Well now everything took longer than expected (shipping times + no money for some of the extra bits that I needed) but I've finally got this thing all together and totally functional!!
As you can see, old white pickguard is gone and a pearl one has taken its place. Had to cut it from a sheet but that ended up being a surprisingly quick job.
Also I popped pickup rings on top of the pickguard. The reason for that (as pointless as it usually would be) is that my neck pickup was not getting held up anywhere near high enough. The pickup springs were all compressed all the way down before, so I just couldn't raise the pickup any higher. The rings are not bolted down in any way right now, I'm giving them a test run as they are, if they end up wobbly I'll probably just pop a bit of super glue in between to keep them down, but early in it looks like it should be ok.
Finally, I dropped all the silly switching and just went super simple. 1V, 1T and 3-way. Also because I was making my own pickguard it's much less cluttered now, which I really appreciate.
Haven't had toooo much of a chance to test the pickups out much because the AC adapter for my POD has died, and my amp also seems to be broken. But I checked it out briefly in Rocksmith and they seemed to handle distortion fairly nicely, didn't get much clean testing in though (but having heard samples online, I have no worries at all about the cleans). I was amused that Rocksmith, when doing calibrations, said something like "Please make sure your volume is all the way up" even though I was already turned all the way up because the pickups are pretty low output.
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