"Thread by thread, stitching it together"

Ever since I saw a white BC. Rich Warlock guitar hanging in a music store and thought, "Hey, Rarity's cuitie mark would fit right in that spot." I had it in my mind to make a Rarity themed Warlock guitar. Now, it would have been much cheaper had I just bought that Warlock off the rack and stuck a cuitiemark sticker on the damn thing. But nooooo. I had to go and try and put one together from parts.

Most of the parts used for this guitar were from GuitarFetish.com. The body was from their "Factory Buyout clearance" section. It had a lot of dents and dings that had to be filled and sanded. But it was also pretty cheap. I had also bought a Factory buyout neck to go with it. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that the routing for the bridge and neck pocket were for a shorter scale length then the neck I bought. So I ended up shaping and gluing in a piece of wood to fill the neck pocket to make the length closer to correct. Of course, after I went through all the trouble, I discovered that the cheap neck I bought had a severe back bow. Meaning that the strings sat on the fretboard in the middle of the neck and no adjustment on the truss rod seemed to make a difference. I could have bought a 24.75 scale neck and just bolted it in. But now that I had glued in the block into the neck pocket, I bought another, more expensive, 25.5 scale neck. This one was fancier anyway, as befitting Rarity. The tuning pegs didn't transfer to the new neck so I had to by new tuners also. The humbucker pickups, the gold pickup rings, bridge, and output jack plate were all from Guitar Fetish.

The next set of photos show the finished guitar here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/25485404/