Recent content by Hodgo

Dinkycaster feels old school, very classic Fender. If it could fit a Mustang control plate with a tort guard over Sherwood green…. Mmmm.

Good call! Although to be a totally unnecessary pedant, *all* things are connected to the hot of the jack ;) V/V/T makes more sense to me than V/T/T for sure.

Yep, that’s just a modified Tele wiring with the tone control moved to the middle lug of the vol pot instead of the input lug as @stratamania suggested. Note that the pickups are wired to the commons - the red terminals in your diagrams.

Neither of these will work, the first one for the reason @stratamania said, the second because you’ve tied the two hot leads of the pickups together. Do you absolutely need two tone pots AND 50s wiring? This would be very simple without 50s wiring, or if you re-used a tone pot for something...

Measured it down to the pixel and came up with 6150 as the closest match using the pole piece as a known width. My 2c. Easy enough margin of error for me to be wrong

Oooooh that sounds better than the actual AmPro heel which is still square.

The build itself is straightforward, biggest difference being that more bass pickups tend to be direct mounted while guitars tend to lean ring/pickguard mounted. For a SSB do think about string selection. IMHO you want to get a bigger gauge AND a short scale specific string. For my purposes the...

Sheeeeesh that’s nice. Cant wait to see the finished product.

Yep. Like learning to swim by attempting a double gainer off the high dive.

Like I mentioned - you need to start with neck pocket and scale measurements. If that is a 24.75” scale guitar you are almost certainly not going to get a Warmoth product to fit without either relocating the bridge or modifying the neck pocket.

For reference - with domed thumbwheels, polished saddles and a well cut nylon nut, I can do full on dives with a maestro equipped SG, often thought of as one of the worst vibrato units ever.

Welcome to the fascinating and frustrating world of psychoacoustics For what it’s worth I find that bright guitars sit much better in a stage mix.

If I had this guitar in my hands what I would do: 1. Check every moving component for functionality - tuners, intonation screws, pots, jack, truss rod. Replace what’s needed. If the bridge is cheapo, plenty of great import bridge replacement options like Faber. 2. Check the starting setup -...

Oh it’s definitely fun, just not as simple as say, a Tele. You’re in $200 either way, and unless you are certain the neck pocket is located such that a Fender neck is a direct swap you could be in trouble - that tuneomatic gives you very little wiggle room for intonation problems, and you might...

You’ll need to confirm the neck pocket dimensions and scale before you can consider a Warmoth neck a 1:1 swap (unless someone here already knows better). I’d leave it. If the neck isn’t twisted and the truss rod functions, it just needs a little love to be a proper player. And if you can’t...