@rathius There was a thread about this a while back. I think the general consensus was about 10mm for a routed out body.

@tv101 Pickup wiring colour codes?? You're onto something there, there is a need for a definitive list of pickup colours and obviously it'll have to include random unbranded items from ebay left ov...

@swepri A letter code may be used to identify which taper is used, but the letter code definitions are not standardized. Now that thats cleared up, I'll see if I can find another can of worms to op...

@nsj I've got to ask, where did you find these weirdo pots? These were amongst a job lot of harnesses from ebay, somebody clearing out their junk boxes. I've only got myself to blame.

@nsj how sure are you? I'm as sure as absolutely certain.

Well the guitar is all back together again and working. There seemed to be a random earthing problem and some tremendous hum. Eventually switched off the laptop charger, that had me going for a while,...

Posted by: @jamesbisset ↑ Position 1 Position 2 Position 3 Position 4 Position 5 I'd go with position 1, I'm more of a traditionalist.

Thank you all for your kind words. We're back at the caravan now, popped in to see Ella on our way past, she's the cutest little thing. Back to guitar electrics tomorrow.

Still haven't got the electrics working, had the harness in and out another couple times now. There's been various faults, I'd broken an earth wire off one of the pots, a tiny bit of solder between t...

@clinton A pair of beauties.

@nsj @koendb I'm thinking the same way as you both. I've tried giving the switch a good wiggle with no effect. I'm guessing there's a hot wire on the bridge pickup circuit earthing somewhere, i think...

Good news, found my hardware, turned out that it was in the bottom of a box that I hadn't looked looked in because "I wouldn't have put it in there" Attachment : 20230910_154527.jpg Thats the ...

@brie Its happened to us all, and it'll probably happen again. Thats good advice from @swepri not to be too greedy with the cuts. Your first reaction to stop and have a beer was the right thing to do....

@marcel Today I celebrated my 66th birthday by working on the frets. Happy birthday Marcel, what better way to spend a birthday.

@tv101 We could all send our spare parts up to you to fit? You could make a 4 pickup, 5-string guitar with 1 volume and 3 tone pots and 2 bridges That would be very kind, but I'll just bide my time...

Another delay in fitting the hardware, can't find it. Searched the shed, house, garage and car last night, its not at home. Its got to be in the caravan somewhere, thats me back in limbo again.

@swepri "Smooth, faultless build". That must surely be utopic... 😉 I'm not convinced that its even possible.

@tv101 Congrats on that Robin. Now you'll have to do an emergency dash back home to collect all the bits to be able to put it together. I sometimes wonder if the builds-that-go-wrong-but-are-rescue...

@boo What is that paint job like? Its got a good finish on it, feels a bit plasticy, I wonder if its been plastic coated, maybe powder sprayed/coated rather than painted.

I've applied a couple of coats of Danish Oil and tben polished it up with natural bee's wax, so its got all the finishing thats its getting now. It looks a bit rustic but I'm happy with it. I wish I'd...