After a few punishing weeks at work, I'm back to building. I have today off and the whole weekend to play.
I've been wanting to expand my builds and I have moved from Teles to the Wolfgang and now to a PRS.

Specs:

3 piece mahogany back
2 piece flame maple top with faux binding
25.5" scale
Mahogany neck with rosewood fretboard
Pearl dot inlays and flame maple headstock veneer
Locking roller TOM bridge
String thru body with ferrules
Scatter wound custom humbuckers
Volume, tone, 3 way switch...might add phase switching.

And so it begins.

I've had this piece of 20 year old mahogany sitting in the studio for months now. It's just over 2.50" thick. I also have a small piece that I'll use for a test neck.



I resawed the mahogany for the body and neck...taking a 1" thick piece for the neck with a body thickness of a touch over 1.50" before planing.



I cut the body pieces just to the right length for each part of the body...the plank wasn't long enough to cut 3 equal lengths...plus, I wanted a piece left over for the neck heel.



Here are the neck materials...I think I can get 4 necks out of this board if I'm careful.



The body blank is glued up, centered and traced out. Ready for profiling.