irishstu
really experienced
Hi all,
I picked up this neck a while back that I bought for no other reason than I just thought it was kinda cool. It's an old Kasuga bolt-on Les Paul neck.
I also at one time picked up an abandoned SG body project. It's just had the outline roughly cut out, and apart from a few small holes that could easily be covered up, I'm free to work on that as I like. Here it is:
I'd really like to get the two items together. However I realise that an SG body and a bolt-on neck are not generally a good match, since an SG neck would generally have a long tenon. This is about the position it would end up at on this one:
That said, I'm just doing this as a fun project. I like rescuing abandoned stuff and making something playable out of it. I also have a couple of pretty good humbuckers and all the other hardware required to get this playable.
I'm just wondering if anyone has ever seen a bolt-on neck SG that didn't look like shit. The thing that bothers me most is how far back the stop tail would end up being. I was considering using a wraparound bridge as a way of disguising how far into the body the neck really was.
I think ending up with something like this would be OK (but with a wraparound instead of a separate bridge/tailpiece):
Is this a waste of time? Any other thoughts/opinions/advice you can give me?
Thanks,
Stu
I picked up this neck a while back that I bought for no other reason than I just thought it was kinda cool. It's an old Kasuga bolt-on Les Paul neck.
I also at one time picked up an abandoned SG body project. It's just had the outline roughly cut out, and apart from a few small holes that could easily be covered up, I'm free to work on that as I like. Here it is:
I'd really like to get the two items together. However I realise that an SG body and a bolt-on neck are not generally a good match, since an SG neck would generally have a long tenon. This is about the position it would end up at on this one:
That said, I'm just doing this as a fun project. I like rescuing abandoned stuff and making something playable out of it. I also have a couple of pretty good humbuckers and all the other hardware required to get this playable.
I'm just wondering if anyone has ever seen a bolt-on neck SG that didn't look like shit. The thing that bothers me most is how far back the stop tail would end up being. I was considering using a wraparound bridge as a way of disguising how far into the body the neck really was.
I think ending up with something like this would be OK (but with a wraparound instead of a separate bridge/tailpiece):
Is this a waste of time? Any other thoughts/opinions/advice you can give me?
Thanks,
Stu
