It's all back together. I'm pleased with how it turned out, given I wasn't going for an "as new" refin, but trying to get to how it might have looked if someone had taken reasonable care of it and not sprayed black over the body, pickguard and pickups. The pickguard, varitone plate and trc are new, everything else is as I got it.
Since I took the pics I put GHS steel precision flats on and they suit it really well. Neck is amazing. Haven't had it in a band setting yet, but subject to that test, I love it.
Its interesting, for me at least, having stock pickups. The black 78 I've got, with the Kent Armstrong rebuild at the neck, sounds very different. Solo'd that KA sounds more like a mudbucker. It's useful, being able to swap from Cream to Nirvana with a twist of the chicken head. Don't think I'll get that from this one though.