Some projects!

Painting? Routing? Set-up tips? Or just straight-up making a guitar from scratch? Post here, and post pics!

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Some projects!

Post by brandon. »

So I had to do some routing work for a customer. He had an old kent bass that was beat to fuck and was left handed.
He'd like to repaint the front and make it right handed, which would make it look like a mosrite.
Here's a couple pictures, one halfway routed, another fully routed:

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excuse the quality.

Anyways, he's got some crazy ideas for it and I'm having a great time working on it so far.
This same awesome customer also brought me a box of old guitar electronics. It was full of old pots, pickups
some knobs, 2-way switches and a DOD Grunge pedal.
I've had an epi LP special body and neck doing nothing, so I decided to throw some old pickups in and maybe
install a bunch of switches and junk. Here's the first phase of my plan:

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I had to route the pickup cavities right at the edges to get them to fit.

The box had a bunch of on/off slider switches, the same kind that would be used on a jazzmaster rhythm circuit... but they appear to be older and slightly bigger.
How would I got about wiring some of these as on/off switches for the pickups?
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Post by hotrodperlmutter »

surely one side is on, one is off, and you just do it from the pickup to one side (whatever you choose?) and then straight to vol/tone. like jag?

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