The mailman strikes again!

Wow, just on my way out my neighbor stopped me with the magic words "Hey, I got another package for you!". Yes, another one, since whenever I order stuff, I'm not around when it gets delivered, and my poor neighbors have to be the ones to receive it. Guys, if you ever read this: Thanx a lot and I'm so sorry for the inconvenience!

But now, more important matters: what did the mailman bring this time? Well I consider it to be something of a special treat, since I've been waiting quite some time for these:

For the people who just see some stray bits and pieces, you're looking at a brand new EMG 60 active pickup and the wires and pots that go with it! And it's the one that is going to be my neck pickup. I also got an EMG 81 active pickup for the bridge position today, but since I expect the contents of that package to look exactly the same as the stuff shown above, I left it wrapped up, nice and safely, for I don't know when exactly I will be installing these.

One thing this will help me do right away, is finish de routing design for th body, because I now have the exact size of the pickups. As soon as I've finished that, I will pay my colleague Kees a visit and we will use his self made CNC router to route a template of the explorer body. This template I will take to the wood shop, to ensure the wood that I buy for the body will be of an adequate size to make the body.

So why EMGs? Well, the answer is quite simple: these are the exact pickups of the guitar I want the War Machine to resemble.