build a custom electric guitar

Step 3 Componet resting spots

the componets need to be IN the guitar so you need to cut a place for them I used the 3/4" piece to cut into (more space see picture) the plexi glass pieces will rest on top of the holes. after cutting the plexi glass to the shape desired place them where you want them to go now take a drill bit and drill holes in both the plexi glass and the the wood ( these holes are for the screws to hold the plexi to the wood) during this step you should also dremel a pathway from the hum bucks to the componets to do this I used my dremel tool along with a drill bit. I made a line / cut with the dremel and a straight edge. then I placed the needed wires in the cut then glued the 1/2" piece on top. (also w/ the 3/4" you need to cut a place for the Neck of the guitar!!!!)

Comments

[diy-guitar-guy]

i have a really bad idea, could you take an icelolly stic or summin like that and attach the two single coils together and put a new hole in and make a humbucker?

[TheMadTinker]

Those are actually single-coil pickups, not humbuckers. A humbucker is a pickup that (most often) looks like two single-coil pickups stuck together. The reason they are called humbuckers is that they cancel (or buck) the 60Hz hum that a single-coil pickup will produce when plugged in to an amplifier by adding together two signals that are out of phase with each other. Also, with single-coil pickups, 500K pots (those are the "knobs") are way overkill; for single-coil pickups 250K pots are preferred. If those were actual humbuckers (which a Les Paul-style schematic assumes) then 500K is the way to go. I'm sure that if you're using all the hardware that came with your guitar you should be fine, but if you're putting things together yourself, then you should be aware of these sorts of things.

[slimguy379]

dude read the comments on the FIRST page, god damn!!

[bobbyderf123]

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