Hollowbody wiring harness :: Chubbuck Mousa 003

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Here I'm prewiring the electrical harness for Mousa 003.  Being a hollowbody without an access panel, the controls all go in through the treble side f hole.  To keep everything tidy, I prewire the harness as much as possible on a template.  This keeps the leads cleanly routed.  I don't want to look in through the f-hole and see a rat's nest (I see shoddy hollowbody wiring all the time - it looks like shit).  Now that the harness is ready, I can connect the pickup leads to the mini toggle switches, zip tie the wires and install it into the guitar.

The controls are master volume, master tone (both Bourns sealed 500k pots), Switchcraft 3 way toggle, mini toggle for neck series / split / parallel and another mini toggle for phase selection when both Lollar Imperial humbuckers pickups are on.  The tone cap is an Emerson Custom 0.022µf paper in oil.  Vintage style cloth wiring ties everything together.

Check out the video below from the daily vlog for the assembly of this harness.

Late 90's G&L ASAT [8.6 lbs] :: setup

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Late 90's G&L ASAT [8.6 lbs] setup

1978 Fender Tele Thinline [7.6 lbs] :: neck realignment

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1978 Fender Tele Thinline [7.6 lbs] :: neck realignment.

This Tele has the classic 70's 3-bolt neck joint and the neck was slightly biased to the treble side (the high e string was too close to the edge of the fingerboard).  The bolts were loosened and the neck shifted towards the bass side to correct this.  Tele Thinlines originally come with the wide range humbuckers but this one was modded years ago with Seymour Duncan SH-3 Stag Mag's with push-pull coil taps.

A video posted by Chubbuck Guitars (@kevin_chubbuck) on Jan 15, 2015 at 12:48pm PST

1987 Carvin DC-150 [7.1 lbs] :: refinish

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1987 Carvin DC-150 [7.1 lbs] :: refinish

This was a strip, refinish and covert to passive project that left the shop a few weeks ago.  A photo essay is over on the blog: http://www.chubbuckguitars.com/blog/2014/12/18/1987-carvin-dc-150-stripped-down-bursted

2009 Resurrection Eagle [9.8 lbs] :: flip pickups

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2009 Resurrection Eagle [9.8 lbs] :: flip pickups.

The guitar was previously wired so that the coil taps activated the bridge-side of each humbucker.  The player wanted a warmer single coil sound (coil tap on neck side), so the pickups were each rotated 180° (bass to treble).  I could have rewired each pickup but I did not want to splice in extra lead lengths.