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Knobs look a bit cramped to me from the pic, but everything else is fantastic. Great build!

tomin8r wrote:Knobs look a bit cramped to me from the pic, but everything else is fantastic. Great build!

I think you are correct. I looked back at the white on white one and it is more spread out.

My next step is to figure out how to make a square hole for the on-on slider switch. This will be used for an in-series and parallel switch for the two pickup combo. The original used it for a mid boost, but I have not looked up how this is done. I figure I will just drill a hole of the correct diameter and then take a small square file to it. A chisel may work as well to square the hole, but I don't know if I have one that small.

I *think* it's a bass cut switch, like a jaguar. I have an epiphone ET270, i'm pretty sure i took photo's of the insides, i'll post them here when i find them.
I say *think* because they were billed as 'bass boost' which wouldn't really work with a passive circuit.
Flick the switch one way, then turn the tone right down, it goes very quiet. I assume the Jag is the same?

Thanks.

Hope you can decipher something from this.

I don't know what to cap value is, I would try the same as a Jaguar though.

wow that is cool, love the shielded wire.

Made some progress. Wired up the pickguard. I cut the square hole for the switch. I did a test on a piece of scrap material. I traced the size of rectangle I needed and then found a drill bit that would be the same diameter. I then drilled two holes and that removed about 80% of the hole. I took a sharp wood chisel and squared and shaped it. Just put it on a block of wood and used hand pressure the make the cuts. Worked very nice since I was only shaving off little bits. I wired the mini DPDT so that in the up position both pickups in series. This will totally override the 3 way toggle switch. Then when you put the switch in the down position, both pickups are in parallel and the 3 way toggle switch will function normally as a pickup selector. Both pots are 250k and I used 0.047 uf orange drop cap. I just looked at what GFS used with their Brighton Rock kit to get the specs on the guts.

I came across a tremolo arm that looked like it was the correct one for this guitar.

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It said the thread pattern was 10/32. So I dropped a dime and picked up a tester bolt. But it did not thread because there was a broken trem arm piece already up in it. I drilled it out, but did not have a small enough extractor on hand. I found a torx driver that slightly too big for the drilled hole and tapped it in with a hammer. Then I was able to unscrew it with a pliers. I took my 10/32 tap and cleaned up the threads. The tester bolt worked perfect and I ordered the part.

cur wrote:

I love the wood grain on this thing.

I'm getting excited to see how this all turns out, really interesting project that I've enjoyed following so far.

Keep up the good work!

This is going to look great in the white you chose.

So here is where I am at now. Except I installed the chrome strap buttons; not in pictures.
Been working on the setup. Had to lower the bridge all the way and also shim the neck. Action is pretty low. I adjusted the truss rod and intonation was pretty much spot on. Slight buzz on 13th fret, but it might go away with a little more tweaking. So small adjustments from hear on. It also needs a new nut. It seems like it has a left handed nut on it. It is a stock plastic nut, but the high e string side of the nut is noticeably higher than the low E. The low E is about right. The high side is awkwardly high from the G to e. So I will bring it into Gurus and have a bone nut made (treat myself).

what a looker. project of the year.

i would've done jag pickups, but the ones you picked are growing on me.

I still can. Actually I have enough pickguard material left to cut another one. Was thinking of doing this and cut it for humbuckers or something else. Then all I would have to do is slack the strings and use a quick connect to swap ground.

Oh, I also used that adhesive copper shielding. The thing was humming pretty good with out it.

Install reverb bar: Check!
Now on the way to get an nut cut by a pro (sounds dirty).

This build is total genuis!
Gonna love seeeing it painted.

dude thank you so much for keeping us all updated on this, i'm digging every picture you post.

hotrodperlmutter wrote:project of the year.

+1 all kinds of awesome.

Thom wrote:

hotrodperlmutter wrote:project of the year.

+1 all kinds of awesome.

agreed with this. it just keeps getting better and better!

Well dropped it off at Guru Guitars. At minimum I am getting a fret level and a new nut cut. Frets are kind of wonky after 40 years. I told them to figure out what need to be done and let me know. The neck is cool. It starts out as a round c-neck at the nut and flattens out to a flat D shape at the butt of the guitar.

It looks like it is going to warm up around here soon enough. So I might get to painting in the near future.

cur wrote:Now on the way to get an nut cut by a pro (sounds dirty).

not as dirty as the fact that an amateur busted your old nut.