I had this.
It was nice - the tones were superb, and after much tweaking and a fairly heavy shim, playability was pretty decent, too. The wiring was messy (first time) and there were noise issues and intermittent faults after several months of playing, and alas it was broken down again.
Now, it looks like this.
Just needs a couple more clear coats of Wudtone satin, then I can put it together for real and solder it back up.
Really like how it looks now, blingy but smart. The neck is the only thing I'd change - I'd love to refinish it because it's a beautiful, heavily flamed neck but it's got quite a thick finish on. I'm going to sand the back of it down a fair bit to give me a more satin surface to play on, and may try the same with the frets. Or, I may go the Warmoth route and buy a new neck for it.
I've raised the saddles up pretty high, so I'm not anticipating too many set up issues. I'm just very excited - it needs two or three more top coats, really, so it should be all ready in about a week.
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Also, as it was my first, although okay from a distance, it was quite rough. This one is nicer finished, though I've started some early "relic" work by accidentally dropping it and slipping with a screwdriver...
The hardware is all gold, so relics easily.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
So, I took the plate off and have tested it. I get output from the neck on its own and the middle on it's own but the switch is wired the wrong way?! I thought they were symmetrical but the down position chooses the neck (even though the neck output is at the top of the switch).
The middle position of the two single coils is silent. Nothing at all.
The bridge pickup works with both neck and middle, but is humbucker only when in the middle position.
I think the toggle was grounding on the guitar too, as more things work more normally now the plate is out.
Have I been a massive bag of dickhead and wired the blade switch backwards?
I'll see if I can get a photo or two. You get to see my horrendous wiring actually it's not awful, just not as tidy as a pro I guess.
Flickr won't work for me though...