FrankenWashie's Third, The Cliche Black LP

[Simon Barden]

Getting one with a large enough chuck is the problem. If the recommended hole size is 10mm, I'd probably use a 9mm drill to start with and then widen the rear side of the hole with a reamer.

[FrankenWashie]

Yeah, I was considering a brace and bit set, they usually do up to about 1/2 inch or slightly over, though angling might be a concern. Worst case scenario, I could always attach it to my drill-a-Ma-jig.
Handy bit of gear to have in the tool stash in any case.

[FrankenWashie]

On the curved based rings, you may still have to sand the bottoms down in order to get the same radius curve as the top of the guitar. The ones I've got for my ES-3 have a 1mm gap between ring and body at the moment, as the top is less curved than a Les Paul's. I could have gone for flat ones and sanded the curve in, but they are often not as tall as the curved bottom rings, so the neck one could have been too small to sand the right curve in without making it too thin and weak in the middle. But they are cheap enough to simply get some more if I make a mistake.

I found that laying some coarse grit on the neck pup position and finessing the neck pup ring across that gave me the curve I needed for that one, but i had to use a profile gauge, masking tape, a sharpie marker and a dremel type tool with a cutting disc to get the Bridge one to co-operate and conform to the top profile. It worked pretty well, though as you'd remarked Simon both routs are on the upper tolerances in size, the pup rings fit the PUPs well, bit only just cover the routs.

[Simon Barden]

This is where you now decide to make your own slightly-oversized wooden pickup rings..

[FrankenWashie]

This is where you now decide to make your own slightly-oversized wooden pickup rings..

No need, they cover the holes, and there is sufficient corner in each rout to host the mounting screws. There's other work that need doing before i really need to worry about that any how. Some more sanding is on the horizon.

[FrankenWashie]

waiting for sanding, unfortunately

[FrankenWashie]

Just an idea I am playing with. The silver standard adjuster screws are going to get replaced probably with Black low head allen screws sourced from work.

[wazkelly]

Hi Frankie, liking the veiled mesh look.

If you replace the screws you will still have shiny slugs and reckon it looks good enough with the mesh.

Cheers, Waz

[FrankenWashie]

Hi Frankie, liking the veiled mesh look.

If you replace the screws you will still have shiny slugs and reckon it looks good enough with the mesh.

Cheers, Waz

I had a plan for that as well Waz, the mrs has a heap of really thin backing fabric in black that I can appropriate some scraps from. This'll go under the mesh to do the full black out.

[wazkelly]

Hope it doesn't smother the signal.

You could maybe use black nail polish to paint them instead.