P90 GAS-ing - Purchase Soon - What Say You Lot?

ThreeChordWonder said:
I can but this body for about $170 shipped. I used another body from this seller for my thinline with regular Tele pickups (SD La Brea set).

I reckon on
  • $170 for the body
  • $130 for a Mighty Mite neck (maple with rosewood or ebony fingerboard)
  • $250 for a set of SD P90s (no Chines knock-offs here matey)
  • $50 to $60 for a decent hardtail bridge (6 string)
  • $50 or so for wiring including a Switchcraft 3-way toggle
  • $50 or so for other bits and pieces
  • Total $710, say $700.
Pluses:
  1. Screw-on neck - safer if I ever drop it, just swap out the broken neck;
  2. One-of-a-kind DIY
  3. My choice of pickups, hardware, etc.
  4. Spread the cost, somewhat.
  5. The pleasure of building it.
Minuses:
  1. Screw-on neck, no neck scallop
  2. One-of-a-kind DIY, low resale value should I ever part with my partscaster
  3. That front control route.
  4. You can't see it in the pic, but that body has a cut-out in the back for switch access. I guess I'm going to need a LP style cover for that, and on the front either fit a LP/SG switch plate or a blank one of the same sort.
The main thing for me is that the front control route leaves me with two options.

Either I fit a full size pickguard like I've got on my already built thinline (pie attached). That covers up so much of the wood, and I really would (sorry) like to see more of the wood (sorry again) when I'm done.

The second option is to make a custom pickguard or just a cover for that control cavity. I could buy a regular thinline pickguard and chop it back,or buy some pickguard cover material and cut out a plate to just cover the control cavity. The latter appeals more, and I guess I could glue in some, say, 3/4 x 3/8 or so wood strips to form a lip I could screw a cover down onto.

What say you lot?

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Hey I recognize this thought process of going down the rabbit hole of building a partscaster! Good luck :)
 
I hate top say this...but I'd get this (used):

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Or This personally....

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Im with Ace -if you can find used

This is the ultimate P90s guitar -1961 LP TV Special

Somewhere between a 50s LP and a 60 SG -and the neck profile and radius is much better than an LP

I think you can get a used reissue for just over 1k

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