Finished (sort of...) another guitar project:
I am having a company called Warmoth make me a really nice custom neck that will become the permanent mate to this body. It will probably take them a few months to complete it, so in the meantime I bought two much cheaper "replacement" necks, one of which is the scalloped neck on the body now in that photo and the other is a more standard affair made in Canada.
I got that second neck in the mail today but unfortunately it was cracked very badly all the way thru the headstock:
I fixed it with some Tite-Bond and a bit of clamping, which will stay locked down overnight to really solidify the bond. Tite-Bonded wood actually makes a break-point stronger than the original woodgrain in the end, so it's not a bad fix:
It will be fine. It sucks to have to repair a new item but w/e. I am sanding it down anyway, and when the weather gets warmer I will paint all of these headstocks to match the pink white red and black "camo" of the body, it will kind of look like this one on the bottom (the top model is the original ESP "Kamikaze" that my project guitar is based on):
I think I prefer the Geisha finish over the original. The pastel pinks and whites are more my style. I owned an LTD Kamikaze back in the day and I'd rather just have a single pickup instrument in the end, over the setup that guitar has (H/S). Don't get me wrong I like having the option for a neck pickup but there is just something special and simple about single pickup guitars that appeals to me. Not to mention the "selector switch" on the original was a push-pull potentiometer which I never really cared for. I am pretty happy with how this turned out, and will be refined in the future :]
Anyway. That makes
three projects finished in under 35 days!
