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Picked up a non functioning loaded pick guard on Craigslist. Has P-rail neck, unknown single coil (black and white cloth insulation wires, 6.7 DCR) and Invader bridge. Had push-pull rats nest wiring. It appeared there was a failed attempt to split he Invader. Pulled it out, installed regular old...

Nope. There is a tiny bit of electricity that comes from very important transducers that make a huge difference.

Mesa certified fuses: "Mesa fuses the highest quality available and selected for their exceptional full-range tonal quality, stability, low noise and low microphonics. They provide the maximum level of high gain output with low sensitivity to microphonic noise while producing a balanced response...

Did you check the fuse?

Delete-problem solved

Congratulations! Brilliant guitar with a royal paint job and a vintage year.

The Bill Lawrence 5-Way Telecaster Circuit Positions 4 and 5 add an interesting element to the CBS era Telecaster’s sound.

Axion Timmy V2 / Vemuram Jan Ray is on the bench, will retrofit it to just Timmy specs. In the interim slapped together the strip board protype I built. Paint that got on the components looks better than the enclosure but it works and sounds good enough for now. Have found The Way Huge...

Just put a Duncan Antiquity II tele bridge pup recommended by Jeremy in my build. It is great for that music. $59 on Reverb.

Thank you, I saw that too an it reads 39nf on multimeter but will swap it out just in case. BTW, did take your advise and swap out opamp for 4559 and that did help. Axion calls it Timmy V2 / Vemuram Jan Ray, not sure what the Jan Ray changes are and what affect they may have on the sound.

I have found this a helpful guide to troubleshooting pedals https://www.diystompboxes.com/pedals/debug.html

Finished the electrical build of the Axion fix Timmy yesterday. Have spent a few hours with it and it’s a good transparent overdrive but don’t like it as much as my old Paul C. Original. It’s a more aggressive boost, not as smooth and clean as I remember. Will keep on tweeking Axion vs original…

So, have made progress but looking for advice on how to get some decent looking nomenclature on the the enclosure. Painted a dark blue so looking for white letters. Have googled it but couldn't find anything that sounded within my abilities. Prolly shoulda left it bare metal and sharpied in...

MXR Timmy uses LF353 op amp. It is a higher output/gain op amp. Typically that results in some trade offs which might explain the minor differences. Also, early units had some mods on the fly done which is always an iffy way to go. Gut shot shows resistor added in a unique fashion: it also...