Rough sawn Honduran mahogany blank.
Rough cut neck heel.
Head stock layout.
Rough sawn blanks are given a “datum”, planed, glued and clamped.
Rough cut neck ready for profiling and sanding.
Pickup route template using 9mm MDF.
Body template using scroll saw.
Mock-up and measurements for body chambers on 12mm MDF.
Truss rod routing, heel end.
Planed “AA” grade flamed maple top wood.
Body after planing and profiling.
Ebony fingerboard after planing to thickness.
“AA” grade flamed maple neck blank after planing.
“AA” grade flamed maple neck blank after truss rod routing and t-planing.
Slab ebony fret board is “feathered” into headstock bevel.
Planing “datum” edge into rough sawn body blank.
Rough cut neck ready for profiling and sanding.
Body cavity routing template after squaring/detailing.
Rough sawn “AA” grade flamed maple.
Rough sawn “AA” grade flamed maple.
“AA” grade book matched flamed maple top wood.
Planed “AA” flamed maple top wood.
Rough cut neck ready for profiling and sanding.
Rough sawn Honduran mahogany body blanks.
Glued blank after thickness planing.
Truss rod route/cavity.
“AA” grade flamed maple blank after T-planing.
Ebony fingerboard after planing to thickness.
Fret positions marked using scale caliper.
Body after planing and profiling.
Body after planing and profiling.
Body after planing and profiling.
Rough cut headstock transition.
Fret slots being cut into ebony board.
Ebony finger board after planing to thickness with pocket marker.
Transferring neck/head stock detail to neck blank.
This stencil for the body template is engineers trace spray glued to 12mm MDF.
Rough sawn “AA” grade ebony finger board blank.
Rough cut headstock ready for profiling and sanding.
Nut slot being cut into ebony board.
Ebony finger boar after planing to thickness.
Rough sawn body blanks are given a “datum”, planned, glued and clamped.
Rough cut headstock ready for profiling and sanding.
Truss rod routing, nut end.
rough-cut neck heel.
Planed, book matched “AA” flamed maple top wood.
This guitar build is, thus far, called the Synchrocaster.
Anyone who knows me knows i love odd-ball, quirky, left field guitars from the late 50’s and 60’s so for this build I’ve taken influence from some of my favourite guitars from this period and used some of their unique features to create a true frankenstein’s guitar! There will be bits of Telecaster, Gretsch Synchromatic, Bigsby Standard, Jazzmaster, Danelectro, Teisco, Harmony and more….i like a lot of different guitars but there is, obviously, a running theme here! Watch this space as the build starts to come together!
TFM
The Fret Mechanic 
Awesome build. I’ve been playing for a while and wasn’t to get into the more technical aspects! Ive alwease wanted to build a 72 parts caster. Awesome job can’t wait to see then end result.
Many thanks! Building things is fun….building guitars is…well…funner!
Stay tuned as this baby comes together!
TFM