Asuza 'FRANKY' question ?

[Tone Slinger]

Does anyone know if the famous routing (hack job, but cool) was like that when the guitar was B&W and had the black pick guard ? Did Ed take more pick up rout wood out after that (B&W era) ?

[rgorke]

No knows for sure but I would guess that it was pretty much "routed out" when it was white with black stripes.

[garbeaj]

I'm sure it was...the purpose of the "hack-job" was to seat the humbucking pickup. Even though the guitar had his hand cut black pickguard on it, he still had to rout for the humbucker.

[stef]

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[Tone Slinger]

Azusa, you sure not maybe ISUZU ?

Thanks guy's, I was wondering about this, since you dont really want to get TOO close to the 6 screw holes (or the two post for floyds). Too close leaves too little wood where it is most needed (under & around the bridge) for tone and resonance.

Ed got fairly close. I'm homing in on a KNE Asuza body order. Thanks all

[MrBeasty]

We could speculate that the middle pick-up was untouched until Ed tried to jam a tele bridge pick-up in the middle position.
That is not something we'll probably ever know ... The bridge was routed for the humbucker and it was already screwed directly to the body. The pickguard only held the volume pot.