The idea was to have a thinline shortscale offset that allows easy changes to the pickups, with adapters for anything from single coils to mini-humbuckers, to full sized humbuckers. I took designs for a strat and a jaguar, and averaged the outlines to get the body shape using a vector drawing program; filling in the rest. Then I bought a cheap mustang clone for parts like the neck, tremolo and hardware. To build the body, I considered getting a slab of wood and attacking it with a router. However, I'd done that before, and didn't want the stress of f-ing the whole thing up, continuously getting worse the closer I got to finishing it. So, I chose to have it laser-cut out of sheets of plywood, and then glue it together. I'm aware of the controversy around using plywood, but thought I could just try. It turned out great. So here are some pictures:
Edit: I can't see the images for some reason. This is the album
Luxicaster album
These are the cut sheets of plywood as I got them from the shop:
These were then glued on top of each other:
And then I sanded all edges to get it smooth (and to get rid of the barbecue smell):
Then I routed the edges, and stained and tru-oiled the body:
And put everything together:
At the moment there is a p90 in the bridge position and a jaguar PU in the neck position, with phase switches for both. The sound is great, and the sustain is not bad at all.
