Whilst the sanding is progressing at a slow and steady pace, I thought I'd stick up a few photos of the components....
Flying V truss rod cover.
As an explorer headstock looked a bit oversize on the small lapsteel body, I went with an Flying V headstock instead and so to keep with the 50's look I got a white and gold V truss rod cover.
Nut
A 15 x 15 x 3 aluminium angle. This has yet to be drilled and will have the slots cut near the end of the project, when everything is complete. I might change this for a brass angle to match the gold hardware...
Pick-Up
I bought a second hand Gibson 'Signature Series' bridge humbucker of of Ebay, not sure whose signature it is though?! This humbucker has the old style single wire. It was a good deal for a nice pick-up but it was in a chrome cover, so I bought a matching gold one and will swap it over.
Pick-Up Surround.
Flat base pick-up surround.
Bridge
An adjustable gold finish wrap-around bridge. This was a better choice than the normal Explorer abr type bridge as it would take up less space as I want to keep the size of the lapsteel to a minimum.
Knobs & Pots
Standard Gibson style gold knobs. I originally bought standard 500k pots but I bought some miniature ones too, so I can keep the control cavity as small as possible. The mini pots are 250k, but I'm not sure what difference this would make to the sound?
More hardware...
Bag full of bits - Bridge studs, jack plate and screws - all gold!
Pick-up bits
Connection wire and some new gold pole-piece screws to match the new gold pick-up cover.
Plus some dot inlays for the fret board.
Switch
A nice Les Paul type switch with an aged plastic tip. Although this guitar only has 1 pick-up, I want to keep the switch so that the guitar looks a bit more authentic and so that I can coil tap the humbucker. I want to wire up the switch to give SERIES / PARALLEL / SINGLE coil options. Unfortunately, I think this switch is too long to fit inside the cavity I've made, so I might have to get a replacement...
A nice Les Paul type switch with an aged plastic tip. Although this guitar only has 1 pick-up, I want to keep the switch so that the guitar looks a bit more authentic and so that I can coil tap the humbucker. I want to wire up the switch to give SERIES / PARALLEL / SINGLE coil options. Unfortunately, I think this switch is too long to fit inside the cavity I've made, so I might have to get a replacement...
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