The neck is hard maple and african mahogany, the back is african mahogany. The top, fretboard and headstock veneer are ambrosia maple.
I used a Gotoh Tune-o-matic, Guyker locking tuners, and Epiphone Probuckers. The switch and pots are generic.
Mistakes:
- I forgot to route the truss rod access before gluing the wings on for the headstock. I made a routing jig very similar to Unqendor Guitars' jig, and it wouldnt fit over the wings. Ended up just drilling it. It turned out okay.
- My neck pocket was a little loose for a good glue up, so I cut some maple veneer off some off-cuts and glued it in on the sides of the neck pocket.
- The neck doesn't have a heel because my measurements were off when I roughed it out. I like how it turned out but it wasnt the original plan.
- I forgot to drill for wiring between the pickups before gluing the neck in, and accidentally missed when trying to go in at an angle and drilled all the way through the back. (Forgot to get a picture.)
-The bridge is a bit too close to the nut, but I was able to intonate by flipping the saddles.
- My control cavity routing is messy because my router height adjustment was loose, lowered more than I wanted, and came off the template a little.
-some of my holes for ferrules and markers aren't lined up. Totally just because I was getting excited tonfinish it at that point.
-I went through 4 fretboard blanks I cut from my one large peice of ambrosia that I got all of my parts from due to simple mistakes and one incident with the bandsaw.
I went through WAY more wood than I would have liked, starting with S2S boards of mahogany, maple, and ambrosia maple. Milling down to size is definitely a skill I need to improve on.
It plays surprisingly well for my first time carving a neck, though it is still a bit chunky.