...Well the day after tomorrow. And it's not finished. Assembled, but not finished.
There's a short on the bridge pickup wiring so that's silent, probably a braided neck pickup wiring touching something. I just knew I should have put heat shrink on them just after I'd soldered it all up. And I've wired the selector switch back-to-front (I decided to rotate the switch 180° at the last minute before soldering and forgot to flip the contact connections). So that will come out tomorrow and be fixed.
The bridge pickup wire is also slightly too short to be run round the outside of the F-hole, So I'll probably lengthen that so it can (as well as cover it in heatshrink).
As I feared, the bridge is far too high at its lowest setting, so I'll be waiting for an ABR style one to arrive on probably Tuesday. The nut's a mile high as well at the moment but that's easy to take down once I've got the new, hopefully lower, bridge. At least the strings run nicely down the neck, even if the neck angle could have done with being a bit greater
I also totally forgot about the knobs, so I've just fitted some out of the knob box and will be getting either some slightly darker ones or possibly black. I have lots of both in my spares box, but in 18-spline versions, not the 24-spline I need.
Plus the nickel dog-ear covers should hopefully arrive on Tuesday and then they'll need to be sprayed black, so it's likely to be Thursday at the earliest before it's all finally re-assembled.
But at least I think it looks nice.
Last edited by Simon Barden; 19-10-2020 at 02:05 AM.
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