This document provides templates and instructions for routing pickup cavities, control routes, and neck pockets on custom Telecaster guitars. It includes dimensions for P90 and humbucker pickup routes using various center lines. Instructions are provided for modifying existing pickguards to fit different bridge and tremolo configurations. Template dimensions are given for neck pockets, control cavities, pickup routes, and alignment holes.
This document provides templates and instructions for routing pickup cavities, control routes, and neck pockets on custom Telecaster guitars. It includes dimensions for P90 and humbucker pickup routes using various center lines. Instructions are provided for modifying existing pickguards to fit different bridge and tremolo configurations. Template dimensions are given for neck pockets, control cavities, pickup routes, and alignment holes.
This document provides templates and instructions for routing pickup cavities, control routes, and neck pockets on custom Telecaster guitars. It includes dimensions for P90 and humbucker pickup routes using various center lines. Instructions are provided for modifying existing pickguards to fit different bridge and tremolo configurations. Template dimensions are given for neck pockets, control cavities, pickup routes, and alignment holes.
This document provides templates and instructions for routing pickup cavities, control routes, and neck pockets on custom Telecaster guitars. It includes dimensions for P90 and humbucker pickup routes using various center lines. Instructions are provided for modifying existing pickguards to fit different bridge and tremolo configurations. Template dimensions are given for neck pockets, control cavities, pickup routes, and alignment holes.
25.5 the guard needs to be modified around the tremolo - see pickguards and classic player tele with tremolo Deluxe with Tele Neck Pocket - P90s shown in routes - marked for either a hardtail or tremolo
25.5 a file and sandpaper wrapped around a 1/2 drill bit to modify a store bought pickguard
if using a tremolo, the guard also
needs to be filed around the bridge plate - see pickguards
if you want P90 pick guard tight and even, get the pickup first and measure I believe I heard Lollar say that he can send a template for the pickguard with the pickups. as on previous page, P90s use the WRHB center lines
custom HH teles use same
WRHB center line for back p’up = same for center line for the neck as humbucker in the tele humbucker bridge plate the WRHB... same for the (see J5 model) american HH and HS
us fat p’up
mini-humbucker uses front edge of tele route.
in a youtube vid, Lollar does the same with the CC p’up
Custom HH teles have the bridge
p’up slightly forward ground wire
5/8 deep 1/4 up .19 thick lip 1”
11/16 Click here to go to TDPRI where file was posted
7/8 D x 2... or 3
block and use 1/2” router bit
1-3/8 R x 2 1”D 13/16 deep or drill to fit the toggle of your choice
1-1/4 D
as drawn.... the pocket is sized to leave
a 0.017” gap around the neck to allow for the thickness of the finish on both the neck 7/8 D and body. The pick guard is drawn .012 from the pocket and .005 from the neck. 1-3/8 deep to cover the jack hole 0.85” deep The inside corner radius of the pocket is go 1-1/2 if going jimmy page with the drawn as .267 (.25R of the neck + 0.017) push-pull switches The pickguard is drawn with the same .25 radius as the neck.. but .01 wider.
All of the above exists only in the world of
CAD, where you can zoom in... and CNC. WRHB routes and channels are the same depth as the neck pocket (which is usually around 5/8ths - 0.267 R = 0.534 D. 7/32 drill bit = 0.531250 1/16th shallower for higher action and vice versa) 0.25 p’up route corner radius from .5 bit if you have the neck in hand to block on Ideally, it’d make sense to have the channel and the template, cheap masking tape is about Neck alignment: p’up routes on the neck route template, but...... tick marks are for a 165 nut neck, 0.005” (5 mils). A few layers on the neck it might make more sense to have the deeper switch but even a 1.65 nut neck probably 17/32 D before blocking will give you a gap and control routes on the neck pocket template and won’t be excactly on when you p’up and channel routes on the body template as the put straight edge to it’s sides neck p’up routes are very close to the neck pocket and when aligning. could make for a weak area on the template. Using them as reference points block on lines should get it fairly straight. either way, you’ll want to route the deeper first, then the shallow (unless you want to make plugs to fill the existing shallow routes when routing the deeper) outer holes 3/8ths in from 2.0 x 1.5 outer end of pocket It could be that you end up switching templates a couple of times.
17/32 D
5-1/64 R 1-1/4 outer holes 0.4” from 1-7/8 outer end of pocket 3/8
