As you can see by the photos, I have shielded the pickup cavity. I also plan to shield the underside of the pickguard, replace all the electronics with quality parts and rewire the entire thing.
 

Popcorn is popping!
Do you have any audio from before to compare to the after when completed?
I love threads like these

No, I didn't think to record it, but I still could since I have not done disabled the pick guard and rewired it yet.

very nice.  good hobby.  
 

Nekro-DtoF
 
How much you got in shielding?
 

I used this for shielding.
Amazon.com: Copper Tape Conductive Adhesive [1 inch x 12 Yards] Copper Foil Tape for Guitar and EMI Shielding Barrier, Soldering, Jewelry, Circuits, PCB Pad Repair, Electronics - Stained Glass Metal Tape: Home Improvement

Anything custom in increments makes it way more memorable. I am impressed. Bold to be digging into a new field shows your thirst for knowledge.
Deffinalty looking forward to following your progress.

Nekro-DtoF
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Being left handed gives me minimal options sadly
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As a fellow left-handed individual, I agree. I resorted to learning right-handed *sighs*

- I recommend many that have asked me if they should learn lefty...i tell them no lol
then they say...but im lefty. I tell them...ur body doesn't know left from right on playing a guitar lol learn right handed and dont frustrate urself that theres no options out there lol
 
Tweaked- Any chance you didn't over heat volume pot?
Them things are delicate lol

 
 

Lot of good info here, not sure if it will hep you or not.
https://seymourduncan.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035611594-Guitar-Wiring-Course
 
I been thinking about getting a HSS super strat. I have a Ibanez LesPaul knockoff and a SG
Maybe I'll stimulate Sweet Water Sound when/if another stimulus check comes.
 

I got the volume working properly. It was a bad ground on the outer lug of the pot.

Good work!

So, I figured out the issue with the string slot height. It really wasn't the string slots. The nut slot was not cut perfectly flat, so the nut was not resting on the flat bottom, instead the slot narrowed from top to bottom causing the nut to be wedged slightly above the flat surface. Also, the bottom was not completely flat, so I had to file that down a bit. 
 
Still fighting with that Bridge/Middle position wiring. I've tried reversing the wiring on the middle pickup and that fixed the bridge/middle position, but caused the neck/middle to sound bad so I put it back the way it was. I then tried reversing the wiring on the humbucker, but that had the same issue as before. There are a ton of wiring diagrams on the internet, so I'm going to try a few more to see if I can find a sound I like.

Keep up the good work it will be awesome when your done!

What radius is the fretboard? I was gonna ask maybe the nut or bridge isn't matching the rest of the neck radius

Good stuff, and yeah wiring is always my least favorite part of any build, be it PC or guitar 
 
I'm redoing a guitar of mine too as coincidence would have it. This was a old BC Rich Warlock Platinum that I got over 20 years ago back when I was still playing in a band. This thing was used and abused but I still love it, the way it sounds and plays. But I recently stripped it down and am redoing the paint and upgrading the hardware.
 
It's the guitar on the bottom in this pic that I'm redoing.

 
I'm going for a cosmic look with it, but more just kinda abstract.

wmmills
@Tweaked: You wanna really make that cheap guitar sing.....buy a new neck for a neck-thru design!   Maybe even add a new rare wood layer to the whole body too.

lol buying a neck-thru would mean a whole new guitar since his is a bolt-on