I've said it before, Andy - That modified Goth of yours is really nice...
I totally agree with you about the switch looking better in the first position - I can see why you did this the other way on your Goth. I would probably do the same, if the knobs had been in a straight line and I were to rewire it the way you did.
In my eyes the original placement of the knobs on the Pro have always looked wrong... I think the placement on Mod 4 looks more natural, and are better aligned with the body shape.
On a side note, I've been planning to move the jacks to the side on all my other Epi birds, and add 3-way toggles in place of the old jacks.
I also thought about doing kill switches on them insted, but figured the holes from the output jacks would be too large for the usual small on-off toggles. So instead I'd put regular 3-way switches in there, as they seem to fit the bigger holes better.
Is your toggle a 3-way, wired as a kill switch?
Also did you mount your pickup rings directly to the body, or did you have to add some kind of spacer underneath to get the pickups close enough to the strings?
Thanks! I like this bass quite a bit. It's just heavier than I would like. I mounted the rings directly to the body. I didn't have any spacers and honestly don't know if the 70's Birds had spacers for the rings? Mark should know the answer to that. The pickups needed extra wood added underneath because the Epi pickup routes are so deep. Plus these are the guitar sized humbucker TBPlus inside the 70's covers so it needed some extra work to make things right in the cavity. BTW the rings aren't connected to the pickups at all, if that was what you were thinking. The pickups are adjusted by the 2 screws in the corners. Hope that answers your question.
My killswitch is a 2-way on/off switch that I took from a dead machine at work. It's like the killswitch on my BlackBird but this one is larger. I needed to enlarge the control hole for the killswitch but the input jack hole may be large enough as is?? My input jack area had been damaged so I couldn't say if the hole would have worked with a larger switch.
FWIW, I picked up an Epi bolt neck Bird off Craigslist for a friend of my daughters. It had been modded with a 3rd pickup right at the end of the fretboard. I took it to a tech that wired it with 3 vol and moved the input to the end of the body. He only had a small switch to use for a kill switch but he installed that in the original input hole. He needed to add a small chrome washer (not as big as the one on my switch) to cover all of the hole but it worked fine.
Hope all of this made sense!!
lol How the bass arrived Ugh!
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