Carving the body

I wanted to do some modifications to the Tele body, on the one hand to allow for some more relaxed playing and on the other as I preferred such a look over the plain "saw a guitar out of a plank" look that Telecasters typically have.

There's a great YouTube video from Crimson Custom Guitars, showing how they hand-carve a guitar, using an angle grinder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVbzpLEh0To

I decided that I would give it a try in the same way and carved away....
By the way: I did draw the shapes onto the body with pencil before I started, unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of that step.
For the carving of the front, you can see the line on the body in the top left background of this picture (underneath the steel ruler) - I had a similar drawing for the shape I wanted on the backside of the body.

Again, this wasn't too dificult, I really like the result and even kept my two brown "tips" on the upper edge!
Also, while grinding I liked how the wood turned out without the primer that was already on the body when I had initially gotten it!

I still like the idea of creating something like a driftwood finish, not too smooth, and the sanding definitively added to the idea.