Hey all,
Ok so here I am new to the world of guitar building. I only started learning to play guitar 5 or 6 weeks ago and after watching multitudes of youtube videos I came across Matt at Texas Toast who has some pretty awesome vids on building. I was hooked after the first few vids. I have very little experience in woodworking and figured a pre-cut blank would be the way to go so jumped online and ordered a kit.
So this was advertised as a mahogany body, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard but I don't have the experience to check this and not really concerned as it's my first build. It is a 2 part body and came with all the Chinese bits and pieces to complete it, these will be replaced. There were no predrilled holes so that's something I will have to work out for myself
Initially I went ahead and stained it with a dark walnut stain but it turned out pretty rubbish showing the timber join in the middle and not having much grain to work with. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of this.
While I was deciding what to do I got to work on the neck. One of the reasons I bought this kit was for the uncut headstock. I cut the headstock shape trying to get more of a sharper look than the fender curvy style., gave it a quick sand and used some charcoal stain hoping to get a rough weathered dirty look, nothing fancy. Personally I liked how it turned out, I might have to patent that headstock shape :P.
This build is simple compared to some of the awesome builds I've seen on here.
Cheers