Winter project 2020

 Too early for a winter project?  well this year has already lasted about 32 months so I don't care!

I was considering building a valve amp from a kit, but then I remembered that I'd been given this little beast.........

so.... its a mini electric guitar.  with a built in amplifier and speaker.

and, I've just realised, it's the same colour as my last winter project started off!  and, like last year, 

THIS WILL CHANGE!!!!

OK, so the scale length is 17", which means its the same as capo7 on my strat.

good points?

well, there are no serious dings

the bridge, strap buttons, jack and jack plate, neck plate and knob are all reusable.

bad points.

the colour, clearly, but that was always going to be going.

the tuners are really nasty open cog things.

the neck is really chunky for such a small instrument and there is no truss rod.

and the frets are in the wrong places!

yes, after measuring carefully, and making a template for 17" scale, the red dots show where the frets SHOULD be

ho hum!

so the plan.

remove the frets, plane down the fingerboard and either cut new fret slots in the front of the neck, or go further, route a truss rod slot, add a truss rod and the top it with a rosewood or ebony fingerboard.

fill that speaker cavity, re-rout for a humbucker, use the switch hole as a coil split and the single knob can be concentric volume an tone.

and paint it a more sensible colour.

no hurry, so....... here we go!