Always wanted to build Marauder guitar but couldn't find any info or plans, or even a decent picture to make my own. Than, I found this forum,
and mr. Stereoordinary's thread. Boy, was I happy!So I get started; pressed my friend to draw me a plans from pictures in stereo's thread and than cut some wood:
Have no idea how original routing looks like so I came up with my own "design":
Four switch plate was the 1st problem I encounterd; I've tried to contact French luthier Atelkof who makes them, but his favourite song was "No replay" from The Beatles.
So, with a little help of CorelDraw
and some CNC work I get this:
I still have to find the way to get them chrome plated, but they look very nice and sturdy. Upper one is Jag style and came from e-bay.
Those brown plates are pickup bobin parts. "Original" Marauder pickups looked something like this:
Not yet decided what kind of pickups I will use, "marauder" or start style, but I definitely will use Neodymium pole pieces instead of AlNiCo 'cause they are much, much stronger and (I think) will work great concealed under the pickguard. Here is finished bobin:
Tomorrow, I'll wind the pickup to vintage strat neck specs and test it; today I only managed to do strat one:
That's all for now. English is not my native language (I'm Croatian) so I apologize for possible mistakes. (oh man, can I type
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