that one but made a mistake in gluing down the fret board and it moved, I tried to get it off but cupped it reasonably badly. I was very disappointed and parked it up again.
Anyway, fast forward to earlier this year and I decided that I really needed to have another crack at it; it had been bugging me that I had never finished one.
Im only getting a couple of hours a weekend to work on it, and I've started with the neck (get the hardest bit done firs, I suppose) and I'm really stoked with how it's all going.
So, to the specs, I'm doing a tele inspired, but probably closer to les paul in execution, guitar. Neck is the qld maple blank, fret board is the random brownish wood, body is the tassie blackwood, body cap will be some tassie oak I had. Pickups are two P90 style ones; I've not used them before, so keen to hear them in action. Bridge is a wrap around, tuneomatic style.
I'll post a few pics to get up to the current stage of the build