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 

OK

Out with the router

Lots of room in there

Ok,lets get them cavities routed

Time to start with some sealer to get that grain filled

This really makes the colors pop

 Just a update.

Because of the bug situation around here,any kind

of finishing has ground to a hault

I finally managed to get some more sealer on

The grain is starting to fill

Because this is going to have double humbuckers

I want to go with a hardtail bridge but kind of keep

it vintage tele style.I think I found the answer