Thank you! I can die happy now! I'm such a sucker for a sparkly blue precision with a maple board. That (or a rick) will be my next purchase.
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Ill take the neck, if you take it off! PLEASE!

here are a couple... ignore the Wenge in the middle
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Here's this ol' chestnut, and a couple others.
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James, do you have trouble going from 5 to 7 on a daily/hourly basis?
Is that birdseye maple on the fretless one?
I traced the original pickguard onto the record, got out my stencil cutter (basically a soldering iron with a thinner tip) and went to town. When I was done cutting it out I cleaned up the edges with a dremel. Cutting out the pickup cavity and neck pocket was a major PITA.
I killed two Tchaikovsky records in the process figuring out the best way to do it :|

Here's this ol' chestnut, and a couple others.
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