Bblkepling
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This is a continuation of this thread:
http://unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=24919.0
After a month of sitting on a pile of parts and never finding the time to take them to my tech I finally found the motivation to go ahead and do most of the work myself. I had the tuners installed by my tech a while ago waiting for back ordered parts, but everything else so far I've done myself.
I found that most of the holes needed to have the finish cleaned away from the inside of the holes before things went smoothly(Potentiometers, bridge and ferrules). I used a drill bit of the same size and hand turned it through the holes and that seemed to fix the hold up there (also liberal wax usage on the screws helped a lot too). Drilling the other holes proved to be easy and I had no problems there. One thing that I noted was that there was no hole running from the switch in the upper cavity to anywhere else. I ended up just drilling it myself through the top of the neck pickup route, and it worked out fine.
Of all things to give me trouble have been the potentiometers, and I'm about to order the 3rd set of them for this guitar. The 1st set I ordered had a thread length of 1/4", and if you look at the thickness of a Warmoth top you will note that this will not work. Oops, into the pile of spare parts they go. The 2nd set I made sure I got 3/8" thread length to pass through the top, but after I wired it up and tried to put the pots through I found that they don't work with both washers. That's what I get for forgetting to check everything and assuming that it should work. My next guitar will have a pickguard so I can use up these extra pots I have laying around now, lol.
The wiring works fine, but there are some goofy things about it that doesn't make sense to me. For some reason when I drop the one of the volume knobs to 0 it kills the volume for the entire circuit, odd but it does work otherwise. Rather than diagnosing the problem I'm just going to completely redo the wiring when I get new pots. I was able to find proper pots for my application with 1/2" thread length, these guys have to custom order them and as far as I can tell they are the only ones who carry pots like this:
http://www.toneshapers.com/wiring-parts/pots/bourns-500k-audio-pot-push-pull.html#.VXDHHUaWRKU
Where I'm at right now is I need to adjust and bolt on the neck, string and setup. May just hand it off to my tech and have him do it.
Also the headstock looks naked, anyone have suggestions on what to do with a unfinished bloodwood headstock? Warmoth did send me a decal/sticker thingy but I have no plans on a neck finish.
http://unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=24919.0
After a month of sitting on a pile of parts and never finding the time to take them to my tech I finally found the motivation to go ahead and do most of the work myself. I had the tuners installed by my tech a while ago waiting for back ordered parts, but everything else so far I've done myself.
I found that most of the holes needed to have the finish cleaned away from the inside of the holes before things went smoothly(Potentiometers, bridge and ferrules). I used a drill bit of the same size and hand turned it through the holes and that seemed to fix the hold up there (also liberal wax usage on the screws helped a lot too). Drilling the other holes proved to be easy and I had no problems there. One thing that I noted was that there was no hole running from the switch in the upper cavity to anywhere else. I ended up just drilling it myself through the top of the neck pickup route, and it worked out fine.
Of all things to give me trouble have been the potentiometers, and I'm about to order the 3rd set of them for this guitar. The 1st set I ordered had a thread length of 1/4", and if you look at the thickness of a Warmoth top you will note that this will not work. Oops, into the pile of spare parts they go. The 2nd set I made sure I got 3/8" thread length to pass through the top, but after I wired it up and tried to put the pots through I found that they don't work with both washers. That's what I get for forgetting to check everything and assuming that it should work. My next guitar will have a pickguard so I can use up these extra pots I have laying around now, lol.
The wiring works fine, but there are some goofy things about it that doesn't make sense to me. For some reason when I drop the one of the volume knobs to 0 it kills the volume for the entire circuit, odd but it does work otherwise. Rather than diagnosing the problem I'm just going to completely redo the wiring when I get new pots. I was able to find proper pots for my application with 1/2" thread length, these guys have to custom order them and as far as I can tell they are the only ones who carry pots like this:
http://www.toneshapers.com/wiring-parts/pots/bourns-500k-audio-pot-push-pull.html#.VXDHHUaWRKU
Where I'm at right now is I need to adjust and bolt on the neck, string and setup. May just hand it off to my tech and have him do it.
Also the headstock looks naked, anyone have suggestions on what to do with a unfinished bloodwood headstock? Warmoth did send me a decal/sticker thingy but I have no plans on a neck finish.
