Just finished a couple of fretted builds my first and second actually, made a 23 1/2" scale for my grand-daughter, and made a 25 1/2" scale for a mate at work, the small one has a NZ Rimu neck with Puriri fret board, English Oak extensions to head stock, bone nut and Puriri bridge, with a piezzo pick up through a 500k volume pot, tuned to GBG sounds pretty good too.
The bigger one has a mahogany neck with maple fret board English oak extensions on head stock with a Rimu veneer, Lipstick tube pick up and cover (cb gitty), the sound holes are drawer pulls with the backs knocked off them, spent a lot of time on the neck and it come out pretty damned good, I have now created a logo too "Geordies Guitars" and am currently working on the decals, next build will be with some rail bridge hardwood, called "Ironbark", its bloody nice timber and its from an old bridge built around 1902, looking forward to working on this timber....but first some home jobs to catch up on.....bugger!!
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