I’m not really a fan of routers for this kind of work. The highly curved edge of a Stratocaster just isn’t suitable for routing unless you spend hourse building a jig, this job’s much easier with a good sharp chisel.
Roland don’t supply wood screws for the plate! Just used a few pickguard screws for now, to be replaced shortly. The routing inside made it ridiculously easy to pass the thick GK cabling into the control cavity.
I’ve abandoned the idea of a custom pickguard, too expensive and the guitar is so non-standard it’d be way too much trouble so I’m just going to cut this one to suit the GK stuff. The S1/S2 switching is going to be on a momentary action ON/OFF/ON switch, by far the best way to do this job. The GK/MAG switch can go in the place of the old coil tap switch, coil taps never sound good and this one’s no exception. Interestingly the Fender pickup is a 3-conductor humbucker, looks like the middle tap shorted to ground splits the coils. I’ll just be leaving that as a humbucker though, I’ve got plenty of single coil Strats for that sound.
Just a bit more chiselling needed to allow the GK pickup wires to pass into the cavity then we’re in business.
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