This is true. You could probably recoup most of your costs depending on how many of the parts you don’t need/are able to sell.Sweetfinger wrote: ↑Thu Sep 03, 2020 9:04 pmThe best part is that after, you'll have the perfectly good body you can sell. I need a pickguard from one of those.
This is also true. I guess in the end it really depends on what you actually want. From a purely practical perspective I’d go with option A. (build and paint body/ sell spare parts) If you just want a playable lefty offset this is the most logical route aside from maybe just buying one outright.CROSS_guitars wrote: ↑Thu Sep 03, 2020 11:36 pmBest case scenario is, if you use the existing body and mod it, it will end up in the
"Why did you do it? Why did you do this thing to me?" thread and someone will say "I'd still rock the hell out of that!"
However, if you either just want a challenge, or to do something different just for the sake of it then by all means, choose the modding route. All the builds I come up with happen pretty much that same way. I think up a crazy concept that may not necessarily be great in terms of practicality or functionality but could be cool, and I see what can be done with it. Some have practical aspects, sure. But it’s mostly just to see if I can get around certain issues, throw unorthodox things together and come out the other side with something different than what everyone else has. Granted, they VERY rarely come out well. Especially in comparison to what other people have done on the forum. I cannot hope to match the guitar wizardry of Deed_Poll , for example. But in the event it does turn out well I always feel really rewarded by the experience. And even if it doesn’t I get to learn and improve.
Sorry for the long winded response, but yeah. Essentially you’ve just gotta decide whether to go the practical route or the creative one. Or maybe even some of both. After all, if you do go the route of making a body it could essentially be whatever shape you like.
