Players tele control cavity

[TunedupFlat]

I'd like to declare shenanigans. Or at least vent a little.

I've seen lots of funny routes in my time working on telecasters, but this would be the first time my cavity's depth is the main issue..

The rear of the cavity's depth is not enough to swap the control plate around. . Boo urns Fender...
Now I have to either just stick to having the switch up front or get the router out and fix you...

Route or leave it?

 

[SnidelyWhiplash]

It's your guitar, but once you start to route, there's no going back...

 

[blackieNYC]

Is that a ground screw into conductive paint I see?

 

[bobio]

Route it out I do that with nearly every body I use in my Partscasters.
The Toneshaper solderless electronics I use won't fit in a lot of cases.



Here is my latest, it is a Player body and I routed the bottom of the control cavity flush.
I also did some touchup routing on the neck cavity to deepen it a bit.

 

[TunedupFlat]

Is that a ground screw into conductive paint I see?

It is. Not sure how effective fenders conductive paint is.. but at least they tried.

 

[Steve Holt]

Booo urns...Booo urns!

Route it and be done.

 

[TunedupFlat]

It will be this weekends project!

 

[AAT65]

That’s standard these days. The CNC machines are set up to only rout out what needs routing: saves time, saves money, makes Fender shareholders happy, most guitar owners will never know.
I put a Callaham control plate on my Elite Tele to gain a few JM of space between switch and volume control: I had to dremel some wood out of the floor of the control route to move the volume pot. (But it was worth it!)

 

[Fendereedo]

You're lucky both my Vintera Tele's don't have any shielding at all.

 

[TunedupFlat]

You're lucky both my Vintera Tele's don't have any shielding at all.

Everything I have is unshielded and has worked just fine for the 30+ years I have played electric guitar.

This supposedly shielded telecaster, by far was the noisiest of everything that I have

 

[Fendereedo]

Everything I have is unshielded and has worked just fine for the 30+ years I have played electric guitar.

This supposedly shielded telecaster, by far was the noisiest of everything that I have

I ended up copper shielding mine anyway.

 

[TunedupFlat]

Routing done and control plate flipped!
And just for fun a 53 tapped tele bridge pickup with the 4 way switch set to neck, neck/bridge low tap, bridge low tap, bridge high tap.