First of all, I must acknowledge and thank Aaron for the invitation, and the entire Warmoth family for hosting such a wonderful event.
All in all, due to current economic circumstances, I only spent about $35 there, including the baseball jersey t shirt, this body, and this neck. I consider this a great blessing and thank God from whom all blessings flow.
This body is a Hybrid Tele body in a 2 piece roasted alder with the pool route and recessed Floyd route. It has the forearm and gut cuts as well, pocket notes indicated a weight of 3.5 lbs.
The neck is a roasted maple Warhead in a Standard Thin Profile with the standard 10-16” compound radius, fretted in 6150 wire, and nutted in what appears to be a standard white Dorian or white Tusq nut. The turquoise face dots is what is inspiring the rest of the aesthetic on this build. Regarding the nut, which one it may happen to be is of no consequence because when I finish my polishing routine on the slots the performance will be the same reliability.
I already have a couple of EMG SV single coils in surplus that I’ll use for this in the neck and middle. I’ll add an EMG 58 to the bridge for the best balanced Superstrat P/U config. Hardware will be black and since I’m partial, I’ll likely go for the Gotoh 1996 T Floyd Licensed bridge. I’m going to grain fill the pores in black, then same back, then dye the body a lighter translucent green, then follow up with a Wipe On Poly finish. I’m toying with either of these two pickguard, but I’m leaning into the green one. With the black hardware, even the screws, knobs, and switch tip on the pickguard will also be black just to add that extra little bit of contrast. Plus, I already have a white Pearl pick-guard on my “Pearl” J-Bass 5. I omitted the first two pot holes on the pick-guard because I have a pick-guard that I use as a template to relocate the master volume to be located exactly at the center location between what would normally be V1 & V2. My “ Nigel” Strat from a few years back examples this. It keeps the volume out of my way when playing, but still accessible on demand.
This guitar will be affectionately named “Turq”.
