| Bad slide switch
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I am fixing up dad's 1960s Japanese Hofner copy (an "Ideal") and have pretty much got it up to snuff... the wiring was shockingly bad but I have brought it to basically the original factory wiring of a real Hofner. However one final issue I'm not sure how to solve, besides replacement, is a bad switch for the neck pickup; it takes a real Fonzarelli maneuver to get the pickup to come on. I think the switch is probably on its last legs. Will any other on/on DPDT slide switch for a guitar do as a good replacement? Should I replace all three switches at once just to be consistent? (The switch knobs are cream colored and all I can find are black replacement parts.)
One thing about the dinky wiring I have actually left in the circuit is a dedicated cap to ground running off of each pickup, cutting some highs out of the signal before it reaches the DPDT switch. The tone is probably the most charming thing about this bass, fat and one-dimensional, and I'm not sure I want to mess with it.
p.s.: Just an interesting thing to note, this bass sounds very big but the pickups are only 3,000 ohms each! Yikes. | 
