"Test bed" guitar

[Jumble Jumble]

The point of this guitar is to give me something to test wiring schemes and pickups. I got everything as cheap as I could as it's going to be a housebound beater. Click the images for big versions.

Unfinished alder body, "bonus birdseye" neck with rosewood fingerboard. Both from showcase. 6150 frets, tusq xl nut, Sperzel tuner holes.

I'm going to cut right through the area of the rout where the switch and pots go, so that I will have rear access to the wiring.





A mockup of what its first incarnation will probably look like.

 

[Raunline]

I've actually thought of doing the same thing in regards to the pickup routing. It would leave so many options on the table and the pickguard would dictate what pickups you want to use. No need for additional routing....just get a new pickguard!

 

[Cagey]

Templates and testbeds come in real handy if you're an experimenter/builder. I keep a pickguard to wire Strats up with that's been routed to expose the cavity of a typical Strat...

You lay it under a Strat pickguard, and you know where the relief points are so you don't run wires anywhere they'll hit body wood.

Also, a spare body to mount necks to is handy if you want to set up nuts and set relief to complete a neck setup if you don't have the whole guitar.

 

[Updown]

That's a cool idea  :icon_thumright:

Is there enough room for 4 humbuckers ?  arty07:

 

[Jumble Jumble]

Continued in "work in progress" here.