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One of the students Ive had building guitars from last year decided he had lost interest in his guitar project. He asked me if i would finish it for him, so with a small financial incentive I have finished and assembled it. He now has the task of stripping it and prepping the body and painting it. The plan for the body I drew up with some known measurements and scaled it off a pic. I must say it is quite a comfortable guitar to play, as I contoured the back but a pig to try and stand up. It is quite heavy as well as it is Sapelle. I made up the cavity covers from kitchen benchtop laminate.

He has all gold hardware with Gotoh tuners and EMG HZ4/HZ4A pickups. Im not overly impressed with the pickups. The neck pickup is quite dark and muddy sounding and the bridge nothing special either.

He had a few oops here and there with power tools so the body needs a bit of wood filler here and there plus grain filling to make it decent.

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Yes I agree about the pickups. For the price they are, one would expect a lot better pickup. There is also bit of noise when you take your hand off the strings as well even though the bridge is earthed and the cavities plus covers have copper shielding.

The tenon is the length of the finger board and upper fret access isn't too bad considering 24 frets. The neck actually seemed quite flexible for some reason but the double acting Hotrod keeps it straight. I have used them on the last couple of builds and now wouldn't use anything else. They really are amazing and necessary to pull the neck straight after fretting to be able to level the frets properly.

The selector switch wiring hole was drilled from the neck pickup cavity to the switch cavity. It was a matter of marking a pencil centre line for a guide and eye balling the angle and hoping for the best and it worked out OK.

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