I'm way too poor to buy all the guitars I want so I'm gonna make a few and see how it goes. So far I have a these two in the works:

1. Vox Phantom with two lipstick pickups
2. Something jazzmaster/jaguar-ish with p90s

I've got some poplar for the bodies and a nice squier strat neck for the phantom. I can't decide on a color for the phantom. White would be cool. Some kind of reverse sunburst would be great. My painting skills are gonna be limited though I'm sure. Price will be a factor too. I don't know if nitrocellulose varies by color.

white with black pickup would look amazing, i put a down payment on a 1962/63 uk vox phantom, pick it up next weekend i cant wait, it is black with a white pickguard and has the original Hank Marvin Tremolo :)

 

Get the book- Make Your Own Electric Guitar by Melvyn Hiscock...I got a copy used on Amazon for next to nothing.

Excellent! That's exactly what I needed! I'll post some pictures when I get some work done on it. I've made a full scale body pattern and I'm hoping to cut it out in the next few days. Color-wise I'm leaning towards white with a black pickguard. We'll see...

Hey Jamie, this site might provide the answers to your painting questions: http://reranch.com/ i would probably go for white or maybe black or another dark colour with the headstock painted to match.