Leaderboard

It's one of three builds that are planned. The second one is a "Sustain Machine" which is going to include using a Fernandes Sustainer from my Kleinberger copy, a laminated through body mahogany and maple neck and probably a Kahler 2300 series bridge for effortless divebombing harmonics. The third one is more along the lines of an MSG V2.0 with laminated mahogany/maple neck, another Wilkinson VS100C bridge and PRS Mira pickups (medium gain, much like Pearly Gates) maybe with a single coil if I can find one that matches. I know Martin Booth still makes the MSG for discerning clients. But his skills are in a different league to mine and he's resistant to the idea of three pickup guitars so I'd like to think I'm not treading on his toes here. Now I've put together a drawing specifically for the body fabricators and, in doing so, have been double checking and measuring (where possible) all the critical dimensions. It turns out that the Wilkinson bridge DXF block that I was using is out by a few millimetres in critical places, so I really need to nail the distance between the posts and the edge of the bridge rout. The pickup blocks I'd been using were fractions of a mm out as well which impacts on tolerances. It kind of goes to show that third party CAD blocks can't be trusted in most shapes and forms. It also means I'm going to have to partly disassemble my strat, which has a VS100C already installed, in order to measure the clearances. I also borrowed body dimensions from a Les Paul drawing to begin with but the body depth was too thick (56mm vs 44mm for MSG/43mm for strat) and the neck angle was wrong. Putting it right has taken more work than if I'd taken measurements off the MSG. Serves me right for taking short cuts, I guess.

OK, I’m going to be following this. Bring it on. I really like that body shape.