This is the third time I’ve done the pickup cable channels by hand. Looking at the thickness of the top, I could of got away with cutting them with a router and then gluing on the top, but I wasn’t sure. Instead, it’s 12″ long drill bits in a hand drill!
With the centre line of the top and the trussrod access cutout, I had some strong visual clues to help the drilling. I started at the neck pickup route in the centre.
Landed a tiny bit lower, but pretty central, in the bridge pickup route – so I’m happy with the result.