The scratchy thinline and the pine scratch teles have been resting for a while after their tru-oil coats. They have also had a polish with Maguire’s Ultimate cutting compound and finished with Scratch X. Then rested for a few more days.
Today I have put the neck onto the thinline, added the tuners and the strap buttons.
Placed and screwed down the bridge.
I also shifted the controls onto the pickguard. I had to file the guard around the neck pocket to get a nicer fit.
All seems OK so far.
Next is the soldering!
What I have noticed is that the thinline pickguard will be a bit of a pain to solder/fit. I cannot have the neck pup mounted on the guard before it is soldered to the switch - I should have routed a channel from the neck pup cavity to the control cavity (rather than the drilled channel).
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