It was them time to polish the body. I used wet 1500, then 2000, then the micro-mesh pads 4000, 6000, 8000 and then 12000.
Finally I buffed it with Meguiars Ultimate Compound and Meguiars Scratch X2.0 to achieve a nice shiny finish.
For the electronics, I got from Adam a pearloid white scratchplate, and Entwistle pickups: 2 x XS62N for neck and middle, and 1x Entwistle Nemesis AFG Bridge humbucker. I wanted very hot pickups to make up for the plywood lack of tone. This was going to be rock guitar, not blues!
As it was all experimental I got a special switch, a Schaller MegaSwitch E.
It's pretty cool as it allows combining individual coils from the HB with the SC check it out:
This gives 4x humbucking positions out of 5.
Lining up the bridge and neck:
And scratchplate ready:
I then put it all together and tested it.
The 2x positions where a SC is combined with one of the coils from the HB (#2 and #3) both sounded very thin... not what I was expecting.
So I did some investigation and realised that I must have inversed the HB polarity which was putting the ups out of phase. The sound I was getting sounded like what people described as out of phase sound, thin without bottoms.
The Entwistlle website was showing a colour coding different from the pup box and I must have picked the wrong one.
Once I swapped them all worked perfect!
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