Finished first build!

[baldy5000]

Well thanks to all of you on this forum, I did it!

Started with a neck and body from Uncle Willie on Ebay. I have my opinions, would be interested in hearing Cosmic's, he bought from him too. Anyway here are some pics if i can get this to work:

Body started with some stripped screwholes and cracked piece where neck meets body. I must say uncle willie was very helpful and threw me some free tuners and pickups (I didnt use them):

[baldy5000]

Sorry I didn't take more pics. The neck is maple with rosewood neck. I still need to have some frets leveled, crowned, dressed. But the neck was straight and fit the body with a little redrilling. Heres what I used:

Wilkinson EZ-Lock tuners from Guitar Fetish
GFS Pickups:
Lil Puncher XL in the bridge
Alnicy fatboy with oversize pole pieces in neck
(Very happy with these)

GFS Modern yele bridge with Stainless seel saddles
Pots StewMac (One of the StewMAcs didnt work, had to use one that I bought from ebay)
Black Control Plate and knobs from GF
Copper shielding tape from stewmac
New fender bone nut from local luthier who set it up for me when I didnt like the buzzing-he made it worse, too low of action for me, now I know I need a fretjob, I am a heavy player and HATE ANY fretbuzz. Got it pretty good but the 13th fret is too high.

Ernie Ball sinkys (10's)

White pickguard came with body (I will replace with a homemade copper guard).

Again thanks to all of you on this forum, you helped me immensely, even if I was doing more reading than posting.

Thanks! I love this forum!

[Colt W. Knight]

I would like to see this copper guard.