Shalom,
I was directed by the kindly folks at Warmoth to posit my question here, so I'll try to keep this quick.
I'm a first timer in considering building a Partscaster, and the whole Warmoth deal seems really appealing to me, especially with my idealized, super adulterated instrument that I would likely never find at the casual GC or Sweetwater catalogue.
I'm particularly interested in going with a rear-routed option to preserve those sweet, sweet grain lines on a quilted maple top. My problem is this: I'm a complete novice when it comes to the mild electrician work required to wire up pots and pickups. I have experience building computers, which is why rolling my own Partscaster seems so appealing, but apart from the most casual enthusiast grade components in PC building, I've no experience in wiring/soldering/etc...
That's why Obsidian Wire seems so appealing to me, especially given they have a harness that uses a super switch for jumping between 500k and 250k pots for the HSS setup that I'm eyeing (more on that later). I'm not averse to wiring or learning, as I've got a partner in crime who rolled a Partscaster back in the day to help me, but I like the cleanliness and the professional look of a pre-wired PCB (blame that on my PC builder upbringing), and I've read some pretty dang good things about Obsidian.
Here's my problem though: in order to get the setup I want, I'm pretty much forced into using a rear routed path, even though I would prefer rear-routed anyways because of my love for some good wood (enjoy that one). My question is this: has anyone here used Obsidian before and had experience with them, and have you ever used a harness in wiring a rear routed instrument? I'm concerned the pot shafts might not be long enough given that the distance between the back of the socket and the top of the guitar is longer than that of a standard pickguard.
If anyone has information regarding this, please don't hesitate to reply.
For those wondering what my idealized setup would be, I'm looking at a Thinline Tele/strat hybrid with the chambered body as a jazz/casual rock workhorse, as I'm a frail little old man who can't really heft a 9 pound slab of solid wood, much as I'd like to think I could. I'm hoping that this harness works out so that I can run with my pickup positions, which I've yet to see anywhere else, where I go with a reverse HSS setup, where I stick the humbucker on the neck with single coils on the bridge and middle so I can have classic jazz tones with just the neck, and when I go to any of the other positions, I can split the humbucker for the rest of the classic strat tones. I haven't really seen this setup before, and I still haven't after scouring the internet for a reverse HSS setup, so please feel free to critique and totally ream my dream. I ain't gonna learn any other way. As far as pickups, I'm looking at a Benedetto A6 for the buck on the neck, a SSL-1 RWRP for the middle, and a standard SSL-5 for the bridge.
Appreciate any help y'all can give me.
I was directed by the kindly folks at Warmoth to posit my question here, so I'll try to keep this quick.
I'm a first timer in considering building a Partscaster, and the whole Warmoth deal seems really appealing to me, especially with my idealized, super adulterated instrument that I would likely never find at the casual GC or Sweetwater catalogue.
I'm particularly interested in going with a rear-routed option to preserve those sweet, sweet grain lines on a quilted maple top. My problem is this: I'm a complete novice when it comes to the mild electrician work required to wire up pots and pickups. I have experience building computers, which is why rolling my own Partscaster seems so appealing, but apart from the most casual enthusiast grade components in PC building, I've no experience in wiring/soldering/etc...
That's why Obsidian Wire seems so appealing to me, especially given they have a harness that uses a super switch for jumping between 500k and 250k pots for the HSS setup that I'm eyeing (more on that later). I'm not averse to wiring or learning, as I've got a partner in crime who rolled a Partscaster back in the day to help me, but I like the cleanliness and the professional look of a pre-wired PCB (blame that on my PC builder upbringing), and I've read some pretty dang good things about Obsidian.
Here's my problem though: in order to get the setup I want, I'm pretty much forced into using a rear routed path, even though I would prefer rear-routed anyways because of my love for some good wood (enjoy that one). My question is this: has anyone here used Obsidian before and had experience with them, and have you ever used a harness in wiring a rear routed instrument? I'm concerned the pot shafts might not be long enough given that the distance between the back of the socket and the top of the guitar is longer than that of a standard pickguard.
If anyone has information regarding this, please don't hesitate to reply.
For those wondering what my idealized setup would be, I'm looking at a Thinline Tele/strat hybrid with the chambered body as a jazz/casual rock workhorse, as I'm a frail little old man who can't really heft a 9 pound slab of solid wood, much as I'd like to think I could. I'm hoping that this harness works out so that I can run with my pickup positions, which I've yet to see anywhere else, where I go with a reverse HSS setup, where I stick the humbucker on the neck with single coils on the bridge and middle so I can have classic jazz tones with just the neck, and when I go to any of the other positions, I can split the humbucker for the rest of the classic strat tones. I haven't really seen this setup before, and I still haven't after scouring the internet for a reverse HSS setup, so please feel free to critique and totally ream my dream. I ain't gonna learn any other way. As far as pickups, I'm looking at a Benedetto A6 for the buck on the neck, a SSL-1 RWRP for the middle, and a standard SSL-5 for the bridge.
Appreciate any help y'all can give me.