Recent content by StaticRick

Nice one Pete. I want to say thanks to the three others who voted for my submission.  Middle of the pack on my first try.  I'll take it!

I think I need to up my photography skills before I enter again.  It won't be too long before I can do some "guitar in the snow" photos.

An update:  I contacted Warmoth customer service and sent the body back to them to have it fixed.  They turned it around very quickly and corrected the problem with a hole drilled from the control cavity to the diagonal route.  :hello2: 

I've got pickups with full leads, that's never been my concern.  The problem now is that there is no opening from the control cavity to the diagonal route.  In other words, I have no path to get the neck pickup lead to the volume knob. I've thought about the Tele-style hole from the neck pickup...

Not chambered. I feel like there's something I'm missing about this. There are other carved Tele bodies in the showcase where you can see the same diagonal route passing through the neck pickup at the same angle.  To me, the angle looks like it would intersect the end of a traditional Tele...

I don't actually know how it's supposed to be on a carved Tele body.  I know that on a Les Paul the diagonal route goes in a straight line from the toggle switch to the control cavity.  It passes by both of the pickups on the way, so it's kind of a master conduit for all of the wiring.  You can...

I bought a Showcase body a little while ago and finally today I got around to doing the electronics on it, or so I thought.  I quickly realized that the wiring route does not make it all the way to the controls. The body is a carved top Tele with H-H pickups and a LP style selector switch. ...