First off, I had to drill new bridge holes. So I lined up the bridge in the rectangular outline of the old bridge and popped some screws in there:
The neck was completely hole-less, so I had to drill the mounting screw holes as well as the tuner holes. I lined up all the tuners and marked them with a screw driver dent, and then made pilot holes and put them all together. I'd say it was 95% successful, there are two tuners that are a bit squeezed together:
(Mid assembly)
I hadn't decided on a wiring scheme yet or pickup choice other than bridge at this point. I wired the bridge pickup to a volume and to an output jack. I like to have long leads when I work on my own guitars so I can easily take the pickguards off and move them around without hassle.
I don't have the time to route this badboy at this point, so I decided to use the only hole that had room.
Here's a somewhat shitty picture of my two customs, but the nat one in it's Stage 1 state.
Notice the gaping neck hole.
Without taking pictures, I decided to see if a regular Tele neck pickup would fit in there without too much trouble.
It did. I usually use my guitars with tone and volume on ten, so I don't mind this single switch idea.
(I used the always classy electrical tape to hide the wood grain.)
I don't know how you guys feel about fretboards like this, but I kinda like it.
