ihavenothingprofoundtosay
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My wife waited until today to let me have the hunk of wood in the pic - it was an "extra present" (....that I bought :icon_scratch
. So far, all I have is the body blank, bridge & tuners, but the rest will be ordered shortly. I would have ordered the neck already, but Rush is playing at the Gorge in a few weeks, and I managed to convince my wife to go out there for our anniversary trip. :guitarplayer2: Had to buy her off with an extra day at a B&B, but more than worth it. :icon_biggrin:
The blank is 1 piece of big leaf maple - 2" thick! Currently, it's 11 lbs, so I'll have a lot of carving, scraping, hacking, routing, sawing, etc (along with much practice on scrap wood prior) before it's ready to play.
The plan is to hollow out the sides for a thinline/chambered Firebird, then I'll be grabbing this for a top. At least initially, the electronics will consist of this and this, and nothing else. (Well, maybe this as well.) After much review over lots of other projects on teh webz, I kept thinking this was the most interesting, and the easiest to change later if I wanted different electronics. :toothy10:
Anyone else get any fun loot from the wife & kids?
. So far, all I have is the body blank, bridge & tuners, but the rest will be ordered shortly. I would have ordered the neck already, but Rush is playing at the Gorge in a few weeks, and I managed to convince my wife to go out there for our anniversary trip. :guitarplayer2: Had to buy her off with an extra day at a B&B, but more than worth it. :icon_biggrin:The blank is 1 piece of big leaf maple - 2" thick! Currently, it's 11 lbs, so I'll have a lot of carving, scraping, hacking, routing, sawing, etc (along with much practice on scrap wood prior) before it's ready to play.
The plan is to hollow out the sides for a thinline/chambered Firebird, then I'll be grabbing this for a top. At least initially, the electronics will consist of this and this, and nothing else. (Well, maybe this as well.) After much review over lots of other projects on teh webz, I kept thinking this was the most interesting, and the easiest to change later if I wanted different electronics. :toothy10:
Anyone else get any fun loot from the wife & kids?
