Now that the old holes are filled and a centre line accurately established its time to work out exactly where the holes for the new pickup rings should be.

Using tape to protect the guitar top and some more tape to keep everything in place very gently drill the new holes.

To make sure to top doesn’t get damaged while feeding in lots of wire, pickups and switches etc (which all have nasty sharp edges) I like to use old newspaper.

Things never seem to quite go as planned.  Thought I had it all sorted only to find the old pots has slightly smaller shafts so had to gently make the holes slightly bigger.

It’s also a bit like key-hole surgery trying to feed all that wiring through the pickup holes and into place.

After a little fiddling around finally got everything where it needs to be.

Next job fit the rest of the hardware and complete the setup.  Keep watching to see how it looks with strings.

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