Pickup Routes Cut – June 2011

The guitar building stopped for a while due to travel and weather, however it’s back underway.

The neck pocket has been cut. I used clamped bits of wood around the neck to form a “negative” of the neck end. This was then used to cut some 12mm MDF with the neck pocket shape. The end results when transferred onto the guitar are fairly good. The end is a bit scrappy, as the neck is square ended (which is not possible to cut with a router). Some chisel work as got it a lot better than the last guitar, but the next one needs more thought!

The wheel of the truss rod sits in a channel between the neck and the pickup.

The neck and bridge pickup holes have been cut and the hole linking them drilled. The bridge pickup hole is tight, which means wiring the neck pickup past it will be tough.

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