First thoughts - It has to look like a Tele (part of the requirements) for an electric sitar to work properly, the bridge tailpiece has to be completely different, so I MUST make the body shape to closely resemble a tele. The body has also got to be hollow for the sympathetic strings to resonate. I'm starting to design this in my head now, but my biggest problem is the SNOW. Two feet minimum (higher in drifts) block access to my unheated barn/workshop. If I can dig my way there, I can get to the scrap pile of old barn boards I'm going to use for the body.

Some windows are completely missing in the unheated workshop. Yeah - it gets quite cold. I hope the bandsaw works.