Monday, May 20, 2019

FINISHED ... again?? ... ... ... well kinda

Ok, so it LOOKS finished . . . but it's not 'wired up' yet.

First the pickup controls need a place . . . cutting a blank to size, the finished blank (it's going to be just a rectangular slab for now, nice and easy) and enlarging the 1/8" pilot holes to 1/4" to fit the switches. I did this by hand as the plastic cut easily with the step bit.


And the finished product and a mockup with the switches installed

Next up ... measuring the screw holes for the pickup rings, and installing the ground for the bridge.

 

And then

Reinstalling the bridge . . . and I just learned that Schaller 475 bridges come with 2 DIFFERENT intonation screw and spring lengths . . . did NOT know that before, and did not pay attention so were do they go . . . in the end I put the longies on E, A, G and the shorties on e, B, D.
And here it is installed . . . with some of the details hat all the cutouts were for, the switches are a variation of the coils switching system for the pRails on my JM no applied to 2 different pickups, when wired up they will do Neck - both forward, Bridge - both back, Series - together, Parallel - apart. The little nubbin in the middle is a phase switch. The posts of the volume and tone knobs will be cut flush with the 'roller' knob and blackened with some black nail polish . . . and then I still need a plate for the back of the cavity . . .

The final version will have brass pickup rings - and possibly the witch 'holder', which may also revert to a 5 way super switch -, although I don't know yet if they will be polished up of brushed. But I want this in a playable condition as soon as possible as I have to build a shed.





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