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The jack is shot. If you saw my soldering "skills", you'd know why it has to go to the shop.
When I play(ed) my 5er, I basically use(d) the B string as an extended thumb rest until I needed an Eb or lower.
I don't have any soldering skills because I don't use solder he he.
The mounting for the jack is different from anything I've ever seen. Rather than get it apart and eff something up, I'll take it to a pro and let her* eff it up.
No, a lady who does mostly folk-y type music and owns the best shop in the area(West Palm Beach, FL).
Don't often find ladies doing wiring stuff, not that I've encountered anyhow. Good stuff
Interesting because women did the majority of electronic work starting around WWII because men were off to war......my aunt worked at Bendix for the govt contracts during & after WWII...They never knew what part they were building but she said mainly women doing soldering etc...she was very good at wedding dresses as well.
Things I jettisoned from a previous office move included a whole bunch of photos of back-in-the-day IBM stuff showing old school computing equipment being built and assembled with the majority of the work being done by women. Original memory for mainframes back when, the actual origin of the term "core memory", was hundreds or thousands of little tiny ferrite rings (cores) strung through with fine wires; the stringing of these cores was done almost exclusively by women as far as I know. Wish I still had all the pics but even a packrat like me has limits and that was 3 moves ago!
Yea.... interesting about my Aunt, her husband was a minor league baseball player, she made more money than he did...he worked on the family farm in the off season and his body was broken down by the time he was 50, rather badly too.
Post the pix after you get her out of the box. I have a Blonde SG Bass and I love the sound and weight.I bought a new SG bass but that's not what this post is about. It's about how I bought it yesterday at 6 a.m. pacific time form Sweetwater in Indiana and it was delivered to me at 10 a.m. pacific time today. For $119 FedEx express overnight. 28 hours. Amazing. and for only $120...unbelievable. I wish I could get those kinds of shipping rates but then I don't ship hundreds of things every month.
It's sitting in the box for 24 hours as I head off to a gig in a couple of hours. I figured I would heed the warning for the first time in my life.
All of my design prototypes were wire-wrapped. And I had to lay out my own 2-sided PCBs with tape on a light table. Back before surface mount ICs existed. Current design engineers would look at that as stone age.
I bought a new SG bass but that's not what this post is about. It's about how I bought it yesterday at 6 a.m. pacific time form Sweetwater in Indiana and it was delivered to me at 10 a.m. pacific time today. For $119 FedEx express overnight. 28 hours. Amazing. and for only $120...unbelievable. I wish I could get those kinds of shipping rates but then I don't ship hundreds of things every month.
It's sitting in the box for 24 hours as I head off to a gig in a couple of hours. I figured I would heed the warning for the first time in my life.
The SG tends to lean forward a bit but not uncomfortably so. I am sure many of you know what the heck I'm talking about. 
. Anyway, the band loved the tone through the Fender TV amp and I'm gonna put some flats on it soon. Anybody know what strings come stock on these things? Awesome case too.
