Right we’re done. It was a little tricky fitting the loom with larger CTS pots into the cavity, however a little chisel surgery and she’s gone in fine.
The neck bolt kit has gone in without any challenges, it’s brought everything super tight to the body. In retrospect that was overkill, the quality of the neck and the pocket was fantastic, it was super tight already. However, this can’t hurt.
I’ve used the old pickup covers to save drilling new holes in the body, the new ones were a little slimmer.
I’ve fitted a set of flat wounds and it sounds great. The old pickup was distorting and sounded overdriven, it’s got a lovely warm tone now.
I need to make some minor adjustments to the action to level out the string heights in parallel with the fretboard radius and then I’m good to go.
I may have to put a smidge more foam under the pickups but that can wait for the short term. I want to give it a few months and see how I get on.