TeleAx-3
This
is TeleAx #3! Another pre-painted Mighty Mite body. This time in quilt/ash.
TeleAx 3
is complete. I ran into a snag with the output jack circuit board.
They have changed it to rev. C and it is about 1-1/2" longer than the circuit board
that was in my Variax. My output jack was rev. B. The rev C circuit board sticks
up so far in the cavity that it hits the knobs if you use a standard Tele config. I had to
put the passive pot in the back to be able for it to work.
rev B is
on the left, rev C is on the right
One red
v-ax donor.
This is
the connector that runs to all of the pots and 5-way switch.
This is
the connector that runs to the battery pack.
This is the connector for
the bridge ribbon cable. It has a black lever on
the back side of it. Just flip the lever up and you can pull out the bridge ribbon cable.
After you have disconnected
all of the plugs from the circuit board,
unscrew the jack assembly and pull everything out the jack rout.
Test fit
to make sure everything will work.
After the
output jack rout has been cut.
Now drill
the bridge cable hole. It is 1/2". Drill down about 1/2" deep.
Now drill
a hole from the rear cavity at an angle to open up the top cable pass-through
hole. They should meet.
Here I
have the top re-taped and I'm ready to cut the bridge circuit board relief
pocket.
A good
shot of the output jack rout.
The
bridge pocket is cut. It needs to be an 1/8" deep or so.
I have
painted the circuit board cavity with shielding paint I got from
Stewart-MacDonald.
The
bridge is now mounted.
On this TeleAx, I have
connected the passive pickups to the unused side
of the Variax 5-way switch. This way you can use the existing Variax 5-way
switch to also select your passive pickup combinations when you have the
passives selected on the A/B switch. When you have the Variax selected on
the A/B, the 5-way works with your Variax tones as normal. This
does away with one mini-toggle like I have on Tele-Ax 2.
The
completed guitar.
The TeleAx 3 cavity w/ Variax circuit board
