/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Here's the whole thing. As I said before, right now I'm set on staining it a dark transparent purple with black grain filler to make the wood still "pop" after it's stained. If I go with the purple, I'm going to paint the headstock and pickups/hardware a bone/ivory color.
Option B is to just stain the whole guitar in a dark cherry(like you normally would with mahogany) and then mill rosewood tuner keys, knobs, truss rod cover and cover plate.

Right now I've got locking grovers, and a set of Blackouts to throw in it, and I'm planning on keeping it tuned to C standard/drop Bb since I can't justify buying a 7 string because I'm saving up for an 8 string, and the lowest I'm comfortable tuning a guitar permanently is drop C.