Since I did not bring my camera over to the shop, I will just show what the current state of the guitar's body is. Here are a couple pictures of the front and back of the body with all the cavities routed out and the edges rounded over. The first picture is the front (with all the electronics cavities and neck pocket routed out) and the second is the back. You can see on both pictures where I have drawn the contour lines to be carved out at a later date.
Next, I decided to see how some of the parts that I have bought will look and fit. I think it looks pretty good, but I am open to any suggestions and comments. Remember, this guitar is going to be painted satin black and is going to have all black hardware to give it a "goth" look. The skull knobs are from some skeleton garland that I bought from Micheal's for $4 for a set of eight. I just cut the back of the head flat and drilled for the pot's shaft. I got the idea for the knobs by looking on E-Bay and seeing some skull knobs for sale on a couple guitar parts places. I am also going to use other parts of the skeletons for some of my inlays. I hope that it is not too contradictary or sacreligious to have all the skeleton parts when I am trying to build guitars with a Christian theme, but I will still try to encorporate my cross and fish that will be part of all of my guitars. The neck that is shown on the last picture is from a guitar that was given to me by my Sunday School teachers and was already gutted, so I am using it to get measurements from and check the fit of things. The neck I am building will have an ebony fretboard (the back of the neck is going to be natural maple).
Well, I still need to finish designing the headstock and get a new bearing before I can really do too much more. Thanks for visiting.
