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Not the best picture, but

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3 way toggle switch hole

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Getting there

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The corresponding birdseye maple top, approximately 1/4 inch thick, 15 inches wide, and 2 feet long, which resulted from 6 individual pieces of roughly 3/8 x 3 x 1/4 inches and 2 feet long. A bit of jointing, not bookmatched.

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Well some shaping, lightening, and routing cavities for pickup wires and toggle switch control. Excuse the messy table. Unfortunately, my kitchen table.

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The next one: 3 piece genuine mahogany ( from Stewart-McDonald), 1 /4 inch thick Birdseye maple cap (from Bell Forest), cutaway ( Les Paulish shape), bottom, side, top, 25 1/2 scale neck (Mighty Mite, from Stewart McDonald) two humbuckers (from Seymour Duncan).

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Going back

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Almost done, and done, not the best sound

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Getting there

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Some honey amber stain for the top, overall and closeup

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Now a little grain filler for the swamp ash

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A better shot of the beginning

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Coming along

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Going back 45 years or so, a bit more hair

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A new one: swamp ash, birdseye maple, in progress

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Serial number 1

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My patent, written by myself, one piece of wood, mahogany, eliminating the neck to body joint