Marking Up The Guitar Body

Before the guitar could be painted and assembled, the holes for the tail-piece and bridge bushings needed to be drilled and additional a cavity for the touch screen cut out of the body. In order to accurately measure the touch pad cavity, it must first be removed from the main body of the unit.

The four connections between the PCB and touch screen from the KP-1 Service

 Manual

I began by removing the back of the kaoss pad, followed by the two large PCB's, the third small board containing the headphone volume control, and finally the touch screen itself.These four connections are wired via a ribbon cable which must be disconnected from the PCB.

The connection can be seen at the top of the unit in this picture.

All PCB's and touch screen removed from the unit casing

The ribbon cable was connected to the PCB through a small plastic jacket which I opened to disconnect the touch panel. I then had to de-solder the four connections of the remaining half of the jacket from the the PCB

The removed panel and half of the plastic jacket

Remaining half of the plastic jacket

De-soldered connections on the PCB

The jacket was then put back together to give something to solder connections to later in the build.

Having removed the touch panel, I was able to position and draw around it on the guitar body and work out the best positions for the bridge and tail piece.