So this is where we stand, only thing remaining is to make a pickguard and decide to add it or keep as is.

Used the guitar fabric hand polish kit. Couldn't recommend it highly enough. Picked up james hetfield emgs on cheap. Guitar is intended for metal so wanted to try actives, a little extra space needed to be made in control cavity with dremmel, but no big deal. Emg solderless wiring was a dream

Happy enough with the cheap hardware from northwest guitars. Though post holds in bridge were a bit too snug and needed to be widened.

After setup guitar is playing as well as my american strat, i just had one fret that i needed to take down a touch that i missed during fret levellingClick image for larger version. 

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