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Will be tagging along with this and looking forward to seeing it progress.
I'm less sure it's Obeche, it's a lot less yellow now it is planed and I can see the grain better ... possibly Meranti??
This is it with a large idigbo body blank for reference
Grain
Marked up for cutting
And sliced into a variety of body blanks. Everything from full thickness LP customs to oversized blanks for bigger shapes.
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It's currently at 45mm. I'm going to take it down a bit thinner and chamber it to get this to the 4 1/2-5lb range before proceeding
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I used to always glue up wood then cut to shape, but these days I prefer to cut the laminates first with extra tabs for gluing. It's a little bit less wasteful.
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Somehow I managed to move the center line on my design and made some incorrect templates, the positions marked on the body above are incorrect for everything except plate shape are incorrect. Thankfully I caught this before routing anything and made a new template for the top plate
The fretboard is now bound, and a metal plate has been started for the top
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Once the neck is made and a neck pocket has been routed I will also round off the treble side of the cavity and taper the thickness of the horn, although i'm not sure I will go as far as slotting through binding in recreation of the Zemaitis quirks.
I also found a Zemaitis style bridge I made last time I was playing with this idea. I may try and improve it a bit, but trying it out won't rule out switching to a normal tune-o-matic at a later date. The humbuckers have also been wound
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Z style dragon, shown with rope borders
Burton Cooper, with hops border and filigree
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Maybe it needs a Bass triangle inlay on the neck to complete the theme, although I should probably save that for a bass version.
But I am worried it makes it all a bit niche, more so than usual and a Dragon would be an easier sell.
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Other ideas are an American traditional tattoo style pirate ship, or a Mucha style ladies head with lilly filigree. The first is an alternate take on some of the Z themselves, the second would be another attempt at something more personal to me.
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