Les Paul Junior DC Build - Part 3

Les Paul Junior DC Build - Part 3
Its been a little longer than I hoped for part 3 of this video series, work has been kicking my ass with the christmas rush, trying to continue to work on the house renovations and we have a new addition to the family which I will detail on a video to come.
I only seem to get an hour or two a week that I can put towards guitar building at the moment, and even less time to edit, so I only edit when I wake up at 3:30 am with little to no hope of getting back to sleep, so I might as well might that time useful somehow.
The neck, a scarf joint, not the prettiest, but its definitely solid, I may also need to glue on an additional piece for the headstock wing. I'm a little disappointed in how I have had to go about the neck blank in general, I wanted to make it out of one piece, and that being a chunk of the timber I took from the body blank, but unfortunately I just didn't start off with a large enough piece of wood.
Better luck next time, I still have plenty of experimenting to do on this build, and with the new toy I am about to buy it couldn't come at a better time. Hopefully that will make it into part five of this video series.
Alas, the neck blank has a perfectly flat surface, and headstock is mostly to the correct thickness. Just a truss rod, fretboard, final sizing and shaping to go.
The body, its thick, it's got a great weight, its beautiful. It is a lot more satisfying building this second Jr out of a decent material as opposed to the first one I built. I can feel the quality coming through.
Routing of the final body shape is complete, a couple of little nicks from the router bit to tidy up and some rounding over to do to get things to where they need to be. I did consider an arm bevel, and a belly cut, but I think it needs to stay traditional, a chunky slab.
There are somethings yet undecided about this build, the finish. I will openly admit that I am not one with great finishing skills, or patience, or equipment. What I would love to do is a black nitro finish over the whole thing and put it in the freezer to get some big old finish checking with a small tortoise pick guard. But getting Nitro into guernsey seems hard, so no rattle can options available. So do I just get a compressor, a spray gun and go to town?
Im not sure the current state of the shop is really suitable to finishing anything. So there is some thought to go into this dilemma.
Next, pickups. At this point I just have no idea. I have a had a bunch of guitars with BareKnuckles, I like the idea of the Seymour Duncan dogear, but hate the look of the cover, or I may give the Lollar a go. Who knows, but these decisions need to be made soon, as i need the parts to make templates and figure out where things need to go.
Leave a comment if you like with any idea or suggestions,
Many Thanks!

[@nyge23]

Nice stuff man!

[@MosalGuitars]

Thanks dude!

[@gundu3912]

You need to use a sharp bandsaw blade , that one was burning the wood because it is blunt . Get one made up with 6 teeth per inch . Good luck with the build.

[@MosalGuitars]

I’ve already replaced the blade since I made the video, just re-sawed an 8 inch walnut board for another project and was much better. Still getting to grips with setting it up and I definitely want a good selection of blades on hand, but thanks for the tip 👍