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Could you flip over your body blank so you the gap would be hidden against your maple top?

Two stories I read on other forums some time ago had hand damage involved. One was about accidentally dropping a powered on router, and in a flash of a second one thought came up in mind to save the router. While grabbing the router in mid air spinning bit dug in to his hand. There sure is potential for huge damage in this scenario. Other was about belt sander. While sanding a piece of wood it caught the belt and flew away, and once again one thought came up. It was "save the wood" and while trying to grab the flying wood in mid air fingertip touched the belt. Saw a picture about that and it looked like soft parts were gone from that fingertip. Same thing happened to me also but it was only surface scratch. Can´t be 100% sure about the stories but I guess the lesson to be learned here is the most important thing. In a flash of a second there is room for only one thought. Know beforehand that the idea in your mind is not to save the money. So if something ever happens let that precious wood or your new router tip bite the concrete, just let them go. You can always get more wood or new bits but not new fingers. Just make sure that the one idea you have for case of emergency is about protecting yourself.

Wow what an great story, thanks for sharing ! Nothing but my greatest respect to you guys all.

Ok thanks, maybe I´ll give both wires a go. Two guitars wired differently with different pots and I´ll then decide which one works better for me.

Oh I see, No gigs on my schedule for now I have emgs on my guitar and have wondered about that shielding and lack of grounding, but it all seems to work great. Great idea, I´ll see what happens. I don´t want to overdo it either

These bodies won´t have long cables, mainly control cavity, pickups, jack cavity and trem grounding. Or atleast I think these won´t count as long ones? I´m asking anyone who reads this and is willing to share the time and knowledge, maybe @Andyjr1515 was also? Actually I was kinda dreaming to have clear covers on electronics cavities, so it wouldn´t be possible to completely shield that. Maybe there´s a good reason why most covers are not transparent . I thought that you don´t need to shield your cavities if you use shielded wires, saw some video about that. At this point I´m not interested in tone at all, as long as I have eq on amps and such I´m fine. Does it beat the purpose of shielded wire if you have ends exposed, where the solder joints are? Or is it adequate if you have majority of the wire covered? Even before any installing experience I was thinking how to actually use that wire succesfully, in a clean and easy way. What part of the interference does this shielding remove? Is it the constant humming/buzzing, or that and the contact humming when you touch pickups? Or is the contact humming a grounding issue? After reading your comments I have no idea what to buy

I know I promised not to bother you guys untill I get the project going again, but I´m in a pickle here. I have to order those pots and I´ll get various types of CTS or Alpha and not anything cheap, that´s settled. But if I have 4-conductor pickups do I need 4-conductor wire for anything or should I just order single conductor wire for everything connected in my circuit? Trying to make a list of things to order on the same package.

Nice, thanks alot. I have one guitar with tone control and one without it. I´ve noticed that I never use the tone knob, It´s always on full. Maybe I´ll just buy a bunch of everything and try those on, since it looks like that electric parts are pretty cheap compared to other guitar parts. Then there is the whole art of soldering and what goes to where, but I´ll get back to that when I have that task at hand.

Thank you both andy and curtisa, I really appreciate the time you have taken to answer my questions. Very informative and helpful. I tried to put your forum names as highlighted links, but something broke and couldn´t do anything to text after that. Had to close browser and relog for new reply. Thickness on my bodies is around 44-45mm so I think there is plenty of room for electric components. One thing I forgot to ask was about jacks for plugs, two types that I remember on top of my head (barrel and open type). I actually don´t even know what type my own guitars have. Never had a problem with those so never had to look under the hood. Witch ones to look for? I´ve understood that you can more easily tighten the open jack in case of loosened contact. What about stereo jacks? Active pickups like emgs might come with a stereo jack? In my own setup (guitar->pedal->amp) I don´t think I need stereo jack, but in what case would I or someone else need one?

No progress on guitars in recent two months sadly. First month was furious christmas gift crafting and second month family/rest/flu related. But I have been wondering about guitar electronics, because I have zero experience on guitar electronics. Never had to do any modding or pickup switching, I´ve just played those things. Atleast I know what I would like to have and what I don´t need. I would like to have two humbuckers with coil splitting. having two humbuckers with 5-way switch is not enough if you want combination of neck,bridge,both with and without coil splitting. So do I need a push/pull pot for this plan and a 3-way switch ? I don´t need the best components, but then again I don´t want to cheap out on this and redo my pots anytime soon. Is there anything else to look for on electrics? I´ve understood that with short shaft pot you can still have about 1/4" inch material on the guitar between knob and pot? Because I need one for pickguarded guitar and one without. And the type of shaft also apparently matters if you wan´t to install premade knobs, but I was planning to make wooden knobs so maybe solid shaft is best for that ? I´m such a noob :)

Finally got around to do some drilling, locking nut holes and tuner holes. Also I shaped the back a little but had to leave a flat part to shape the fretboard. If I shape the neck last after fretting I´m afraid that neck might twist or bend in some weird way, maybe I could shape the neck now and do fretwork with some kind of supports on the rounded side. Like I said earlier I have to take one for the team and drill next to a wide trussrod head and see what the results would be, It turned out great. It sure did poke out the sides of trussrod cavity, but the holes are so small that you can´t see much light coming from the holes. I´ll just leave some kind of volute on the back side so hopefully it won´t fail on me on the long run. I made two step holes for the tuners, I hope they line up close enough. Hard to drill accurately with wobbly bits and such an off balanced object, flat strat neck would be a piece of cake.

Thanks a lot. No inlays, radius or frets on the fretboards yet. And still no final shape of the headstocks but I don´t stress about that anymore. I´ll shape them with handtools so the end up being one of a kind anyways. I would like to shape those headstocks this week and drill holes for tuners, locking nut and tremolo posts. New pics then maybe

Finally these are remotely resembling guitars, I´m happy but there is still a lot of work ahead. 6 string on the left and 7 string on the right. Still no working pictures and I think unless something dramatically changes on my working environment there wont be either. These necks have been bolted with larger bolts than usually so those inserts might look big. I also installed threaded inserts inside.

You can derail all you want, any input is welcomed warmly. And if you derail me I hope that all those tools and pieces of wood on the floors, kitchen table, livingroom and basically everywhere reminds me what I was doing

Yes it´s all natural vegan dye, looks really dark on the kettle but surprisingly light on the wood. I quess like all dyes and stains do. It´s hard to sand back so small objects, I need bigger or flatter test piece. We don´t have mulberries here at least that I know of. Lots of blueberries though. On the long run I have no idea if these kind of organic colors fade more or quicker than factory stuff.