Nickel n Gold musical chairs...

January is always a tough month, and with the project 3# on the go , I've been scratching my head as to how/what to fit into the routes..

I've got 3 awesome humbuckers , but none of them are trembuckers or F-spaced...thats not the end of the world..but...it's just that much off that it's annoying...the dirty fingers is running against a fender bridge and works...but at the same time its twice the power of the burstbucker..

The options out on fleabay are numerous and the humbuckers I wanted are apparently rarely come up...an el diablo seymour duncan for a start..

Then of course, the SRV neck has gold tuners...so..I removed all the gold hardware from the white S/H and replaced all the gold parts on that guitar to nickel/chrome hardware...sounds easy and is...but takes time..and on the new 3T body I had to line up the holes correctly for the bridge, the pick guard and rear cover..the Fender original bridge went in and was replaced by another nickel bridge I had in my parts case..without saddles...

So...I made the call to use the original Fender 77 pickups complete in the pick guard and drop it in the 3T body..the gold output jack was taken out white, the nickel output jack from the 77 hard tail went into the whitey...

Now, the reason I'm stripping the 77 Hardtail is basically because I never use the guitar as she is a real porker..typical late 70's anchor...She will be cased and one day everything will be replaced again, but there are too many parts on her to just be not played..

So, the project #3T is almost ready to plug n play...really great weight from the swamp ash body which imo is the secret of getting a great tone from a strat..

And Whitey just awaiting a few parts that are borrowed so now require replacing..but I used the saddles from the hardtail bridge and they fitted nicely..

I'll probably use the tuners from the 77 as well for the 73 Blackie that is currently out on loan...

Kitchens been busy today...