As promised a better picture . . . the rain let up for about 15 minutes and the sun peeked through so . . . and YES the 'garden' is a mess, I could have been cleaning that up instead of working on the guitar.
And here it is with the 'other' pick guard . . . . . . the maple faced ply was finished with 2 coats of dark walnut Danish oil (Watco) sanded back and then 'flooded' with natural Danish oil by basically knocking over the can onto it . . . not a procedure I would expect to be repeating but who knows. The pick guard on the guitar is unfinished maple face ply . . .
And then there was Sunday - haven't we been here before - the new tip on the soldering iron made all the difference in getting it all apart and back together.
And yes, the sharp eyed can spot that the neck pickup is upside down in the pick guard, at least according to the SD name printed on it. There is only 1 switch below the tone control now and it switches between one 0.01 uF cap, off, and two 0.01 uF caps in series (0.005 uF), the 0.033 uF was to much to be useful, going from 10 to 7 on the tone control almost completely muted the high E string. This may be more useful, and I have some green (no orange drops at radioshack) polyester film 0.022 uF caps as well, in case I want to go higher
And here it is all put together again. I did find that my jig for routing the pickup holes is off by 1/32 or so and just a 1/16 or so bigger than it should be. I'll make a new one for the final 'real' one. All the screws are also in now.
The pickups play pretty nice with the bridge & neck . . . bridge PU has the strings right over the outer edge of the poles, while they are pretty much on center for the neck PU.
Sorry for the dark picture . . . .
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