Hey everyone, thanks for the kind words. I have the seymour duncan jb for the bridge position and a jazz pickup for the neck. I also ordered push push pots for coil splitting. Tonepros will be used for the bridge hardware, I have gotoh tuners and a graphtech tusk xl nut on order. The knobs will be black speed knobs, black pickup selector, pickups and pickup rings will be black, while the bridge, and tuners are going to be gold hardware just to keep things all over the place. Oh, the neck profile will also be the crazy thin wizard profile. I've wanted a Gibson Custom Class 5 blue quilt top since I first saw one in a musiciansfriend.com catalog when I was 14 but Ive never manage to save up the $4500 for it :/ I wasn't even planning on this build, but saw this body on the showcase while I was browsing for a new neck for my very first electric guitar that I was rebuilding and you know as well as I do how bad G.A.S. Can get...plus I had just given my wife the OK to get a new puppy, so I had some purchasing leverage. I couldn't believe that I haven't seen more Royales on the forum...I personally like that Tele-esque shoulder incorporated onto the Les Paul style body more than the regular les paul shape. I would've been happy building any body style guitar, but the way the les paul shape sits over my leg while I'm playing is the most comfortable for my taste.
