Made a small start, marked out and cut the headstock & pickguard.
The bits from the US have arrived so just about ready for lift off.
One minor issue arose last night when I was checking the Toneriders, the wrong pickups were in the correctly marked box.
Vintage Plus instead of Hot Classics so I sent Adam an email late last night and he shoved the correct ones in the mail this morning, the VPs are on the way back to PB as well.
Damn I love the customer service that we get from PB, a big thumbs up from me
love the pickguard shape DK really suits the tele shape and hardware !
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
I'm making it as close as is humanly possible within the constraints of the kit and available reasonably priced upgrade parts.
After a lot of searching I found the pickguard template on the net and cut this from the kit item with a fret saw then bevelled with a dremel and then scraped the resulting edge with a Stanley blade to clean it up, the dogs head is another whole world of challenge yet to be confronted
I knew the kit black barrel switch tip was wrong so I went and had another look at the Custom Shop pic and the tip should be a Strat tip in cream so it was back to fleay bay and then I remembered I have a white Strat hardware package looking for purpose.
White tip, white pickguard, perfect
sounds good DK, see if it fits on the switch. When I've upgraded switches the top of the switch blade are usually wider than the PBG ones. You might be lucky and it slips on fine.
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
PB switch to PB switch, installed half an hour ago