It all began with a plan (Modified Tele)

Here was the plan:

Single Humbucker.

One volume control.

Through the body stringing.

Not your typical wood, domestic not expensive.

I began with a standard body Template which I created from a .PDF




The wood is Osage Orange and is it heavy and hard!

 

And I found that the body was a whopping 8lbs !
and then came the epiphany, CUT OUT MORE WOOD !

The result was:



and I added a Ash Veneer top.

 

I then cut out a big rear control cavity.



Cut the Cover recess:

 

Added the Humbucker Cavity:

 

And oh yea, I added BINDING ! The wood is so hard it doesn't tear out it rips shards!

 

Cut the Pickup route:

 

Continuing on....

First Tung oil application.

 

Thank you kind sir !

 

Thank you, Hmmm, perhaps Wolfcaster could do as a name. Better than the Ironcaster that I have called it in the past. Due to the heft of the Osage Orange.

 

Funny no one has asked the $64,000.00 question. What does it weigh now?

 

No, not on the AG forum, where is that?

Thanks btw, I like the small horn as well.

 

answer to the $64,000.00 question is....
































6lbs !

 

Not a slab it's pancaked, hardest freakin' stuff I have ever worked with. Oak's got nothing on this stuff. It chips off in shards like flint does.