This weekend I made the pickup cavities. I made an accurate drawing of the pickups to cut a template. However, I wasn’t satisfied with the first template, so I made another one. This took quite some time, but in the end, it came out pretty nice.

Then I drilled holes at the corners of the pickup cavities, because the wider router bit couldn’t reach into the corners. I then used my template to route the cavities. After routing I used a chisel and a file to clean up the cavities. The result is very clean and the pickups do fit exactly in those cavities! I am wondering if I will get shielding tape in there, but we’ll see…