Took a detour because only after I had the pickguard installed and strung the guitar up to begin setup, did I realize that I really should have tested the electronics first....
My travails with the 4-way rotary switch that changes the Humbucking/single-coil states are documented elsewhere. That was last night and this morning's adventure.
Earlier this week I realized that I had a problem with the Tele 3-way blade switch. On the neck setting the bridge pickup worked. On the bridge setting the neck pickup worked. On the middle setting *nothing* worked. Clearly this was the fiendish work of Dyslexia Man, my alter ego.
I had wired the switch backward and crosswise. My brain (not kidding about the dyslexia) may be wired similarly. As a result incorrect did not look that different than correct wiring to me. This why I meticulously color code and chart out my wiring diagrams. Once I had figured out and charted how the switch should actually look, it did not take long to put it in. In the process I also noticed that I had put in the cheap Tele switch copy I got as a "tester" rather than the Oak Grigsby that I intended to put in...so swapped that out as well as re-wired the switch.
As long as I was doing all this, I also took off the neck and fixed a little paint issue. There was just enough space where the neck and body come together on the "south" side of the neck that you could see where the paint ended on the neck rout, so I added a little color there.
I'll put the neck back on in a few hours and...hopefully...begin the set up.
While the neck and strings were on and I was getting something from the pickups I managed to play the guitar's first cord. It won't be playable without some work yet, but it was still cool to hear it's voice for the first time.
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