Great, I just dumped a diet coke on my keyboard.
This'll be an interesting post.
Anyway, I've got a customer that dreams of having a 3 pickup bass so I've got his Cort P bass copy and I'm dropping 2 soapbar passive pickups in it. One next to the bridge, outside of the pickguard, and one next to the neck, inside the pickguard. He'll still have his stock split coil in the middle. (pause to mop up more diet Coke from under keys....) I'll then install a stock Strat 5 way switch giving him standard Strat pickup selector wiring, and he'll have a master volume and a master tone. I have to route both cavities for the new soapbar pickups and I've spent at an hour today working on a routing template I'm making from 3/16" plexiglass. The radius of the router bit isn't as tight as the rounded edges on the pickups so the test route cavity is just a hair too short. I clamped a steel straight edge next to one end and left about 1/32" of plexi showing then used a hand file to get it flush with the steel. Another test route will be in order but I'm out of test stock here at the office. (another pause to mop up diet Coke) I hope to be able to route the pup cavities on Wednesday.
