Well, I'm waiting for the corners to come back from being nickel plated, but the time is here for me to think about my next build.  Decisions, decisions, decisions! Several weeks ago I bought a really beautiful quartersawn oak board with really straight grain and not a hint of a knot anywhere.  There is enough in that board to make 5 or 6 necks.  Today I bought a  really nice piece of jatoba very nearly on the quarter.  Only the ends of the board give it away, Really nice color, hard as a rock, straight and clear and should make some great looking fretboards, faceplates, bridges, laminated necks and along with the maple I have and various other woods salvaged from pianos being either discarded, uncrated or getting new soundboards, wood is not a problem I have.  

Very soon I'm going to build my first 6 string electric with a couple of twists. #1 I am going to want to build my own box so I am going to learn how to learn how to do that with either finger joints or dovetails. 

#2 and this is really the payoff for wasting your time to read my little blog.  Working in a piano rebuild shop I get access to soundboards  that have graced the insides of a Steinway & Sons or Mason Hamlin grand piano for up to a hundred years and I have gotten myself a little stash of very old spruce soundboard material that will see a new life in a cigar box style guitar.