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Step 11More Drilling
The hard stuff is out of the way!
Place a 1" forstner bit into the drill press. Raise the bed back up and re-clamp the body in the vice so that you can drill straight down into the spot where the extremely long hole begins, but not following the direction of the hole. This will be for our output jack.
Drill a hole about 1" deep at this location. Place your 1/4" jack into the jack plate and see if it fits. If all is good, pull the body out of the vice.
Re-assemble the pickups into their housings, and place them in their respective pockets with the wires balled up beneath them. Mark the four corner mounting holes for them with a pencil. Drill holes of 3/32" diameter for the pickup screws.
Using a 3/8" drill bit in a cordless drill, drill a sloped hole from one pickup pocket to the other. Take note of the shape of your pickups and the location of the wires to determine where this hole should be.
Drill the mounting holes for the back plate and jack plate now as well.
Pick spots for the strap pins (normally above the neck and at the very back) and drill 3/32" holes to mount them in later.
Place the tail piece and bridge in place, bolt on the neck and test out the guitar with strings tuned to tension. If it doesn't break, great!
Place a 1" forstner bit into the drill press. Raise the bed back up and re-clamp the body in the vice so that you can drill straight down into the spot where the extremely long hole begins, but not following the direction of the hole. This will be for our output jack.
Drill a hole about 1" deep at this location. Place your 1/4" jack into the jack plate and see if it fits. If all is good, pull the body out of the vice.
Re-assemble the pickups into their housings, and place them in their respective pockets with the wires balled up beneath them. Mark the four corner mounting holes for them with a pencil. Drill holes of 3/32" diameter for the pickup screws.
Using a 3/8" drill bit in a cordless drill, drill a sloped hole from one pickup pocket to the other. Take note of the shape of your pickups and the location of the wires to determine where this hole should be.
Drill the mounting holes for the back plate and jack plate now as well.
Pick spots for the strap pins (normally above the neck and at the very back) and drill 3/32" holes to mount them in later.
Place the tail piece and bridge in place, bolt on the neck and test out the guitar with strings tuned to tension. If it doesn't break, great!
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