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yeah I thought the sane thing but not sure how deep to rout and yes that is a benchtop jointer in the background.

Zarguld, I applaud your enthusiasm

Couple of things -

How thick are those bodies you have made ? A couple look to be thin. 45mm is the standard thickness for a tele / strat style body.

Painting the bodies seems a bit premature - you don't seem to have routed the neck pocket or the pickups / control cavity yet ?

You also need to round over the edges on the bodies unless you are going to bind them.

Necks are easy to make, I can come up with a pdf of a tele / strat neck if you are in need. Take it to a print shop, print it full size and you have something to make your template from . Drop me an IM if you need the pdfs.

Cheers and good luck !!

David

thanks the only thing that I did rout was the round over all around.

Terry's pdf gives you the depths to route the cavities -

Don't cut your neck pocket till you have the neck to check against your template

To late cut it out already.

You are a machine.

I would make for an interesting test scenario. Just say tou have the same scratch plate (with picups) and same neck and swaped them between bodies. It would make for a very intersting test on the tonal characteristics of the timbers you have used.

Keep it up.

Peter

Originally Posted by peterbrown

You are a machine.

I would make for an interesting test scenario. Just say tou have the same scratch plate (with picups) and same neck and swaped them between bodies. It would make for a very intersting test on the tonal characteristics of the timbers you have used.

Keep it up.

Peter

Well we can allways try it out and see.

Ok saw a couple of measurements but mainly did it by eye and what I thought looked right too besisides ifugeured it took me about ten mins to make so no bigie if it wasn't right anyway let us know what you think to me it looks ok but you guys would know better.

Originally Posted by Zarguld

Ok saw a couple of measurements but mainly did it by eye and what I thought looked right too besisides ifugeured it took me about ten mins to make so no bigie if it wasn't right anyway let us know what you think to me it looks ok but you guys would know better.

Champ, what scale are you using? Seeing as youve already routed out the bridge pickup, did you consider the length from the bridge saddles to the Nut determines your scale? For instance if you are using 25.5 inch scale, then the length from the Nut to the bridge saddle crown (I think I got that right - guys jump in anythime), where the string comes through and bites must be 25.5 inches....assuming you want the instrument to tune/stay in tune correctly.

Im no expert, as Im only just making my first guitar, after several months of following other builders and reading a ton. The one fact that keeps popping in my head over and over is the neck is the most important part of the instrument. Take your time. You seem to be in a hurry, which I can understand, as Im hanging to play an instrument I actually made with my bare hands as well - but in the end, no point making an instrument that looks good, but doesnt play.

Just my 2 cents worth.

I totaly agree with you and I have rushed like crazy just a bit to enthusiastic I just can't stop working on it when I am not working on it I am thinking about working on in it is driving me crazy,I think that if i finish this guitar goodor bad then I can slow down take what I have learnt and apply it properly with out thinking about it 24/7