Once the neck was in place, I mounted the neck pickup into the pickguard, placed it loosely on top of the body, placed the control board and put the bridge into position.
Once everything was measured and aligned along the center line of neck and body, I marked all the holes that were to be drilled with a pencil.
I then carefully drilled the holes for the bridge mount, the control board and the pickguard with a handheld drill.
As I needed to carefully align the string through holes, I marked only the two outer positions for the high and low E strings, and drilled the holes with a drill press.
Then, in order to make sure that the holes are well aligned on the back, I turned the body around, and from the back side, using the bridge as a template, I marked the remaining four positions for the string through holes.
Again, very carefully, I used a drill press to drill those holes, making sure they are perfectly in line and perpendicular to the body.
This was the result (back and front):
I then used the press drill to drill the holes for the string through ferulles.
This is the result:
Once everything was measured and aligned along the center line of neck and body, I marked all the holes that were to be drilled with a pencil.
I then carefully drilled the holes for the bridge mount, the control board and the pickguard with a handheld drill.
Again, very carefully, I used a drill press to drill those holes, making sure they are perfectly in line and perpendicular to the body.
This was the result (back and front):
I then used the press drill to drill the holes for the string through ferulles.
This is the result:
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