I collected this last night.
Someone here may recognise it, or parts of it.
It was offered to me (when I was looking for a neck or two suitable for Gibson-style bodies) as a neck with a guitar mis-attached, with a suggestion that I could cut the neck out of the body and dump the body.
This shot gives an idea of why ...
I've not measured it all properly, but because the neck was set at the wrong angle, I'd need a rather tall bridge. OK, a very tall bridge.
I was fully aware of the problem, but I thought I'd cunningly fix it by putting a tapered cap on the guitar, thin at the neck end, rising to quite thick around the bridge point, and then dropping away again towards the edges of the body.
Problem 1, the body is already rounded over, so I'd need to remove that amount of thickness to create a sharp edge before fixing the cap.
Problem 2, there are no cabling holes or cavities drilled, and doing that with the neck already in place is obviously a bit of a pita.
So, I could try cutting the neck out and trashing the (1-pce Mahog) body, but that seems a bit wasteful.
Current thinking is some sort of centre-piece cap. which might look a bit odd, but would allow me to do the top routing for wiring and then hide it under the cap.
But that's not too elegant either, so I thought I'd throw it out there to the wise makers & modders for other suggestions.
There's no rush - I'm unlikely to get time to do anything about it this year ...
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However, that might take as much work (or more? I remember someone, maybe ash at oil city, struggling to find a suitable bridge piece for a guitar project) as a new cap.
A new cap would also cover the one piece body... Which seems a shame.
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Hmm.
Cap it is then? I'd be very interested in how you get on, and how you go about doing it all