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Permalink Reply by Tom T on May 27, 2019 at 12:29pm

Nice selection of bits and pieces.

1. Mahogany is a great wood to work with. It smells amazingly nice when sawed.

2. Don't worry too much about the string height with the hard tail. It can be adjusted up or down a fair amount. It that is not enough, you could build a thin platform to raise things.

3. The mag pickup will make nice sounds. And don't worry too much about using a traditional through neck with it. A normal stepped neck will give enough clearance for the pickup. I would save the non-through neck design for a later build.

Go for it...........

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on May 27, 2019 at 4:12pm

Hi Sean, all sounds good to me. Draw it out first to see how things will line up, saves a lot of back tracking later. That's what I do on a new build. Taff

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Permalink Reply by Sean Murphy on May 28, 2019 at 6:04am

One step ahead of you - I'm actually building it out in a 3D modeling program that I've been wanting to learn anyway! Figure I can potentially catch some problems before I run into them for real.

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on May 28, 2019 at 9:13am

I like your style.

Taff

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Permalink Reply by François on May 28, 2019 at 9:32am

Why not? When you pile together new techniques, it can just be more fun. This is not rocket science we're talking about here, it's building CBG's! If it fails a bit, you can always fix it.

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