GlennGPs Tele #2 ("Tanias Red Menace")

[GlennGP]

Thanks Gavin, though I'm looking at a 3-way application here, not a 5-way. However, you've astutely identified the point that the acquisition of a multimeter appears to be neccessary in order for my insatiable curiosity to be assuaged.

Sorry, language got away from me there. You've reminded me that I need a multimeter to help me work this out.

Cheers!

[Gavin1393]

Thank goodness you repeated that in English! I was battling with the accent! Ah yes, you did say three way! I had the same issue as you are having two weeks ago and hence researched my issue back then which was with a five way switch. Solved the problem with my wiring and then discovered the damned switch does not allow you to fit the plate over the cavity! It's 34mm but needed to be no more than 28mm! This is on the IB-1! So off to eBay and found an option that should work!

[GlennGP]

I now have all parts on hand, and the bridge rout will definitely need a little widening to accommodate the pickup. I'll do as suggested earlier, i.e. do a full neck to bridge alignment, mark the outline of the bridge and use that as my limit (+1 or 2 mm).

In the meantime, it's sand, sand, sand. I had my Dad over the other night and showed him the body I'd been sanding. And he reaches out and gives the body a sharp couple of taps with a long-nailed finger for some reason or other. And as he does so I'm watching each tap leave a mark in the sanded body ... *sigh* I couldn't get mad, but I'd actually finished with that side ...

[WeirdBits]

From now on it's mandatory fingernail inspections before anyone goes near the body, no exceptions!

[glenno3228]

Reading these posts whilst on holidays wasn't meant to make me wish I was home in the garage but it has somewhat distracted me. Look forward to seeing this when done.

Cheers
Glenn

[GlennGP]

I've now had two goes at doing the full bridge-neck alignment. First go I thought I had it all right, to the point that I drilled for the bridge and attached it, only to find out I had it slightly out of alignment. I had precisely this problem on the Yellow Peril, and it didn't piss me off any less this time. So, out with the bamboo skewers and glue to fill those fricken holes, and then it's taken me a week and a half to find a night with the time to re-do the job, along with the inclination to face adversity and tell it to go take a leap.

So, I'm measuring and lining up and swearing quietly to myself as things continue not to work - specifically, the high E is consistently too close to the edge of the fret board. It occurred to me that I should re-check my centre-line. I'd been lining up a piece of string directly over the fret dots on the neck to line up with a mark on the body. So I measured whether the fret dots are, in fact, on the centre line of the neck. Nup. They're lined up with one another , all right, but not on centre. Oh. My. God.

So it's all marked out properly now and I can expand that bridge pup rout with some confidence, then finish sanding and THEN I'll be ready to put some Carmine Gypsy on this baby!

[GlennGP]

All righty, work will have to be suspended for a bit on the Red Menace, mainly due to the fact that I'm going to have to pack up this house and move interstate because I just scored a whole new job. Tania knows and is in "no rush" mode, so all's well. I'll probably be able to spend some decent time on the guitar in about six weeks, which is still (I think) inside the shelf life of the Wudtone. In the meantime, this thing ain't goin' nowhere, while I use all my free time on all those little maintenance jobs around the house that make a place attractive to potential buyers ...

[Brendan]

Congratulations on the new job - which way are you moving?

Good luck with selling the house...

[Walrus]

Glenn, I'm curious about those Wilde Bill pickups. Any comments on the strat Keystones? I'm building an ST-1 but I am already planning upgrades.

[GlennGP]

Quote from Brendan on June 3, 2013, 18:11
Congratulations on the new job - which way are you moving?

Good luck with selling the house...

Thanks Brendan - back to Canberra. We've sold a few times before (I think this is our sixth in 15 years) so pretty familiar with the drill.

As for the keystones, I'm afraid I haven't been able to try them out yet. But I was convinced enough by Bill's track record, testimonials and YouTube demos to think they'd be a good bet, and I daresay if you have a complaint Bill and Becky are honourable enough to deal plainly with you.