Prairie Custom Guitars

Here we go again.Another build.

This one has some special wood involved.

All the way from New Guinea.This is some nice stuff

Unfortunately it was only a rough cut 6" wide

Not wide enough to just joint 2 pieces to make a body.

I also found that the board had a small bend and arc to it

After I finally got it planed flat and jointed I was still a hair narrow, even with an extra piece jointed in the center.

You can see here on the edges at the hips,it's just a bit narrow

Not much I can do but shape it after I route it

Here is a close-up of the great color of the wood

Off to the router

After a few passes and some shaping on the sander,as Lily would say

Tada !!

 Pretty cool looking stuff

You can see the right hip is a tad smaller than the left

Looks OK though

Man this is cool looking wood

The plan is a rear route it,with a hard tail bridge and dual Humbuckers

Not going to be a lot of TWANG in this tele

Got a bit more accomplished tonight

Not a lot more I can do until we decide on pickups,etc

I did the ferrule holes

Then I decided to get to work on the rear route

I measured everything out and drilled the holes where the pots will

come through the top.No turning back now