TD's Scratchy Thinline

[Simon Barden]

With the neck in place, it looks like a very thin thinline body.

Have you got enough depth for pots and selector switches etc?

[Trevor Davies]

Hi Simon,
the selector switch was also my original concern, but it fits with a few mm spare. All good.

[Simon Barden]

Brilliant! That is good news.

I've just upgraded my Squire Mini Strat with new pickups, pots, through-body bridge plus locking tuners, and and fitted an Oak Grigsby 5-way to it, only to find that it was too tall for the thinner body (might be a smaller thinner body but it weighs more than my regular Strat body!) so had to revert back to the shorter original 5-way switch (which is Korean rather than Chinese so isn't too bad a switch).

So I have switch depth on the brain at the moment!

[McCreed]

Sounds like you're in a similar place as me re: building, Simon. I'm choosing to tinker and mod some previous builds rather than adding to the herd!

[Simon Barden]

Well, it's been winter here, so no chance to work outside or do spraying. With a house move proposed for sometime after the middle of next year, I doubt if I'll start any new builds this year as I don't have room for more guitars until I do. I've got a couple of projects that I need to get back to; the refinish of the old Peavey 5-string and a Tele for a mate with piezo saddle pickups.

I've been doing a lot of fettling work on a friend's guitars to keep me busy, but there's only one left to do now.

[bassdude]

You can't dig half a hole...

A hole is a hole.

No-one can dig a hole. You can dig the dirt or whatever material you need to replace with a hole. You just dig, and then you see a hole. Actually, no-one can see a hole since it's a void. Avoid holes, they're dangerous. Where was I? Where am I?!

Peter

[Trevor Davies]

I have finally got some more done on my thinline.

I have stained it with FW cedar. Then gave it 2 coats of tru-oil.

I then tried to do a faux binding by routing an edge with a 1/4 inch round over bit, but I did not like it (the ply was not white enough). So I have now stained the rounded over edge. Now waiting on some more tru-oil.

Maybe I need to try some proper binding - but I will need a get a binding router bit to give it a go. I cannot seem to find one locally!

Also, has anyone tried pinstripe decals to add a faux binding?

[Simon Barden]

For decal binding, you’d have to print the decals to match the outline exactly, which wouldn’t be easy. The decal itself would need cutting to follow the outline, leaving a very long and thin decal to slide off the paper and not crease or fold. It could be done, but you’d probably need a few tries to get it right.

Thinline teles have thin binding, not the thicker striped stuff, so you could just mask and spray some white faux binding on.

[vh2580]

For decal binding you could look at these possibly

https://www.inlaystickers.com/collections/binding

Binding router sets are pretty expensive and hard to match a rabbeting bit to a bearing. The cheapest setup I've seen is the attached but can't vouch for site but are Amana bits which are pretty good with the 49342 being the most suited.

https://www.toolstoday.com/binding-r...-bit-sets.html

[Simon Barden]

StuMac are another source of binding tools.