I've been slowly hand-sanding the body. I'm trying to avoid using my Mouse sander as a lot of things I've worked on have the telltale oscillating-particle scratch marks in the surface! I also blew out some of the finer detail on the Epiphone EB-1 body and neck by dwelling too long with the Mouse.
Doing it all by hand is a fairly painstaking process, but I'm hoping the results look better for it. I have a couple of pesky scorch marks in the wood from the head gun I used, so I might have to bleach these out.
I've started work on getting the Dimarzio Model One installed!
This is prep for routing out the cavity. I used a cordless drill and 16 mm forstner bit to hog out the cavity here. I will then tidy up with a router. Being a square 'brick' of a pickup I imagine I will have to shape the very corners of the route with a chisel?
Beyond this, I've replaced the polepieces in both the 'PAF' Model P and Model One with black hex screws so that they match! I tried some stainless screws in the Model P but they didn't carry much magnetic charge to the top of the pickup. I would rather have all the poles matching, so black it is!