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New templates and new neck specs. This will be a stunner when the customer finishes it.

I'm pretty sure this is my guitar. Kyle, it is sweet looking!! It's got the Fender/Frankie neck profile with the Ellsworth headstock, Fender/Frankie body contour BUT made out of Northern Ash. What more can you ask for! Kyle is finishing it in white, satin nitro on the neck (stainless steel frets btw). I've got a Callaham bridge for it and either a HighOrder Assymetric wind A5 8.7K pickup or a Bareknuckle VHII, I can't decide.

This thing is going to scream!

You need to try my WarEd or the Brown Bomb in this Mark. The WarEd is as close to the Fender pup as you can get IMO, and the Brown Bomb is more PAF-ish.
I took out all the stops on this one and one of my pups would work nicely I think and really set it off.

Divebomb the look of your work just floors me every time I see it!
I guess the big and tall line is not happening lol.

You never know TONGA. I might make something in a plus-size soon. I just made to replacement necks for this guy. He's about 6'8" and pushing 300. We actually discussed making something slightly larger for him so stay tuned.

Kyle,
What neck specs do you usually go with on your Frankie's? (scale, radius, etc...)

About .802" at the 1st and .835" at 12. the Radius on the Fender I have here is a 10. I've heard that it was compound, but this one is not. The Profile is a "C" and it's just slightly (very slightly) assymetrical. It's a pretty thin neck which was suprising becasue the other's I seen were a bit thicker it seemed. I'm thinking this one is closer to the original neck that was on the Black/White version.

You never know TONGA. I might make something in a plus-size soon. I just made to replacement necks for this guy. He's about 6'8" and pushing 300. We actually discussed making something slightly larger for him so stay tuned.

Divebomb that would be sweet! You work on the big and tall line and I will work on my piggy bank!
I have been showing some of your pictures to my friends and they are all just blown away! But they all want to know what this and that costs?
Do you have a price list for necks and bodies? You know like basic prices + X-amount for B-eye or flam top. Even if it’s just an in the ball park kind of thing, it would make planning a guitar a lot easier.
Also what kind of tone and sustain do you get out of poplar? My buddy fast Ed is thinking hard about that SS you have listed on your site, like he is pricing pups and hardware!

Bodies are generally $180-200 depending. Capped bodies get up around $325-375.
Necks go from $200-285. Serious Birdseye is on the higher end of that. Nicely Flamed Maple is up there too. Regular Hard Maple is around $200.

Not real sure about the sustain properties on Poplar. I know it's used often and lot's of people like it. I make very few Poplar bodies.

Thanks for the info Divebomb. Didn’t really help though, now I can’t stop coming up new builds I want!

TONGA wrote:Thanks for the info Divebomb. Didn’t really help though, now I can’t stop coming up new builds I want!

Well, that all in how you look at it TONGA... It helps me.