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This is after I had rough cut and then routed the body to shape. I am swiss-cheesing it to remove wood so that it is semi-hollow and then cleaning it up with my router. After this it was capped with a 1/4" black walnut top.



Top has been glued on. Body is a 1/4" Black Walnut 5/4" Fir 1/4" Black walnut sandwich.






Cleaned up the glued-on top with a jigsaw and then the router.



Routed for neck and electronics.



Routed for "N-hole" and controls. Edge has been rounded over with the router as well.



Tru-Oiled up.



De Lisle ferrule block installed as well.



Simple wiring, but pretty tidy so I'm proud of it.



Neck is bolted.





Finished product. 5 coats of Tru-Oil have been applied and it was buffed very gently with cloth. Has a Squier Tele neck that i am quite fond of, a GFS Mean 90 in the neck, a Seymour Duncan '59 in the middle, and a Fender No-Caster in the bridge. Tuners and Bridge are GFS. CTS pot for volume, switchcraft jack. Five way selector wired with the same combos a strat would offer. It sounds great and plays super smooth, I have it set up with a pretty medium action, right where I like it.

great job. You make is look so easy.

How does it sound? Do you need to tweak anything?

very cool, nice work!! Interesting pickup selection. How does she sound?

Looks very nice, China Cat!

Why no tone controls though?

It sounds great! The No-Caster is classic Tele sound, and I love 59's. I wasnt sure how the P90 would sound (never had a P90 guitar), but I love the P90. My favorite positions have to be P90/Humbucker combined or pretty much any pickup by itself sounds very nice. It was really easy to get the sound I go for on this guitar without much tweaking.....even though i ditched a tone knob for simplicity's sake (I wanted to mound the jack on the plate and this was my first full wiring project).

The semi-hollow fir has some sweet sustain too

That is sharp! Congrats!

thanks!

figured i'd bump this for some more constructive criticism/comments

Sweet guitar!

I like the beard reveal as you scroll down the page.