OK, finally put her together yesterday.
First, here is the pick guard all wired up. I used Wizz 1960-1963 Fender single coil replica pickups and the Duncan RTM in the bridge. One volume, One tone - both 250K. That is a WIMA poly .047 uF cap on the tone. Left the pot position right by the bridge pickup empty as you can see - kind of annoying on a strat to me. I split the Duncan RTM in position 4 on the 5 way switch and paired it with the middle pickup. The middle pickup is RW/RP, so position 2 is hum canceling. Now, when I talked to the guy at Wizz, he told me to flip the magnet in the RTM and so I did that before assembling. BUMMER! Turned out THAT was the out of phase setting and position 4 sounded really weak and shitty, so I had to take the thing apart again to put the magnet back in the way it was originally!
Lesson learned - try it first, then change if you need to...
After the flip, position 4 sounds great, but is not hum canceling. It's a polarity issue, but the only way to fix it that I know of is to switch the wires so that the screw coil is used in the RTM in position 4, but I prefer the sound of the slug coil paired with the middle pickup. Hum is very minor anyway - no problem really...
Guitar sounds great and plays great. Old school Floyd in combination with the locking tuners stays in tune just as good as with a locknut on this guitar - very cool! There is a minor issue with the 2nd and 3rd frets buzzing on the G and B strings, which is fairly common with these third party necks when they are new. I don't do fret work, so I'll take it to my repair guy to fix the issue and intonate the guitar (didn't bother since I knew I had to bring it to my repair guy for the fret issue).
Anyway, I like the RTM so far and the Wizz single coils are killer! This thing came out just as I imagined it. The MJT guys are amazing - highly recommended! Here are some final pics:
And one more in her new home in my studio
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Steve
I would, but they still haven't shipped it yet. Those pics are from MJT. Hopefully, I'll have it next week and the next pics you see will be the fully assembled guitar. Once I get it, we're only talking' a couple hours to get her slapped together and set up...
Nice move skipping the original volume hole and moving it down.
