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Good day! First post to the forum (although I've had some interaction elsewhere with The Aaron, thank you sir!) I got notification that the lovely roasted maple neck I ordered has shipped out to me (I'll post pics when it's here) and I'm trying to dial in what I want the rest of it to be so I can get the body started. I've narrowed the general specs to nickel finished hardware with three compensated brass saddles, Gotoh tuners with oval pearl buttons, black pearl pickguard and a white body of some sort... and that's where I'm really stuck. Besides pickups, of course.
So what I'm doing is building a tribute guitar for my dog who just passed.
She was with me for a long time and was essentially my meant to be companion. It's a long story, but we've been through a lot. ANYWAY! I had originally considered doing a flame maple top with the Mary Kay white to kind of emulate the fur but discovered that combo has been discontinued. So I rethought that possibly a nice swamp ash body with that color would be good with the black pearl pickguard sort of emulating the black patch around her left eye. Now I'm sort of spinning around the idea of white pearl with the same pickguard. It just might be snazzier! I'm not sure, looking for any input or ideas.
As far as pickups go, I'm leaning towards some Duncan Broadcasters or something with some snarl to it. I'm not overly familiar with Tele pickups but this is a rock 'n' roll fiddle, not a chicken pickin' rig... although I like flexibility too. :icon_biggrin:
Thanks for letting me share and hang out here!
So what I'm doing is building a tribute guitar for my dog who just passed.
She was with me for a long time and was essentially my meant to be companion. It's a long story, but we've been through a lot. ANYWAY! I had originally considered doing a flame maple top with the Mary Kay white to kind of emulate the fur but discovered that combo has been discontinued. So I rethought that possibly a nice swamp ash body with that color would be good with the black pearl pickguard sort of emulating the black patch around her left eye. Now I'm sort of spinning around the idea of white pearl with the same pickguard. It just might be snazzier! I'm not sure, looking for any input or ideas.
As far as pickups go, I'm leaning towards some Duncan Broadcasters or something with some snarl to it. I'm not overly familiar with Tele pickups but this is a rock 'n' roll fiddle, not a chicken pickin' rig... although I like flexibility too. :icon_biggrin:
Thanks for letting me share and hang out here!