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The solder on the bridge volume pot ground doesn't look good. I would start checking continuity across all your solder joints and reflow any that don't read correctly.

What is the guitar / pickup configuration? 2 Vol, but an extra DPDT, ok. 490R neck, and ...? Yeah the switches are completely independent of the pot they are on, so they can do anything a switch can do, (as long as you can remember what it does while you are playing.) FWIW not really a...

"The Streetbeater" by Quincy Jones (used as theme for Sanford and Son) "Barney Miller theme" "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" by Yes "Silly Love Songs" by Paul McCartney (more intermediate maybe) "New Year's Day" by U2; most anything in the U2 catalog has great bass grooves that aren't too hard to...

It would be similar. The older models had roughcast magnets. If you're paying Custom Shop money, just have MJ make you the original recipe, butyrate bobbin, roughcast Alnico V magnet, maple spacer, long leg, single conductor, etc. I have a 35th Anniversary neck and there's nothing better...

RIP. Fantastic player

...and yeah, Duncans are typically out of phase with Fenders.

In Teles, the neck cover has to be grounded, separate from the signal. You don't want to just reverse hot/ground on the neck without ensuring the cover is grounded separately.

Frippertronics!

Sounds like one of your solder connections is barely hanging on

Welcome to the forum That doesn't look like a Duncan to me.

That was a very good year.

When T-Tops were stock pickups, amps didn't have the gain for them to sound good. Now you can get any level of gain you want with amps or modeling. so T-Tops are a good option for certain sounds and playing.

I'd want a different wiring configuration. For example I'd want to be able to split the neck, and I don't need two kill switches. Specs just sound idiosyncratic to one person to me.

The original tuners on my Les Paul Standard are really loose in their action. There's no screw on the keystone to tighten them up. Just wondering if there is any way to tighten up the action, short of full replacement with new repros? (E.g. can the backs come off and tighten up the gear?)

My niece wants to learn guitar. She's Japanese, so she likes bands like Whiteberry, (or others that sound like Scandal, etc; kind of pseudo-metal J-pop style, though not Baby Metal.). Looking in the sub-$500 range, preferably near the $300 range, but can be flexible. Yamaha Pacifica's have low...