The starting point for my second guitar build – three lumps of wood! The body is single piece of ash, which is going to be combined with the usual combination of a maple neck and rosewood fretboard. I was going to use a rosewood neck blank but I think I’ll leave that till I’m more confident building necks.
The body blank is heavy and slightly too small for a telecaster body. I’ve decided to keep it as a one piece body and scale a body down to fit it. This is going to be a “Gibson” scale length guitar, as I’ve never owned one and fancied trying the looser feel. Traditionally these scale length guitars come with double humbuckers, however I already have two twin humbucker guitars, so it’ll be something different.