Wired!

 

Figuring out everything can go through the solderless volume pot.

Tone pot and switch installed in the body.

What the switch and tone look like underneath.

Now everybody's here and the party is starting!

It works!!!

Time To Rebuild

Headstock fitted with tuning machines, bone nut, and truss-rod cover.

Aligning neck in pocket of the body.

Set neck with a thin wedge-shaped maple shim in edge of pocket.

All strung up and waiting for electronics.

Whippersnapper +1 Luck Guitar Custom Rebuild

(Hey! I see my face...)

I am laid up with a bad cold, but it so happens that all the parts (except strings) have arrived to rebuild the Whippersnapper +1 Luck Guitar gifted me from my friend Sick Rick. 

The guitar has always at very best intonated a hair sharp on the low E because the bridge saddle adjustment screw bottoms out. I thought it was perhaps because Sick mis-drilled the bridge-pin holes, but it turns out the original neck could be the culprit. 

That neck, a super thick and heavy piece of maple, had the 22nd fret sitting right above the bottom edge of the neck pocket. The replacement neck I found (same 24.75" scale length on a thinner piece of maple) has the 22nd fret sitting about between a 1/4-1/2" down the neck from there. Installing the neck will have the effect to shift the entire scale length away from the bridge providing I estimate a better range for the intonation adjustments on the new saddle without having to drill new post holes.

The rebuild upgrades are:

• Schaller Signum Bridge
• Schaller locking tuners
• Schaller Strap Locks
• Custom mid-scoop switch, 3-way Tone Pot (normal tone, push-pull pulled has bass cut and fixed wah), and volume pot all by KellingSound
• Maple 22-fret Guitar Neck
• Custom Waterslide Headstock Decal from PopsDecals
• Custom Truss Rod Cover by GuitarUpgrade

I am keeping whatever humbucker pickup Sick installed, it is a screamer. Also Sick had put a bone nut in that looks like it will pit perfectly on the new neck. 

Only thing is even if I get it all together this weekend strings won't arrive until Tuesday. :~P

P.S. Ohhhh, tired of force-feeding guitar through a 15" speaker bass rig I picked up a used early 1990s Fender Ultimate Chorus...