Finally making some progress on my Carve top Tele
I had a Just out of the box thread, but it's been a while so here it is again
Tuners installed
Body arrived
I didn't want a neck plate on this, so I had my mate machined up some inserts that would go into the body and a M5 cap screw sits flush inside, I made the mistake of ordering the body and neck with holes drilled, as the inserts are 15mm diameter they need to be moved inwards from the standard mounting holes, so I plugged them up.
Here is the body clamped up in the drill after boring the 1st hole
And here it is after drilling all 4 holes
The next step is to install the neck inserts, I couldn't find anywhere to buy them locally, So I bought a length of M10 all thread cut it into short pieces and drilled a 4mm hole in the centre, then tapped it M5, hopefully I get them installed in the next week or so.
I had a Just out of the box thread, but it's been a while so here it is again
Tuners installed
Body arrived
I didn't want a neck plate on this, so I had my mate machined up some inserts that would go into the body and a M5 cap screw sits flush inside, I made the mistake of ordering the body and neck with holes drilled, as the inserts are 15mm diameter they need to be moved inwards from the standard mounting holes, so I plugged them up.
Here is the body clamped up in the drill after boring the 1st hole
And here it is after drilling all 4 holes
The next step is to install the neck inserts, I couldn't find anywhere to buy them locally, So I bought a length of M10 all thread cut it into short pieces and drilled a 4mm hole in the centre, then tapped it M5, hopefully I get them installed in the next week or so.