Some of you will have seen one of the first guitars that I built for myself
Nicknamed "Frankie" as it has been a Frankenstein of different bits and pieces over the years
It's the white one in the picture below.
I built the body in 1988 from a seriously heavy bit of Brazillian mahogany.
I needed a neck and at the time grabbed an ESP concord neck - similar to a Charvel in some ways.
Anyway - this combination has been with me ever since
The body had a repaint in about 1999 and I promised that I would make a neck for her eventually:
The ESP neck is super to be fair - the tightest quartersawn maple, with a nice rosewood board- scalloped from the 12th fret onwards, but it was always a bit narrow - like a regular strat width (42mm at the nut to 55.55mm at the last fret) and I prefer aslightly wider neck (43mm+ at the nut going to 57mm at the last fret).
So I have been working on this for a while - I copied my old '86 Charvel neck which has always been a favourite of mine and is quite similar to Johnny Mac's new Lion guitar also.
Decided to match the body logos with some inlays:
Next up is to scallop the neck from the 14th fret to the 22nd - I have always enjoyed having scalloped frets at the top end on this axe and thought I would continue the tradition.
For frets I intend to use Dunlop 6000 - big frets.
