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Now I need to route the control and pickup cavities. The plan is to make a universal route for the neck pickup so that I can install different types of pickups without needing to re-route the cavity. The drawing on the right shows the proposed routing plan.

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Here I've transferred the template to MDF. I decided to make one template, but I'll have to move it to route both cavities.

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Drilling the corners out before cutting makes for a cleaner template.

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The scroll saw is great for cutting out the rest of the waste.

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All they need now is a little clean up with a file.

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I've used the drill press to do the bulk of the waste removal.

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Here's what it looks like after routing with the templates.

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I could drill the wiring channel for the neck pickup directly to the control cavity, but I decided to route it through the bridge pickup cavity.

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Its a much shorter trip from the bridge pickup to the control cavity.

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Next I route a cavity on the back for the jack plate. (Hmm, my shop camera seems to be on the fritz!?)

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This next part is not for the faint of heart. I need to drill a wire channel from the jack cavity on the back to the control cavity on the front. It would be disastrous at this stage to miscalculate and come up somwhere other than the control cavity!

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Perfect!

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I do a quick test fit with the neck and pickups, mostly to make sure the neck pickup fits properly. It actually doesn't (the mounting tabs for the lipstick don't quite fit). So since this is a prototype, I make a quick fix with the drill press. If I go on to build more of these, I'll modify the templates :)

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Now everything fits nicely.

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