I borrowed somebody's camera yes.
This is the neck, made of mahogany with a rosewood fingerboard.
The light touches the mahogany in interesting ways, as you can see it shimmers (gets darker or lighter) depending on the angle of the camera and the sun (which is to our right and diffused by clouds in these pictures)
These are the pickups I chose, made by Lindy Fralin in Virginia. One is a P-92, which is a split-coil humbucker. The other is an SP-42, which is a high-output Telecaster-style bridge pickup with adjustable steel poles (like those on the P-92). They are both built with P-90-style architecture, and they will have a mid-rangey honk like a P-90 but also a lot of the scooped-out sound typical of a Fender guitar.
I'll have series / parallel options, as well as both in-phase and out-of-phase, giving me 6 tones.
One of these pieces of faux-Tortoise shell will serve as the pickguard, the other as the tremolo cover and control cavity cover (it'll be rear-routed to show off the wood of the body a bit more, and since there won't be much in the way of routing for the neck pickup, those places where the pickguard material appears yellow and waxy will be transparent more or less, so the wood will show through that too, looking very nice.
Here are my strap locks, my tuners (I ordered two sets, one the locking set I needed, and the other set with the knobs I wanted, and then swapped out the knobs. I had to get these from the Netherlands because my tremolo and my neck pickup are covered in nickel-plated steel, and they don't sell Schaller brand nickel-plated steel locking tuners / straplocks in America! It was fun ordering these parts from Europe.
Also pictured is my Trem-King TK2 locking tremolo. If you lose a string, it stays in tune! Since the strings are held in place at the saddle by this unit, you can bend individual strings without moving all the others and the tremolo as well! Also you can go for alternate tunings without having to adjust the tremolo springs. A great invention and it has a Telecaster bridgeplate look, keeping the thing consistent!
This is the hand-beaded strap I purchased from Julie Bristow. It, too, is beautiful. I got it 25% off, which still meant it was very expensive. The flowers are lupine, which is one of my favorite flowers. That cheap plastic adjustment will be swapped out for some sort of leather one at some point in the future.
All I have to order is the body; I'll update this when it comes in!
This is the neck, made of mahogany with a rosewood fingerboard.
The light touches the mahogany in interesting ways, as you can see it shimmers (gets darker or lighter) depending on the angle of the camera and the sun (which is to our right and diffused by clouds in these pictures)
These are the pickups I chose, made by Lindy Fralin in Virginia. One is a P-92, which is a split-coil humbucker. The other is an SP-42, which is a high-output Telecaster-style bridge pickup with adjustable steel poles (like those on the P-92). They are both built with P-90-style architecture, and they will have a mid-rangey honk like a P-90 but also a lot of the scooped-out sound typical of a Fender guitar.
I'll have series / parallel options, as well as both in-phase and out-of-phase, giving me 6 tones.
One of these pieces of faux-Tortoise shell will serve as the pickguard, the other as the tremolo cover and control cavity cover (it'll be rear-routed to show off the wood of the body a bit more, and since there won't be much in the way of routing for the neck pickup, those places where the pickguard material appears yellow and waxy will be transparent more or less, so the wood will show through that too, looking very nice.
Here are my strap locks, my tuners (I ordered two sets, one the locking set I needed, and the other set with the knobs I wanted, and then swapped out the knobs. I had to get these from the Netherlands because my tremolo and my neck pickup are covered in nickel-plated steel, and they don't sell Schaller brand nickel-plated steel locking tuners / straplocks in America! It was fun ordering these parts from Europe.
Also pictured is my Trem-King TK2 locking tremolo. If you lose a string, it stays in tune! Since the strings are held in place at the saddle by this unit, you can bend individual strings without moving all the others and the tremolo as well! Also you can go for alternate tunings without having to adjust the tremolo springs. A great invention and it has a Telecaster bridgeplate look, keeping the thing consistent!
This is the hand-beaded strap I purchased from Julie Bristow. It, too, is beautiful. I got it 25% off, which still meant it was very expensive. The flowers are lupine, which is one of my favorite flowers. That cheap plastic adjustment will be swapped out for some sort of leather one at some point in the future.
All I have to order is the body; I'll update this when it comes in!
