pretty sure!
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Super exciting!
Are you going to go with a natural wood finish? A dye? Burst? I assume with the fancy quilted top that youāre not painting it. Curious about your plan to tie in the gold hardware.
Iām ready to make a bit of sawdust on my builds tomorrow (planing the slabs).
I am first going to highlight the open pore figured grain with black dye, sand it back, and use red dye to color the rest. The headstock cover will match. The back will be black. The stain I am using is water based, although I am still going to use denatured alcohol instead. It is not a solid stain, so the grain will show through. I ran across this short video that demonstrates the process, but on figured maple.
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I generally donāt care for bright colored dyes on wood, but I do really like when folks use a black dye to highlight the grain. Thatās definitely sharp.
Iād thought about doing so for my build, but I think the fact that Iām using ambrosia maple means thatās unnecessary and that it might take away a bit from the existing black streaking (that follows the grain already) from the fungus.
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I donāt know if your wife and you like or dislike headless guitars or basses?
Shortly before I bought the Ibanez Mikro, I bought a really cheap bass in even 65cm scale length, but even worse, they had a .100 low E string installed. Could only find a .130 replacement string in the internet which I suspect a bit heavy on the other sideā¦
But the bass was really nice and pretty well made that I decided to keep it and transform it to headless. Then, there are metal parts to attach the string where the headstock would be and the stringās ball ends go into the tuners (where the bridge is) (but there are also headless systems where the ball ends go to the headstock).
So - this way, I could use also the normal bass strings of other scale lengths and just shorten them and not take care about any thinner parts of the strings.
Iām usually a sucker for the look of the wood, without color, certainly, on my acoustics. Jenās āspirit animalā if you will, is phoenix rising from the ashes. She even had a company with the name. My plan is to do a phoenix inlay on the neck.
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I was actually looking at doing a headless bass, but I didnāt think it a good idea for my first electric build. 
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I considered doing a headless design for my guitar but had the same thought about not choosing that for my first build.
I paid for someone else to build the necks and headless was not one of the options. Meaning if I choose to use that design in a build, Iāll also be building the neck.
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