Dom's Rambles

The next project to be undertaken at Dom Towers is the building of a custom guitar. I've always fancied a Firebird shaped axe but as there isn't a current production model with a tremolo system I've decided to build my own. I've commissioned these people - who, in my dealings with so far, couldn't have been any more helpful and professional - to make the body (rear control rout, to accommodate a single bridge humbucker pickup and Floyd Rose tremolo) which is expected to take around five to six weeks - apparently they're pretty snowed under at the moment.

While we're waiting for that it gives me time to assemble the rest of the bits and pieces. So far I've got the tremolo and locking nut, the machine heads and the neck sorted out. I went for a neck with a 'banana' headstock rather than a pointy, none-more-metal one as I think that shape follows the curved lines of a Firebird shape much more pleasingly.

I'm still making my mind up about what pickup to eventually fit.

Later.