Funkenstein – gummibearheads

So, when I last talked I was planning to make a new neck for my pink telecaster. Now I have a better idea. Make a new body to go with the neck.

I think this will be a Tele style body as well. I want to hollow some of the body out like a thinline Tele. I’ll prolly make the body from ash.

I want to go straight up the middle with 2 single coil pickups like a traditional Tele. This is something I kinda need since all my guitars have high output humbuckers. Having a guitar that’s super good at clean stuff will be great.

Sounds kinda boring, right? Here is where it gets fun lol

I really liked the way my friend’s Purple guitar turned out (metallic purple with purple glitter on top) so I wanna do that, except green.

The neck will be like I described before. A strat style inverted headstock with an ebony fingerboard. I got some locking staggered Hipshot tuners for it. Prolly paint the headstock to match the body.

I want to put some sort of LED inside the body that lights it up from the inside.

Toggle switch in the top like a Les Paul or Tele deluxe.

Kill switch cause why not.

Ripped straight from the “can’t leave well enough alone” file…

I am super happy with how the neck on Sex Panther feels and plays and the quality of the build!, But…

I’m not really happy with the finish I put on the neck of Sex Panther. I also want a bigger headstock to display the beautiful (large) logo I made.

I have planned all along to strip the finish off and re-do it. I have also considered chopping up the headstock and gluing on some extra wood to make a bigger headstock.

I really want one of those big goofy 1970s strat headstocks. Like the bottom one in this photo.

Big goofy headstocks have a lot in common with me. I am big and goofy too.

I also have wanted to build my own neck. You can see where this is heading.

Why not make a new neck!?! And if I’m gonna make a new neck, might as well be goofier too and make the headstock inverted!

My beautiful ~~wife~~ design consultant and I decided to go with;

Maple neck, satin finish
Inverted big goofy strat style headstock. Painted black of course. Finished glossy
Ebony fretboard, natural finish
Dual action truss rod in the heel with a wheel on it
I’ll re-use the tuners

Off to StewMac! Here is my haul

I downloaded some neck and headstock designs from the interwebs and printed them full size. After some creativity with scissors and tape we can see the neck shape.