I had sort of stopped building because I was realizing that I had too many guitars, and the 'hobby' was interfering with leading a productive work life. I was keeping an eye on Ebay for good deals, however. Then I managed to find an 1987 AVRI '62 neck for $87, that came with a parts lot of pickups, and an early floyd rose bridge (I love it when people list stuff in the wrong Ebay category):

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0385848882

I sold everything else off, and when all was said and done, the neck was free and I had positive $77 to spend on the rest of the guitar.

Added a Japanese '62 reissue body, and loaded pickguard with vintage noiseless (will be adding the Clapton boost later), and voila! a $133 '62 reissue.

All that I am waiting for is the chrome bridge to arrive. I used the gold bridge that I was saving for my Mary Kaye project just to have something on there. Didn't want to deal with stringing it and setting intonation until the bridge came in.

It looks great! Nice work and love those tuners!

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Hello Submaniac,

Well done indeed. Sounds like it was fun
getting it all together.

Cheers.