Started this March 3rd, finished and assembled it/setup on the 30th.
It was an old Oak tabletop that had been sitting around the house for 10-15 years doing nothing but collecting dust.
I had all the parts already from my parts drawers.
Oak is h-e-a-v-y, so I chambered the living bejeesus out of it.
This is only 1.5" thick and it was still quite heavy to begin with.
Everything under the pickguard and extra around the control cavity.
It's a standard guitar weight now, very comfortable and very solid.
I also distressed the finish in several areas, including the headstock, I love how it came out.
I actually had a roll of iron-on Oak veneer (for furniture building) I used for the headstock, it matches the body pretty good now.
I had no expectations going in, whatever happened happened, but it came out great, love it.
Pickups: Gibson Marauder bridge in the neck, Barden middle, Zhangbucker TarPaper 8.5k A3 bridge.
Warmoth neck, SS frets, Ebony over Maple.
Electronics:
250k pots, 047uF tone cap.
3-way switch w/ push-pull tone control.
The push/pull switches between the middle and bridge pickup.
So down, it acts just like a Tele, like the middle pickup isn't there. Neck/neck-bridge/bridge.
Pull up, and it's neck/neck-middle/middle.
It was an old Oak tabletop that had been sitting around the house for 10-15 years doing nothing but collecting dust.
I had all the parts already from my parts drawers.
Oak is h-e-a-v-y, so I chambered the living bejeesus out of it.
This is only 1.5" thick and it was still quite heavy to begin with.
Everything under the pickguard and extra around the control cavity.
It's a standard guitar weight now, very comfortable and very solid.
I also distressed the finish in several areas, including the headstock, I love how it came out.
I actually had a roll of iron-on Oak veneer (for furniture building) I used for the headstock, it matches the body pretty good now.
I had no expectations going in, whatever happened happened, but it came out great, love it.
Pickups: Gibson Marauder bridge in the neck, Barden middle, Zhangbucker TarPaper 8.5k A3 bridge.
Warmoth neck, SS frets, Ebony over Maple.
Electronics:
250k pots, 047uF tone cap.
3-way switch w/ push-pull tone control.
The push/pull switches between the middle and bridge pickup.
So down, it acts just like a Tele, like the middle pickup isn't there. Neck/neck-bridge/bridge.
Pull up, and it's neck/neck-middle/middle.
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