The weather here in S. Indiana has prevented me from continuing the finish work on my other 2 builds. So, what do you do when you can't work on the projects you have going? You start another project!
Specs:
Flame maple bookmatched top
Alder back
Black back with blackburst top
Faux binding
Flame maple neck/maple fretboard. Maybe blackburst on the neck/FB, too.
Standard Tele style bridge and pup config...flavors to be determined
Single volume and tone, phase switch...backloaded.
And so it begins...
I had two 2 piece alder body blanks that I glued up last summer and set aside. They shrank up enough that neither one was wide enough for a Telel body. So, I cut the better half off of one and glued it up to the other blank.
While the body was setting up, I layed out the top and neck woods. The billet on the left will be resawn for the top. The board on the right will yield a neck blank and 4 fretboards.
Nice flame all the way thru both pieces.
Set up to resaw on my heavily modified Shopsmith band saw. The factory cut height was around 6.00". By adding a flat aluminum table and filing away some casting material I was able to open it up to 6.75"...perfect for guitar tops. Here, I'm trimming the billet to 6.75" wide for resawing.
And an hour later I have my top, neck blank and 4 beautiful fretboard blanks. I'll set the fretboards aside for future projects.