Just ordered my first build! Gold flake double bound tele w/rosewood neck and ebony fingerboard!

well, I got her all put together and strung up! Have a bit of a grounding issue to sort out, and the action isn’t perfect. I think most of my issues with the action will be solved, just adding a little bit of relief to the neck which is right now almost perfectly straight. I am immensely happy with how everything looks put together! And I know it is going to rock my socks off once I get everything dialed in.
 

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Nice!! I've been wanting to do this with inferno flake (but on a different body). Helpful to see a "preview" of the look! Is it me or is Warmoth neck binding thicker than most?
 
Oh, forgot this one! Here’s the body, neck and pickguard together! Gives a pretty good idea of what it’ll look like in the end!View attachment 60555
What do you think of a pearloid pickguard or an aged pearloid pickguard? Just throwing out ideas since I like to have a variety of pickguards laying around. I like to treat pickguards and plastics (maybe even pickups half the time) as clothes for my guitars and I like to change them out on strats and teles. Sometimes it inspires a different feeling, its like changing to a different gauge of strings, sometimes that gets me inspired to play my guitar even more or play differently.
 
If you're looking for something off menu, like a strat body with double binding, you have to pick up the phone, call the Mothership, and be brave enough to speak to a human (The are friendly humans). Of course there would be no contours, but it would seem do-able as to the binding. Let us know what they say. I heard that an email works too, but it's nice to interact with humans.
 
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If you're looking for something off menu, like a strat body with double binding, you have to pick up the phone, call the Mothership, and be brave enough to speak to a human (The are friendly humans). Of course there would be no contours, but it would seem do-able as to the binding. Let us know what they say. I heard that an email works too, but it's nice to interact with humans.

I shall open up my can of spinach and popeye my way on the phone, wish me luck. 🎸
 
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