{"id":77,"date":"2009-07-01T18:14:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T22:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/?p=77"},"modified":"2012-04-12T18:16:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T22:16:47","slug":"i-might-need-a-shoehorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"I might need a shoehorn."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was really expecting to have some more pictures by now &#8211; things in clamps, oozing with glue, etc., but I just hit the first of what will probably be several snags along the way.\u00a0 As of today, no additional wood has been cut for the guitar.\u00a0 Ron and the rest of the Alembic electronics team have been sitting around trying to figure out how to get the custom electronics compliment to fit in to the body!\u00a0 Apparently, nobody has asked for my exact combination of electronics to fit in this body shape.<\/p>\n<p>They think they\u2019ll have some answers for me by the end of the week, but some options to get everything to work right include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make the body shape slightly bigger &#8211; Even though they say I would never notice the increased size unless they told me, I\u2019m not sure I want to do that just yet.<\/li>\n<li>Have Alembic hardwire some of the electrical connections, instead of using modular connectors &#8211; Alembic usually uses modular connectors in their wiring schemes, to make servicing easy.\u00a0 These connectors take up space, though, and space is at a premium in the body cavity.\u00a0 Since I\u2019m handy with a soldering iron, I\u2019m pretty confident that this option could work&#8230; but will it yield enough space.<\/li>\n<li>Simplify the electronics compliment &#8211; surprisingly, I\u2019m open to this option.\u00a0 The Alembic electronics afford a lot of pickup combinations (typically 27!), and I\u2019m not so sure I need to tweak at that level.\u00a0 It\u2019s more important to me to quickly dial in the sound I want.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to talk with Alembic today, and give them my thoughts on this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">In order to test out the placement of electronics, Alembic is using a dummy body, the same size and shape I originally called for.\u00a0 Smartly, they don\u2019t want to cut the wood I selected until they are absolutely sure everything is going to fit!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was really expecting to have some more pictures by now &#8211; things in clamps, oozing with glue, etc., but I just hit the first of what will probably be several snags along the way.\u00a0 As of today, no additional &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/?p=77\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}