First Guitar. TL1 with bigsby

Rather a neat vintage look there.

The wiring stuff can be a pain in the neck because its intrinsically rather random in layout, but fussy with it. If its not an area you're especially comfortable with, post *lots* of photos from different angles and folks here will see what they can do. Different angles is useful because something is always hiding something else.
If you can locate a mate who is into vintage electrics, 50s radios and the like that would be great too. Guitar electrics are kinda 1950s!

Just take the control plate off and see if you then get any sound. Also don't forget to turn the guitar and amp volumes up (done that before and spent a few minutes looking for a fault).

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With that headstock it looks very muck like a Vox/Fender hybrid, with a touch of Gretsch from the fret markers.

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That's exactly what I thought!
Whether by design or happy accident, the headstock shape works perfectly with those fret markers!

thanks everyone!!

guitar is humming like fuck and intonation is out... back to it... yikes this thing won't let me go

Really bad humming normally means that you've got the signal and ground connections crossed on the output jack.

I somehow did the same thing last time I wired a socket.