My Latest Thing - Completed

The last part arrived, the body. Warmoth supplied a swamp ash body in fiesta red, no tremolo and standard strat routing. The weight was a bit over 4 lbs a little heavier than I originally wanted. I went through a test fit of all the parts and there were no problems.


One thing out of the norm were the ferrules for the tuners and the body. Ferrules are collars that in the neck holds the tuner shaft in place and the in the body holds the string's ball end.
In the past I've pressed them into place. In the package of string ferrules were directions involving the use of a soldering iron to heat the ferrule and melting the finish enough to allow the ferrule to be pushed into the hole easily. Once the finish cools the ferrule is securely in place.

The neck was attached the pickguard and pickups assembly was mounted. The bridge was mounted with 3 screws.
I needed to cut slots in the neck nut so that the strings may pass through. I used gauged saws and gauged files to cut and file the nut slots. This was the most difficult and most risk of wrecking the guitar I would not recommend doing this unless you're skilled.

Finally was the tuning and intonation i.e. "setup". The first vid invlove intonation using the 12th fret and the 12the fret harmonic. This is the method I used it's a more work but more accurate.

This method of intonation works fine and is good for a quick check.

The finished project:
Cost run down:
Neck $500.00
Body $300.00
Electronics $300.00
Hardward $100.00
Total $1200.00

Justification, it's exactly what I wanted. Philip Kubick picked out a neck and sent it to me, 1 of the last 8 he'll make. Torres Engineering supplied hand wound pick ups that sound amazing. I found it challenging and I think it came out great.