This one has been bubbling away in the background of the Franken Lab for a wee bit. It comes with a bit of a Back story.
It was a freebie kit that vh2580 was giving away. His brief was that it had some neck issues, some potential scale length issues and it was missing routs for covers and covers. He sent it down with a ton of kit PUPs and some other bits of electrickery.
I've had to make a new board for it, rout some additional channels for the cavity cover (I made this magnetically attached) and re rout to get a land to secure the locking nut for the output deep panel jack.
Fretty, fretty, SLotty Slotty
New fretboard in place, slotted and radiused, Scale length issue sorted.
Cover rout, with carved Ply cover (I Might just make paint that black)
First coat of DT Clear going on the spalt
Magnetically attached cover for that no screw look.
I'm now just playing around with the old board to work out if I can attempt some inlay.
This one is getting some Entwistle X3s in it, I may yet Direct mount them, but at present it will just be a pair of pup rings going on it. '
The lever switch has been deleted in favour of a DPDT ON ON ON mini switch as there was never room enough to mount the normal lever switch any how, and after my cover rout, there is definitely no room now.
The slots has been filled with a rose wood insert, crafted from the offcut from the locking nut position at the top of the fret board.
So we are into the DT and hopefully we should be getting somewhere with this one soon.
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