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As for "when am I ready?" You'll never be ready. It works in reverse, you become ready by doing it. - pmbomb
If really too small you could strip back the ground from the pickup wires before the access hole and in the neck pickup cavity solder them to the braid/shield on the wire carrying the hot signal to the master volume.
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As for "when am I ready?" You'll never be ready. It works in reverse, you become ready by doing it. - pmbomb
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They drilled through the neck face straight through for the neck pickup and straight through again into the bridge cavity. So I would need to do the same with a larger bit to enlarge the hole... Annoying!! Going to need a really long drill bit for that...
I agree @Wez they should have channeled the mahogany before putting the cap on.
At this point, if it were my project, I would be widening out the hole from pickup cavity to switch, and introducing some form of channel around the pickup cavity, to ensure pickup will have a clean fit. Then I would be allowing that channel to intersect the hole for the wiring into the switch cavity, which will get complicated, and lastly, I would be checking any pickup surround screw did not go into any of these channels / holes.
Clearly, they didn't use a Deluxe / tele custom type of wiring route, or you would have a whopping great pickguard to contend with, neither did they use the usual LP style routed channel into the back before the top got glued on.
Really nice top on that, so a carefully thought out fix would be a good save, and some form of 4 conducter wire, plus ground and a bit of extra routing will be the neatest solution, look forward to seeing the progress.
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It looks like there is to be no pickup ring, so the rout currently looks very tight / neat, wood will need to be removed under the pickup to make some space.