Embarrassing admission....Happy Number 38 guitar to me.

[Simon Barden]

Also wide heat shrink over the signal lug as well, so remember to slide it on over the output lead signal wire before soldering that on.

[ozzbike]

Shielding plus side mount jacks can easily cause hidden problems. Grab some wide heat-shrink tubing and slide it over the arm any time you’re doing a side mount, it’ll save headaches:

Attachment 40347

Glad you got it sorted.

Sadly,
I had that on the hook end already. Maybe not enough....or as Simon said...the live lug on the jack was touching the side of the jack rout. I turned it about 1/4 turn and away it went. I have resoldered both joints with heat shrink over both of them.

P.S. I have now checked two other guitars I have had intermittent connectivity issues with....and guess what...same issue. All fixed now.

[ozzbike]

After many starts and stops she is finally finished. "The Head Case" has arrived.

[ozzbike]

The shielding has made her nearly completely quiet. I find this amazing considering she has those huge P90's.

The fat strings are not quite to intonation requirements.....I may have to swap the bridge saddles around to allow a smidge more forward movement.

The neck sits up as little at the front of the neck pocket. A small gap under the end of the body. I had to file and sand the ends and side of the pickguard to get it to fit between the pickup rings and around the end of the switch plate.

It is honestly a pity I can't play a six string....because my noodling up and down the neck in pentatonic scales has such a magic sound.

If you are considering a little different kit I can highly recommend this one.

The body has a natural wood faux binding on the back opposite the nice white binding on the front edge of the body. I used Feast Watson dyes on this one. The front and back of the body is Maple, the sides and the neck are Golden Teak. A thinned and mixed Golden Teak and Maple stain is on the front of the headstock.

Hand made complete wiring harness using CTS pots, orange drop cap, switchcraft jack socket, recessed Telecaster chrome jack socket. Grover lock tuners, bone nut, heavy metal knobs with grub screw lock, Tone Rider Rebel P90 pickups, and sealed with Cabots poly on the body and neck. Gloss on the body and neck.

[McCreed]

Very nice! Sometimes the ones that cause the most grief, come out the best. Or sometimes they're just a s**tload of grief!!!

[ozzbike]

Very nice! Sometimes the ones that cause the most grief, come out the best. Or sometimes they're just a s**tload of grief!!!

She is lucky she plays and sounds so nice......otherwise she may have become a bin resident. Phew.

[McCreed]

...otherwise she may have become a bin resident.

I think burning in effigy would have been more fun! (and cathartic)

[DarkMark]

Those colours look great! You’re giving me bad ideas (I don’t need another guitar). Stop inspiring me!
How about a sound demo to hear those pickups?

[ozzbike]

Those colours look great! You’re giving me bad ideas (I don’t need another guitar). Stop inspiring me!
How about a sound demo to hear those pickups?

Mark you are a hard task master....just threw this up on YouTube.....nice video of my legs as the phone was leaning on its mount ring. Sounds from a JOYO DC-30 modelling amp....from clean, crunch, lead and metal models.

Still embarrassing.....but this guitar just plays so well....I love the tones from it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvd-JIAI12A

[DarkMark]

Good on ya! As you said, the shielding has made it nice and quiet. I haven’t heard too many demos of other pickup brands I hear people talking about here, but Tonerider do impress me. I enjoyed your demo. Thank you very much.