First and LAST tin I'll ever make, internals are Fender single style and lots of yellow wire, volume on top edge, jack is on tail edge, neck is oak.What's driving me nuts is the V-Star is so heavily embossed I'm struggling with the bridge as I don't really want to kernacker it (the embossing not the bridge) - I've pretty much kernackered it as it is, the thing is like paper!!Open to suggestions on what to do to sort the bridge issue.
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Cheers gents, I've been staring at this thing for so long I just plain 'ol missed the obvious. If I bring the tuners down around two inches (give or take) and glue a fretboard on, the fretboard will sit just above the embossing (can tweak underneath if needs be) it'd be roughly where the front guard (fender to Americans) starts. With that slight mod, I can make a smaller bridge that'll sit nearer the tail end of the box. It's actually a birthday gift for my Son-In-Law, he can't play but even he if doesn't play it, it'll get hung in his man cave. Oh and James I have problems carving the Sunday roast let alone carving a rider :-)
My hot rod tin can 6 string got the neck mounted above the centreline to miss all the pretty stuff. You may still be able to do something across your sound holes.
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Cheers gents, I've been staring at this thing for so long I just plain 'ol missed the obvious. If I bring the tuners down around two inches (give or take) and glue a fretboard on, the fretboard will sit just above the embossing (can tweak underneath if needs be) it'd be roughly where the front guard (fender to Americans) starts.
With that slight mod, I can make a smaller bridge that'll sit nearer the tail end of the box. It's actually a birthday gift for my Son-In-Law, he can't play but even he if doesn't play it, it'll get hung in his man cave. Oh and James I have problems carving the Sunday roast let alone carving a rider :-)
Looks good you could carve a rider leaning over handle bars in Black and use Black Saddle would blend right in
Can you fiddle with the scale length so that the tailpiece becomes the bridge?
My hot rod tin can 6 string got the neck mounted above the centreline to miss all the pretty stuff. You may still be able to do something across your sound holes.