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misplacedsanity
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I understand you cut them quite big (read as "huge") so you can fit different combinations of switches, pots, nuclear reactors and what not in there. But I'm sure 99% of people only need enough room for a switch and a volume and tone pot. You don't feel the need to go over the top with your front routed bodies, they're cut just the way they always have been, big enough to be functional no more no less.
I've got a beautiful one piece korina rear route, it's a spectacular piece of wood, but you flip it over and there is this massive expanse of crappy black plastic staring at you. And whats this sweeping landscape of ugly black plastic hiding I hear you ask, well I'll tell you. A volume pot, one teeny tiny little lonely volume pot. It gets scared in there all on it's own.
I might have been a bit dramatic here, but seriously, couldn't it be routed smaller? If you're taking your cues for your front routes directly from the Fender strat, couldn't you base the rear route on something like the Charvel San Dimas?
I know you'll say that if you cut them smaller you'd have a swarm of people claiming they're not big enough, but you should ignore those people and listen to me. I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm exaggerating, but no good can come of having a route this big. I once went on holiday ("vacation" for all the none English speaking people) for a couple of weeks and I came home to find a family of Albanians camping in the back of my strat, it wasn't pretty I can tell you. I could have been spared all the stress of having to get them evicted if the rear route had only been smaller. Although on a plus point, all that extra weight did make it sustain a lot better, but still, they had to go.
I've got a beautiful one piece korina rear route, it's a spectacular piece of wood, but you flip it over and there is this massive expanse of crappy black plastic staring at you. And whats this sweeping landscape of ugly black plastic hiding I hear you ask, well I'll tell you. A volume pot, one teeny tiny little lonely volume pot. It gets scared in there all on it's own.
I might have been a bit dramatic here, but seriously, couldn't it be routed smaller? If you're taking your cues for your front routes directly from the Fender strat, couldn't you base the rear route on something like the Charvel San Dimas?
I know you'll say that if you cut them smaller you'd have a swarm of people claiming they're not big enough, but you should ignore those people and listen to me. I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm exaggerating, but no good can come of having a route this big. I once went on holiday ("vacation" for all the none English speaking people) for a couple of weeks and I came home to find a family of Albanians camping in the back of my strat, it wasn't pretty I can tell you. I could have been spared all the stress of having to get them evicted if the rear route had only been smaller. Although on a plus point, all that extra weight did make it sustain a lot better, but still, they had to go.
