Firecaster/Telebird build

Hi all,



It's been a bit quiet here lately so I thought I'd liven things up with a progress thread for my latest build :U



Bit of an odd one, it's sort of a hybrid of a telecaster and a firebird, with a firebird body and a tele style neck.

Timbers:

• Body: Qld maple


• Neck: Wenge


• Fingerboard: Macassar ebony


• Headstock faceplates: flame maple

Hardware will be standard chrome, with the bridge being the tele style with humbucker mounting. The pickups will be a humbucker in the bridge and P90 in the neck, standard firebird vol/tone for each pickup.



Pics!



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The body has been mostly roughed out, bit of contouring still to do but that shouldn't take too long now. Neck blank is also scarf jointed and planed, ready to start work. The wenge is a beautiful looking timber, but I am definitely not keen on how it blunts my plane blades :~



Also came up with an interesting pickguard design that incorporates the style of both guitars too:



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This will likely be a fairly slow process due to my aversion to power tools (or lack of power tools really :q), but I hope to make an update at least once a week on this.



Thanks for looking