project #3 - double doom

[drsoda]

This one started out as an experiment in using aluminium diamond plate as a pickguard, and making a telecaster (metalcaster, as I called it), I got started on that and kind of just put it aside to start the 335 build (project #2). It just lacked something. A friend of mine bought over his bass for repair one day and I had a play, not really having much experience with bass guitars prior to this - and thought that one day I must add a bass guitar to my reportoire of builds and add to my slowly growing collection. After he collected his bass, that night i stumbled upon Fender's newly opened support forum where they are now posting all of their guitar plans and schematics, grabbed a telecaster plan and a precision bass plan and had them open on screen at the same time in photoshop, looking at the designs.

Bam! I joined both guitars on screen, played in photoshop, and came up with the double doom concept design..



..and where I am up to at the moment with it:

the headstock taking shape


routing the body - damn straight i'm going semi-hollow on this, it would be pretty heavy other wise


the diamond plate cut for the pickguard


Body is (again) Tassie Oak, fingerboards of massanuba, string through (except for the bass), one piece body/neck(s) and stylised headstock instead of them being separate, electrics will be EMG 81/85 in the tele side, and I've got a lace sensor fender jazz pickup and a set of split single coil precision bass pickups for the bass side. There will be a gibbo style 3 way in the top horn switching between the tele being on, both on, or bass on, 2 -3 way switches for the pickup selections for both sides, and 2 volumes/2 tones to control whatever pickups from either side when selected. I'm going to do the 18v mod for the EMG's as well. No additional thrown in quirks (yet), though I am contemplating a fuzz something in this somehow, would be cool to throw in a electro harmonix, we'll see how it goes.

Again, i'll keep you posted here if you like, or follow my site for the details.

btw - i got some inspiration from this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFYzW4axzjA