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Well, sorry to say, life intervened and unfortunately I haven't put a lick more of work in them to this point. Still on the table though along with two other builds ... One of which is an exquisite (Warmoth-finished) purple quilt/5A birdseye neck Musiclander build. I'll probably finish that one...

I thought about that and used my nephew's Epi SG Special as a guide. It has a bolt-on neck and there is as much body material in my design as there is on the SG. The thickness of the neck heel on the SG is about 5/8", if I remember right. I'll be thinning mine to about 3/4". I believe it will be...

Well, the first one failed - basically screwed it up. But it's all good as I learned a lot ... and I decided to change it up as well. So ... I ordered another routed body blank for "Project Part 2." As far as the design goes, I decided I already have a symmetrical guitar like the design I was...

I won't!

Thanks for the tip!!!

Oh yes it would! You wouldn't happen to know how thick the end of a countered heel is would you? I couldn't find that info on Warmoth's site.

Hi all! I'm working on an alder Warmoth routed body blank and have a question. What would be the minimum neck tongue thickness to retain structural integrity? I was thinking 5/8" or 3/4", but I want to be sure about that. It's a symmetrical body shape with little side support and I'll be...

Ok, that didn't take long. This version is much better where the neck is concerned. Only the outline from between the pickups forward toward the neck was changed. It looks largely the same but has been shortened in length by about an inch. Next up: Finalize the outline (I may make a change or...

Ok, finally got started on the project. Ran into a snag but I'll get it figured out. Attached are images of the routed body blank as I received it, another showing the half tracing, and the full outline on the front and back of the body blank. Those looked pretty good until I put a neck on top...

I will be taking some, yes. At the moment I have only traced the guitar shape and cut the tracing in half on the centerline. I'm only using half the tracing since it's symmetrical, plus it will help me to get it properly positioned to the neck pocket more easily being able to adjust each half...

The body blank has all routes done except the shape - neck pocket, humbuckers, trem, cavity (no controls drilled). The template I'm making will extend beyond the neck pocket and, as you described, will not include anything for the neck pocket but will include the outline of the body shape. In...

Hi everyone. Well, I've decided to try my hand at shaping my own symmetrical body out of a Warmoth routed body blank. The first guitar I ever bought new was a 1981 Vantage VS696. I was about 18-19 then and basically played the frets off it over the years. Finally gave up the ghost around Y2K, my...

Sure, it's not a secret or anything. I create and breadboard them for tweaking first. Once the final is done I'll post it. Each guitar will be slightly different but will use the same PCB. Any differences will be done off-board. In my nephew's case he wants a tone switch offering no tone cut...

Thanks! That's very helpful, and makes sense based on what I'm seeing.

Yes, they will both be active and include piezo preamps. Differential amps for magnetic pickups, active blend controls, and mine will have a 3-way mini switch for three distinct acoustic tones.

Ok, we've gotten a bit of work done now. We glued the battery box hole plug on my nephew's body using Titebond III. I have several styles of wood clamps but didn't have one deep enough for this purpose, so I used a trick I've used before with pretty good success - a piece of plywood and heavy...

My nephew stopped by the house today both to check out the goodies from Warmoth (BIG smile!) and to go over our options for the battery box location. He has decided to plug the hole so we made a plug out of some scrap ash I had and will glue that in tomorrow. Once dry we'll smooth the plug...

Oh yeah, I'll be taking a bunch of photos for sure.

My nephew is planning a solid white or cream. I was going to go natural myself. Once we get together we'll decide what to do.

The bodies and necks arrived today and they look great! One problem though. I was looking at "build" images on the Warmoth site which showed the location of the battery box to be in the lower horn area (on the back, of course). That was wrong though. The battery box rout is directly to the rear...