OK..
I tooled around and got it working 'enough'... I still have to play with it.. but I am going to call this one a wrap.. it just has times it works better than others.. but at times it is indeed working.. *L*
Here is a gander a the final project.. although I didn't get her to snap any 'back side' photo's so you can see my battery issues in back.. right now it is partially housed in the trem cavity and that works fine for putzing around at hime, but I still need to route a tiny bit to get it right.
This guitar was the best of 3 guitars put together. At first I was going to use a different and much lighter and a scalloped neck with it, but as the body needed routed and I didn't want to do that to the nice body so I used this one as it is heavy and could afford to lose any weight it can.. the thing is a tank. Heavy Les Paul heavy. But it rings notes forever on it's own without the sustainer.. as a result of having to use this body I couldn't use the scalloped neck without shaving it a bit, and lord knows I didn't want to do that, so I was stuck with this body and one of two other necks. Like I say, the upside to being heavy is she does sing.
She doesn't really sound like a Strat.. more like a Paul at times, partially due to the humbuckers, and partially due to the weight. But with the Strat scale length and the action set as I do, it is 100 Percent Strat.
I will put up some sound clips in the next few days, now I have rigged it all together I want to lock myself away for a bit and get the hang of things.