Strat: Best Way To Route Wire Channel For Top Horn Of Strat (No Cap) LP-Like

[trevorus]

Re: Strat: Best Way To Route Wire Channel For Top Horn Of Strat (No Cap) LP-Like



Check that out. That's one way to do it, but you could also do the round route like an LP. First do your inset for the cover plate, then the rest of the routed channel. Measure 14 times before you drill. Then find the shortest line from the cavity to the pickup cavity. Mark this well, and then run your aircraft bit as close to level the back as your routed cavity will allow. Drill carefully toward the neck pickup. Check your angle of attack and make sure you aren't going to com out the other side before you get to your pickup cavity. If you remember your trigonometry and such, you can map this out before you even start cutting/drilling.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Strat: Best Way To Route Wire Channel For Top Horn Of Strat (No Cap) LP-Like

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Check that out. That's one way to do it, but you could also do the round route like an LP. First do your inset for the cover plate, then the rest of the routed channel. Measure 14 times before you drill. Then find the shortest line from the cavity to the pickup cavity. Mark this well, and then run your aircraft bit as close to level the back as your routed cavity will allow. Drill carefully toward the neck pickup. Check your angle of attack and make sure you aren't going to com out the other side before you get to your pickup cavity. If you remember your trigonometry and such, you can map this out before you even start cutting/drilling.

Ouch! Why not do that on the front of the guitar in the lower horn instead so the rout is covered by the pickguard?

Then just drill a little hole through the pickguard for the tip of the switch to come through and to tighten the nut that holds the switch in place?

That way, if you changed your mind about having the switch, a new pickguard would make it look "normal" again. Or if you hacked it up a bit, the pickguard would at least hide the mess.

I mean - if you're going to do it at all. Like I said, I wouldn't do it to my guitar - and I know what I'm doing and have a shop with all the tools.