And so it happened again. I had other plans lined up, and was thinking of either a Baritone Thinline Tele or a Singlecut Hollowbody, but then dangit, this thing came up. I haven't got it yet, but I'm excited to start this one so am starting the Diary a little early this time.
I believe the listing was that it was a cancelled custom order. So with my penchant for Mockingbirds, the flamed top and headstock grain being really interesting, and since the Mockingbird STQ that I used to have didn't have a neck that I liked, I snapped it up, and thought I'd take cues from the STQ and play around with them.
I'm going to use White and Chrome hardware rather than Black, and Warman G-Rail pickups in both positions to go crazy with the wiring. They're such interesting pickups to me as well, and I can't go past them because of that. And since the STQ had some nice extra switching to play around with, I'll be doing a bit of that too.
At the moment, the plans I have for the electronics are:
Standard Stuff: 3-Way Toggle, 1 Volume, 1 Tone
Not so Standard:
Series/Split/Parallel for Rail Coils (3-way Mini-Toggle)
Coil Selection on each pickup, Single-Parallel-Rails-Series (2x 4-Way Blade switches, a la 4-Way Tele switching)
Series/Parallel for Neck with Bridge (2-Way Mini Toggle)
Neck Phase Reverse (2-Way Mini Toggle)
Killswitch
At the moment I don't have any form of diagram, but I theory-crafted a bit and I THINK that these switching choices SHOULD all be able to be strung together. I'm fully prepared for that not to be possible though and to have to cut some of the switching. That could also happen as a result of a lack of cavity space too, especially if I do go for a pair of Blade switches in there. So everything there's subject to change once I get my hands on the parts and start planning the nitty gritty of it. Maybe I'll hog some space out and get all of in there and even add a Varitone sort of setup... I think I actually like the sound of that plan.
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