Telecaster scratch build - start to finish

This is my first electric guitar build. I chose a Telecaster because I heard they were a good choice for a first one because of how basic it is. There are a lot of videos I see on YouTube where the body is made from scratch, but the neck is premade from some third party. Anyone out there reading this and thinking about getting into guitar building, I greatly encourage you to jump in and build the neck too. It is highly rewarding and I found that it is the one part of building a guitar that, in my opinion, seems to bridge the gap between building electric guitars and building acoustic guitars. The process is almost the same except for the acoustic neck joint being a little more complex. Building the electric body seems to me to be just basic woodworking, at least for a non-carved guitar such as a the kind that I built. Body: 2-piece swamp ash Neck: maple Fretboard: maple Pickups, bridge, control plate: lookup alnicov telecaster pickups on Amazon. They sell a kit with all these together. The given brand name for the product is actually “Alnicov” so I’m guessing the pickups may be Alnico V? I’m still a noob, so I don’t know. The control plate comes prewired, but you’ll have to solder the pickups to it as well as the input jack. Input jack: Axegrinderz electrosocket jack plate (I got it from Amazon) Tuners: Wilkinson vintage Strings: Ernie Ball super slinky (9’s) Frets: StewMac medium jumbo (I think. I can’t remember exactly what I bought) Nut: bone Pickguard: I made mine from scratch out of some matte black pickguard material I got from Amazon. I used a StewMac premade pickguard to get the basic shape for the routing template I tweaked it a bit to better match up to my bridge, control plate and neck pocket. #telecaster #electricguitarbuild #scratchbuild #lutherie