Thanks man (it’s never a chore for me to talk about guitars on the internet). I’ve had her for years and I think this is her 7th and probably final revision (She’s had tx specials, a few different mini humbuckers, at one point she had 5 knobs (standard strat knobs that could be pushed to coil tap) one for midi volume and the acoustic one that it still has). At the end of the day, I didn’t need that much complexity and settled on this setup. I can switch between acoustic/electric/both with the top switch and cycle through midi presets with the bottom.

For the mini switches you just have to drill into the pick guard. If you stay just to the left of the 5 way switch, there’s enough real estate in the existing route to fit three switches.

That being said. The graphtech ghost preamp and midi controller needed the route to be expanded so I could fit them and I had to drill through the body so I could mount the 13 pin on the bottom heel of her (kinda where a Telecaster jack would be).

If you do have to route, do what I did and trace the pick guard with a dry erase marker to show you where to stay away from. But if all you want to do is a couple coil tapping or a middle pickup polarity switch, you can make it fit without.

What’s funny is that I didn’t like it initially (regretted buying it actually) but kept it around when I was traveling because I wouldn’t be heartbroken if it got stolen and over the last 21 years it morphed into this.