My Guitar Project, Installment #1-"The Beginnings"

Hi, everyone! (all three of you) I haven't posted in a little while and I finally got this guitar finished, so I guess I'll post about it. I decided to post it in two or three installments over the next few days, mainly because of time constraints, and the amount of time required to upload pictures using dial-up. Well' here goes!

Installment number one-"The Beginnings"

I originally bought this guitar as a decoration probably five or six years ago because I thought it looked really neat. It's basically a Strat shaped body without rounded edges or the arm contour on the top. The color scheme is the coolest thing about it. It's black with 5-layer red and black binding around the body, single-layer red binding on the fingerboard, and red dot inlays on the fingerboard.

It also has this cool, pointy Jackson-style headstock that has to be a trademark violation.

I got it just as you see it here- The body, neck, and tremolo claw. No electronics, pickups, tuners, or even strap buttons.

I originally hung it on the wall of my bedroom. After I got married, it occupied a corner of a closet for a couple of years. I thought about selling it on Ebay, and I may have even listed it (I can't remember), but it obviously never left. Eventually, something over a year ago, I was cleaning or something, and picked it up, and noticed that it had a decent neck on it. Then, I thought about it that I had collected a couple of sets of pickups over the course of time. Then, I decided, that since a nice set of pickups was probably the most expensive thing I would need to make a playable guitar out of it, maybe I would try it. (I have wanted to build a guitar from a kit or from pieces for some time)

So, I began the process of collecting the necessary parts to put it together.

Stay tuned for the next installment-"The Process Involved".