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Something I found that might be interesting for anybody trying to do a pan setup similar to this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KWJ1WNC/ - 250K https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KWIX18C/ - 500K The proper way to do a pan pot is with a balance-blend pot. CTS makes these in 250K and 500k with a...

Nah, it's all good. That's what these forums are for, right? Crowdsourcing compatibility saves money and headache. I think I can accomplish most of my testing with a second 1/4" jack. I can test my pots by running audio signal in one end and out the other to make sure they're doing what I...

Warmoth states the 24-fret neck extension requires the neck pickup rout to be moved down the body a bit. This is not an option on the Jazzmaster pickguard or top-rout body, and this is routing visible enough that I would not be comfortable trying to perform this modification myself. I'm not...

This is still an open concern—the only concentric pots that are both 500K that I've been able to find are the ones offered by Warmoth with 9.5mm depth on the threads. Do you happen to know the thickness of the hole on a rear-route? Maybe I should just do top-route. The only thing I'd...

1) Thanks for the heads up. I was looking at sound samples for the imperials and liked that they had a very mild tone; I thought it might be a good complement to the surprisingly-mild-for-a-bridge-pickup JB. I could just raise the imperial closer to the strings, but it sounds like that might...

The plan for this build is to pack in features in a nice aesthetic package. My goal is to have a sort of jack-of-all-trades type guitar with the tradeoff that switching between configurations is relatively slow, i.e. this guitar is not meant for live performance, but is more suitable for just...

Thanks, the open route with drilled holes is especially helpful to see—that's a lot of room to work with for custom control layouts (and not having the strat-style volume control in the way). I can also see that the jack hole has plenty of room in there to work with so the long-shaft jacks are...

This is a good point and one for me to keep in mind before I start buying. Drilling a hole is of course very easy and I don't think I'd find it too challenging to find a good spacing that looks nice. A 3-way blade switch is perfectly acceptable if accommodating a 3-way toggle might be...

I'm electing to go with a Jazzmaster as I've discovered I can accomplish what I need with a rear-route on this body. I think the shape is more befitting the sort of understated rustic look I'm going for that'll compliment the natural wood finishes I'm considering (I'm between black/brown/yellow...

Thanks to you both. I guess that explains why I can't find measurements—there's no need to post it as a specification if it's the same with every body. The issue is specifically the combination of no lam top (this is primarily a pricing issue, but the natural wood style I want doesn't seem to...

Does anyone know the working depth (factors in cover) of the Diamondback body? I'm trying to design a build that uses two push/pull pots and two concentric pots (stereo wiring with volume/pan control for each pickup and series/parallel humbucker switch on tone knobs). I don't like the tele...