Looks great Bill..I’d leave as you’ve got it..

Nearly finished.....

I am waiting for some screws to fix pickup surrounds, truss rod cover and rear cover plates.  Also need to look at pickup height and tweak intonation.

Pickups from Mr Fabulous in Australia, and a Dusenberg Les Trem II.

@frocesterbill WOW Bill!! I agree with Deej about the truss rod cover - looks ACE...Outstanding work - how is the action?

Action is pretty good - set to your ‘Standard’ action settings - the neck was flat after fretting and the frets levelled nice and easy.  The guitar plays really well and is sounding good.

I followed through the electric course steps applying them to this build so thanks again Mark. All of the hard work that went in to put the course together has given builders access to the processes that can be used to build any solid guitar.  I guess that some bits I have watched ten or more times.  

Thanks to Darren for the high tech glue and also thanks to the rest of the GM members for the great support!

I am now going to watch the acoustic build for the first time...

Will try to take some better pics later might wait until it is dark so that there is no light through the window.....

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I need to drill to position the tune-a-magic bridge and tail piece.

From the design course - mark scale line then go a further 3mm on bass side - join those and mark for holes?

How much room from the bridge to tail piece?

That's pretty much how I do it Bill - checking the alignment of the neck first to make sure that the bridge will be in the right position side-to-side as well as scale length.

I'm not sure that there is a rule for the bridge to tailpiece distance - just what looks right and gives you the string break angle over the bridge.

Some more pics - still missing pickup ring screws and cover plates....

The trem works well for gentle wobbles - a (cheap) roller bridge and ‘Nut Sauce’ means that it stays in tune.

Some neat electro I work there Bill...

Cheers Deej - had to pull the cables for pickups and switch though a routed channel in the wing - I had tried it a few times before applying the finish but all went well.  I have cut the covers but was waiting for screws to arrive.

Will have to adjust the shape of the back of the neck slightly around the nut - all felt fine until i had been playing it for a while - will have to shave a bit off and re-do the finish.

I was having issues with tuning stability - occasionally after waggling the trem strings would have drifted.....

I couldn’t find the right screws for the truss rod cove for a while....

I adjusted the neck shape around the nut and the first three frets.

A new set of strings were added and I still had the tuning issues - also the Dusenberg trem was a bit in the way so I took it off and installed a normal tailpiece and now tuning is fine.....

Hi Bill

Thats a neat build, I've spotted the unusual tuners, they look clever.

A quick picture - will get a better one in daylight tomorrow...

The tuners are from Riot - Firebirds originally had Banjo type tuners - Steinberger produced some for a while.  These work well - there are pics earlier in the thread....

See https://riot-works.com

So I just came across this thread and have just read it from the start. I gotta say - This is an amazing and beautiful guitar Bill.

Will we ever get to hear it?

I am very happy with it - still working on playing it well enough though!

Whoa!! Wicked!

Is that a Dussenberg trem? Looks ace!

Yes - it was a Dusenberg - I was having tuning issues so normal tailpiece installed at present.

The Dusenberg is really well made - the action is good but the guitar wouldn't stay in tune with it on - the bridge is a cheap one but the roller saddles seemed to work smoothly but just sometimes after a waggle one or more strings would have changed - tried Nut Sauce on the Graphtech nut and very carefully oiled the roller saddles.  Any ideas folks - any decent bridges to use with trems? 

Better pics - no covers on cavities still - just need another polish...