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weed_killer wrote:Do you need a guard for this? If you want I can give you one I have lying around.

is it cream?
i accidentally bought a white guard.



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i bought a plunge router yesterday
and the guitar is currently at my folks but i'll be down there for a couple days next week so i hope to get it finished!
(as well as work on my Mig project, unless i just make a new body..)

Shit, this is a cool project! I don't know how I missed it.

Great to see the pickups getting some use. I'm sure you noticed that those CP JM pickups are a bit taller than regular ones, but they still fit under regular covers.

yeah i noticed that, not a big deal, just need to route to 10mm instead of 8mm (i think..) after i fill in the current bridge route.

serfx wrote:

weed_killer wrote:Do you need a guard for this? If you want I can give you one I have lying around.

is it cream?
i accidentally bought a white guard.

no, it's black. Do you want it or are you set on the cream?

cream matches the pickups.. but black could be gnarly..
hit me with a PM

so i got this almost finished
still needs to be wired up and intonation done.. might need a little bit of truss rod adjustment as well..
but its pretty close, no buzz. route the bridge pickup a little lower then i guess i wanted, but we shall see how that pans out after it is wired up.


anyways, shitty iPhone PICTURES








wiring and demoz to follow

Love it!

Very cool, dude! That Jazzmaster pickup looks fuckin' tits in there. Glad to see one has found a semi-permanent home.

yeah i'm pretty stoked on it.

it might still get a pick guard, i got that black one, and a white one..

but they cover the neck volume pot..

i'm also not stoked on the speed knobs.. but i think i have some bronco knobs kicking around.

wow, that looks pretty badass dude.

serfx wrote:it might still get a pick guard, i got that black one, and a white one..

but they cover the neck volume pot..

yeah I know it's so annoying. that's why I was thinking of doing a maruder pickguard.



then you would be free to route for whatever controls you like.

That guitar kicks ass. I think Mage has the right idea with the Marauder style pickguard.

i was thinking of just filling the one volume hole, forget the 3 way toggle and just have independent volume for each pup.

i'm not 100% though.. i'll wire it up when i get back in this afternoon.

yeah, that could work. or maybe you could do a switch and a stacked pot w/ vol + tone.

looks great, jim-bo.

well my toggle need to be replaced.. as it fell apart while jamming..
and i'm getting a grounding issue off the bridge pickup..
though i totally forgot to run a ground wire to the bridge/trem
so i'll probably tackle that tomorrow.

and i might just run two volumes, no tone, jack, no toggle...

i'm exploring the options.
however i can say that it played really nice, and i loved the tone out of both pickups when playing, but the neck pup is WAY hotter then the bridge.
so once i get these issues solved i'll get an demo done.

Shit, really? That must be a hell of a humbucker. If I remember correctly, I forgot to label the JM pickups -- but I believe the neck was the one had the larger metal plate on the bottom.

yeah its like 23K or something..
but it is also a lot closer to the strings..

no real worries though.

holy shit. 23k? AND YOU PUT IT IN THE NECK?!

YOU SO CRAAAAZY!

it came from the neck on my CP jag

lord knows what the bridge is like on that thing. i've never measured it.

I love the way this thing looks, it's totally badass.