I totally effed up a tele body when i stripped it, i left in the stripper and then decided that i didnt have time to deal with it then, so let it sit over night,
well the next morning that crack appeared, darn cold front blew in, then i zapped in a box with a hairdryer on low to stop anyfurther destruction which caused some dryness cracks, oh well the closed once it sat out for a few days. Now I'm going to use it as template and use this for the body
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...p;rd=1&rd=1
I will cut that in half stack it trace the outline on to each side, mark all the areas on each side to be chambered and chamber my heart out, I will chamber each half leaving the back or top on each part then glue them together, will that work and if so does the joint need some sort of reinforcement? Ie do i need to bind the joint the whole perimeter of the guitar. I will also cut a F-hole or my version of. in the top. put the original Gibson 57 hum,. in the neck, seymour 59 in the middle, Texas Special in the bridge, run the holes for the string through approach,(or use my accidental second bridge i purchased no through body) I will use one 500k volume one 500k tone, eventually wire in a varitone on the control plate between the knobs, and use a 5 way strat switch for pickup selecting, the neck is a mighty mite birseye maple neck. of course a tortoise pickguard since i dont want to buy another, then tung oil it to finish it off, I might stain it to make it darker to go with the pickguard, i'll test that on some scrap first.
Thoughts and some comments are welcome especially on the whole body construction idea