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Permalink Reply by darryl kernaghan on October 16, 2016 at 5:21pm

You can do either, but it will reduce the plates resonance a little, can you lift the neck just a little to let the board float over the plate without touching? Or even take a little off the underside of the fretboard where it goes over the plate. If i was to do either of your 2 choices, i'd probably go for cutting the plate, and coming up with some way of making it look ok, maybe something like a contrasting colour mesh glued under the plate, and use it as a soundhole by making it a little wider and longer than the necks footprint, that's just my take, someone might have a better idea

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Nemiroff on October 17, 2016 at 4:04am

Ok, great idea.  I pretty much did that last night.  What I did was NOT glue the portion of the fret-board that will go over the license plate.  Actually, I slid the license plate under while the rest was glued.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Nemiroff on October 17, 2016 at 4:03am

Ok, great.  That is very close to what was in my mind.

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Permalink Reply by ChickenboneJohn on October 16, 2016 at 6:54pm

Let the fretboard overhang onto the plate by a fret or two. Setting the neck in the box so that the fretboard has a little bit of height above the top of the box is always a good idea as then it will give you a decent bridge height and a good string break angle over it.

Don't cut the plate, you are only making unncecessary work for yourself.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Nemiroff on October 17, 2016 at 4:25am

Great, thanks!  Just built of the neck exactly this way.

Regarding cutting the plate, I plan on putting in a mini-humbucker at the neck and another at the bridge.  I assume I need to cut the plate for this?

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Nemiroff on October 17, 2016 at 5:21am

Hmm, tempting.  What size would you recommend for a license plate guitar?   

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Nemiroff on October 17, 2016 at 7:25am

Ok, your promotion worked.  I bought the CBG rocker.

I assume, with the 1 humbucker, I mount this in front of the bridge?  Sorry for dumb question, I've never mounted a pickup before.  My previous CBG has a dual-piezo design though.

I also assume you provide some wiring diagrams for a volume and tone knob?

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Nemiroff on October 17, 2016 at 10:21am

Thanks!  What size cap do you use on the tone pot?

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Nemiroff on October 17, 2016 at 10:43am

Thanks.  Did a little research and 0.022uf is for humbucker and 0.047 is for a single coil of bass.  Makes sense since bass/single coil are lower freq.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Nemiroff on November 2, 2016 at 5:56am

Ok, finished with 1 mistake I need to cover up: the tone pot was initially drilled too close.  I need to find something to cover that hole.

Another issue is the neck is too long, getting string buzz.

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Permalink Reply by JL on November 2, 2016 at 6:25am

Looks beautiful.

String buzz is not caused by how long the neck is, check your action height and neck relief..

As for the extra hole, one idea...put 2 more  right close, dimple the edges of all 3 inward, make them 'bullet holes', like someone used the shield part of the plate to sight in their hunting rifle.....

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Nemiroff on November 2, 2016 at 9:59am

Thanks!  The reason I think the neck length is affecting buzz is because there is some bow.  I assume the bow would be less if the neck was shorter?  I will check the neck relief.

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