Well folks, I'm back in the game.
First of all I have to send out a huge thanks to Gav Turner and PBG. I had been thinking of stripping back my first build (an RC-1 in Dark Tease) and painting it blue. A lot of you already know that I love blue Rickies. Anyway, when Gav had problems with his Stone Roses tribute the PBG guys sent him a body and neck, gratis. Gav didn't end up using it so he sent it to me so that I didn't have to attack the 'Viking'. Gotta say that this community rocks!
Anyway, it came without hardware so I did some buying (lotsa fun). Got a clean trapeze (no scroll work), some Filtertron-ish pups, a roller tune-o-matic bridge, machine heads and jack plate.
So... I did a mock build and identified a few problems but nothing insurmountable with the help that goes on here:
The neck pocket will need some work as there are gaps and irregularities.
The pups don't fit in the cavities (but I knew that would be the case because the cavities are not standard Humbucker size on these kits).
The pup surrounds don't cover the pup routes (I'm thinking of making an all-in-one custom scratchplate to cover the control cavity, hold the pups and hide the pup route problem. Probably do it in white pearloid).
Anyway, I won't be able to do much straight away as it's 'holiday time'! Yes, I'm off for four weeks of fun, adventure and really wild things.
But I'm damn pleased to be back building!
Neck and body as received. Note previously modified pup route.
Mock build without pup surrounds.
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. The original PUP surrounds that came with the kit are a little oversized and cover the pickup cavity "fixes". Might be worth making a couple of new ones? I reckon you'll want to cover up as little of your blue colour coats as possible. I guess you'll have to make the traditional ricky scratchplate anyway, so a one piece deal kinda like the 
