You said the most important thing, it plays and sounds good! That's really all that matters!
I'm no expert but it looks like alder to me, and the seam is perfectly normal. In fact, I believe some were even made in three or four pieces too.
I did it to my older CE24 that has hfs and gb pickups. I think they sound pretty good. But your opinion may vary.
I took the rotary out and put a three way toggle, put a push pull pot in both volume and tone positions so as to be able to split independently. And I also used the resistors...
Just came into my subs. Thought it was pretty cool to see an early PRS.
https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/26480-axes-artifacts-nancy-wilsons-1978-prs-12-string?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=PGN%20-%20110418&utm_term=PG%20Weekly
Man! I was supposed to go but something came up, so now I won't be able to come. Have a great time everyone, and please don't forget us who couldn't come! Take lots of pics!
I can't really tell for sure, but on your push pull pot, the part with the six lugs, is any of the solder from each lug touching the other solder or lugs? Not trying to knock your work because I'm certainly no expert, but you really don't need so much solder on those lugs. If any of them are...
Also looks like the output jack is connected to the volume pot casing. It is supposed to be on the middle lug of the volume pot. That's the real thick black wire
It's kinda hard to see real clear, but one thing I notice, is that it looks like your ground wire and tone cap wire need to be swapped on the tone pot. I'm referring to the yellow wire and the ground wire next to it. According to the schematic your yellow tone cap wire should be from center lug...
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