Step 1: disassemble the neck (it'll just get in the way) and paint the cavities with conductive black paint ... this will cut down on interference AND give the wood some protection.
Well that came out upside down ... anyway this was what it looked like at the start .... I haven't tested the XGP conductive paint yet and while the brush supplied looks like it will be sufficient a 'real' brush probably did a somewhat better job.
And here is the final product .... even without taping the edges I managed to avoid major bo-boos ....
Step 2: draw a/the outline for the pickguard (and the cavities for positioning the switches) on a sheet of acrylic (Optix from Lowes in this case)
Step 3: cut it out ... a lucky find was a $10 vacuum driven rotary tool with a spiral cutter and some 80 grit sanders ... so I need to get some 120 grit sanding drums and I'll be in reasonable shape ... for the initial pickguard in testing it worked fine with my shopvac when feeding slowely ...
The initial Electrics will consist of:
- 2 x 3 pole 4 pos rotary switches
- 1 x Oak Grigsby 2 pole 4 pos lever switch
- 3 x 2 pole 2 pos slide switches - or toggles - probably - may need 1 x 2 pole 3 pos ... or maybe 2 x 1 pole 3 pos
- 2 x 500k B pots
- 1 x 500k A pot- 2 SD P Rails pickups
- assorted caps & resistors for tone & treble bypass
The rotaries will be the pickup selectors for the P Rails, the lever the neck / bridge pickup selector, pots for 2 tones & volume. One of the slides will be a phase switch, one will switch a treble bypass on the volume and the final one will be a cap selection switch for the tone ... these last two are primarily for testing and may not survive in the final configuration ...
Anyway I'll post the schematic once I've worked it out.
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