Body Top<\/strong>: Birdseye maple: 5-7mm thick (not enough for a carve once squared up)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAs this will be my first glued top guitar, I didn’t want to spend a huge amount of money on the “deep” top I would normally need. PRS I’m told use a 28.5mm back piece with a 20.5mm maple cap – that isn’t cheap! I couldn’t find a maple fretboard that would look as special as the neck wood, so I’ve gone for the contrast of a really nice piece of rosewood. If I cut my own fret slots, I’d maybe try the MusicMan style of slicing the fretboard off the neck, but that’s brave! At this thickness of maple cap (~5mm), I doubt the maple will have any impact on the sound.<\/p>\n
So out with the carve, in with the rosewood fretboard. Body shape is going to be the same outline, but 10mm bigger all around. I will start the neck first, with my normal spoke end trussrod. This time I’m going to use Schaller Locking M6, as I just didn’t get on the Nylon Schaller’s I used on the last build (hence upping the body size to keep balance).<\/p>\n
New Concept (no idea what colour I’m going now) – using the actual wood. Not sure how a birdseye top will look after it dyed:
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With a quick Photoshop mockup (aside: I really need to figure out a better way of “dying” wood in Photoshop)
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