The creative bug has been nibbling me steadily since I finished the mili-tele, so I wanted to get going with another build. Here are the specs on the new one--
-tele style
-chambered alder body with a walnut cap
-creme binding (still mulling it over whether or not to do binding)
-maple neck/fretboard
-rear routed
-P90's with standard tele wiring
-brass half bridge
-black or nickel tuners and input jack (I'm open to suggestions there)
This one will be several months in the making for a couple of reasons:
first reason- money. I'll have to buy my supplies/hardware a little at a time.
second reason - the place where I plan to buy my walnut isn't having a sale in January or February, so I'll have to wait until Spring. It won't be too bad though, because I'll use that time to buy a few things here and there and make progress in other areas.
Since I had some maple on hand, I started on the neck/fretboard today. I'll be using a double action TR, so my fretboard will be separate from the neck, but I'm using maple for both.
I needed to get my fretboard piece down to the correct thickness, so after a few passes on the jointer, I ran it through my version of a thickness sander. I removed the blade from an old plane and clamped it to my BOSS. Then I would just move it closer, a little at a time, to get to the correct dimension.
Here's my shop help giving me a hand-
Here I am getting ready to rough-shape the neck-
Finally, a few shots of the mostly-finished neck. I got lucky, and there is some curl to this maple, so I think it'll make a fine looking neck.
![[headinwall]](./images/smilies/headbangwalluf8.gif "Mad")
. My 11 year old is a science buff, so I'm hoping to get him interested in electronics... winding pickups maybe 
. I still have to track down an acceptable piece of walnut for the top cap, binding, tuners, fret wire, GFS P90's, pots, caps, switch, knobs, input jack, bridge, saddles... Pretty much the only thing I had for this build was the body and neck wood. 
