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Nice score! What pickups are in it?

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Looks like a sensational restoration. Good luck on the MM bass.

The first time was because I bought a vintage Strat that had only one original pickup and I was trying to get a matched sound across all positions.

I didn't think PGs were offset coils.

Are your pickups humbucking/stacked and did they get inadvertently wired in parallel?

My favorite all around pair for the requested music is a Bare Knuckle Black Dog bridge with a 59/A4 neck. The WLH bridge is very similar to the BK, but a little hotter and darker. (I've never tried the SNS set.)

Just play 'em hard. Gold wears off pretty quick.

What kind of guitar and wiring? Does it have a separate vol/tone for the neck? Are the cap legs on the tone insulated, or are they touching metal that is grounding out the tone cap? It can also happen if the pickup has a short in the coil.

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.