Starting My New Build

[Wrangler]

What do you think about my build? I'll be ordering (hopefully) within the next week or so:
     
     A Carved Soloist Body with and Angled Strat Head stock
     
     Neck: Lefty, wenge neck, brazillian rosewood fingerboard, 1 11/16
              Wizard back contour, Schaller tuners mini, 6150, MOP dot Inlay
              Pre-installed Graphite nut, The pegface will be solid black, 22
              frets

     Body: Mahogany body w/ Flamed maple laminate top, Rear routed
              (Is rear routing standard?), Contoured heel, HXH, Black Dye top
              with Black back and sides, Natural binding

     Hardware: Gotoh Wilk trem chrome, chrome knobs, 500k volume push
                     pull,  500k tone, 3 way, schaller chrome strap locks
                     Bare Knuckle uncovered nailbombs

 

[Shmoopie]

Why will you pull the plug  :icon_scratch:

 

[Mor Paul]

How about natural back and sides?

 

[Wrangler]

I guess i never really thought of that. I think that would look nice when i think about it though  :hello2:

Do you guys thing that the rosewood fingerboard will look wierd?

 

[NonsenseTele]

You should call it "reverse neck" instead of "lefty"... in reverse, the nut is cutted to righty and the "lefty" is a neck for lefty handed people

 

[Wrangler]

I'm left handed

 

[NonsenseTele]

I'm for that  :laughing7:

And good to see BKP here again

 

[Mor Paul]

Maybe an ebony board would match the black dye maple.

Oh, and if you want, creme binding on the body would look killer, I think.

 

[NeilStryker]

is the top maple going to be clear coated or dyed a color?   i'd opt for a warmoth head myself, let people know it's custom.  

 

[Mor Paul]

    Body: Mahogany body w/ Flamed maple laminate top, Rear routed
              (Is rear routing standard?), Contoured heel, HXH, Black Dye top
              with Black back and sides, Natural binding

Dye

And I second the Warhead! Why cover up the Wenge with a solid black peghead, btw?

 

[Wrangler]

It will be dyed black.

I always thought the blank headstock would give it away as being custom . . .but anyways . . .

Max about the headstock. . . I just thought the chocolate wenge would look weird with the black body. 

What do you think about the overall look?
What about the natural binding and braz. fingerboard?

Thanks :rock-on:

 

[Mor Paul]

You can get a flame maple veneer to match the body  :sign13:

Natural binding would look pretty good, I think. Are you going for plain masked or a lip-over?
Brazilian fingerboard. Hmm... There's a lot of variation in rosewood, from what I just looked at in the showcase. If you get a more chocolate-colored one, it could work, I think.


I'm no expert, though. I'm only working on my first guitar right now.
And why wouldn't you want it to look custom?

 

[T.L.]

The description of your project sounds very cool.  Congratulations. I will be starting mine SOON, and am really looking forward to it...
:glasses9: