Love it so far, not sure on that pickup cut out, looks like a nibbles was used.
So, you wear gloves to protect your hands but bare feet? You repeal the law of gravity?
Your toes, their length? Used to live in a tree?
Seriously, all in jest. Liking this so far.
You had me belly laughing in the car with this response!
My toes are pretty long- This is not the first time I've received feedback on them lol
Thanks for the kind words and the humor as well!
We've Another update-
And I've really done it this time... Long story short, while attempting to resolder the wire back to the pickup terminal (not the coil wire, the lead going to the pot), I employed what I thought was somewhat proper technique. However, not realizing that the bobbin was some cheap plastic- (Squier- duh), I melted the corner of the bobbin away before the terminal was hot enough to run the solder onto it.
I tinkered with the mess I had created for a while, scrambling to try and somehow heat the terminal enough to get the solder to take while simultaneously trying to leave the coil wire attached, but to no avail. Eventually, the coil wire came loose from the terminal. "Great!" I thought; "Now I have an opportunity to try/learn/fail at reconnecting the coil wire to the terminal!"
As you've probably already guessed- no dice. I ended up unwinding a couple wraps of wire in a humorously feeble attempt to fix the damage I had done. After spending about half an hour of making things objectively worse, I cut my losses, stumbled across a classified listing for some pickups, and bought myself a fender noiseless jazz bridge pickup... complete with two functioning wire leads: First quality upgrade executed!
In addition to this tumult, I received the pick guard from WD music and came to the realization that I overlooked the diameter of the threads on the pots. These little Squier pots are tiny, and the threaded portion is smaller than the pick guard holes (I believe the PG holes are 3/8) so, now I need a set of pots. I have a local builder who lives less than 2 miles from me so I'm hoping to be able to get in touch with him to just snag the pots locally. Else, I'll have to place another order, and wait for another shipment which I really don't feel like doing. I suppose if I had gone about this more methodically, I wouldn't be in this situation but hey, at least I'm learning!
I'm VERY tempted to simply order a prewired jazz bass wiring harness with the 2 volumes and 1 tone pot so I can just drop it in. But those things are often wired without much or any room to move the pots away from each other which is what would be required on the p bass pickguard, so maybe a better option is a kit that isn't already wired. This way I can actually solder everything up myself and get some experience doing that; I'm not the best with a soldering iron but I can make it happen.
Anywho- I took off from work today since I have a good amount of PTO through which I need to burn before the end of the year, so I'm going to hit the garage and get the final coats of stain on the body.
Thanks for tuning in!
