Making a template. I got a spindle sander machine for a good price on an ebay deal. It can also mount a belt sander. Wish i had bought one of these years ago!
Rough cut and sanded body ready to rout. Its a two piece Korina body, quite light and pretty grain.
Trimmed body with pickguard design.
With the Tele I've almost finished building, didn't do a build thread for that one but its also a Korina body, with tort binding. All the tort!
Cavities routed out. Going two humbuckers on this one but the body shape fits JM pickups too, or 3 single coils with a different pickguard design.
Using a Allparts Strat neck on this.
This is where it gets wild! I wanted to try dying Korina bright colours. I've never seen this done before but it worked pretty well. The wood is so light colour that they look almost as vibrant as on maple. However the grain never wants to stop raising, its frankly a bit of a pain in the ass to work around that, but possible.
Tru Oil over the top for the finish. Didn't grain fill, I'm digging the open grain look.
Matching headstock because why not. That came out better than I thought it might. Made a logo and decals too. The cat is Gus, my big ginger Manx lad
And heres where things have got to now.
It still needs the nut fitting, the wiring doing and a few bits and pieces sorting like pickguard mounting and strap buttons.
Hoping to at some point sell some variation of this design, never built a guitar for anyone else and thats kinda the goal at some point, pretty happy with how this looks, even if its not a revolutionary new shape!
The pickups are PRS 85/15s that I put in some funky covers and the bridge is a pretty cool multi adjustable roller Schaller thing, going for a bit of an 80s shredder vibe on this.
) I'll take some proper photos in natural light.