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The problem is definitely with the pickup. I swapped the leads of the two pickups and the neck pickup sounded fine through the bridge tone and volume pots. Now I have moved the neck pickup to the bridge position for now because it sounds fine (although the pickup is annoyingly microphonic I can't wi...

Ahh! Ok that makes sense! Ha!

I have never even touched the pickup end of the leads. The only soldering/desoldering has been at the pickup lead/switch junction. I will check for a short/bad connection on the pickup itself though. Thanks for the info!

I don't understand?

Ok so I removed the pickup and measure the output. It measures exactly 7.4k! I swapped the leads on my pickups to quickly see if it was something else in the circuit. It still sounded thin and weak when running through the "neck" switch tab and pots (just to clarify when I had it wired lik...

Paul thanks for the tip. I'll check that out. I dropped the guitar off today to get the neck fixed and a couple of other little issues sorted out. When I get it back, I think I will swap the middle and bridge pickups around and then try the magnet trick. Will the bright cap throw that off at all (I ...

I just plugged in a cable and measured from the cable. There is a little more resistance from the wiring but gives an idea. On this guitar there is no .0047 at the moment. I plan to install one though, which will of course alter the output of the bridge pickup even further. The bridge and middle pic...

Oh wow. Cool! Where could I get an appropriate magnet? I'd give that a try, curious to know how it would sound. My only concern though is that as it is the guitar overdrives the amp a lot! Because it is a 12'er it might get crazy! I'd still try it though

Ok that makes sense and is good news! For some reason it did not occur to me to test the pot. How do I test the switch?

Something is wrong with the bridge pickup on my '99 1997 reissue. I played it on the weekend and everything was fine. After sitting in a case in the closet for a couple of days the bridge pickup sounds thin and weak. Also, the tone pot is doing something funny now. It lowers the overall volume very ...

Hello friends, I measured the outputs on my '65 12 string today. It should be noted that the bridge and neck pickups were measured from a cable in the output jack, while the middle was measured directly from the pickup lead. So the middle would be more like 7.9k in the guitar. Here are the numbers: ...

I just stumbled on this thread now. Very cool idea and mod. I am curious to try this out on a 12 string... I had an idea for a machined aluminum TOM-reminiscent bridge assembly but I don't have a way of getting one made. I noticed that Pigtail (no affiliation) makes an ABR-1 out of aluminum. It is $...

Great story Colin! Well done!

After making small adjustments daily for the last couple of days the guitar is playing better than ever now!!! Wow it is really starting to sound good! The neck is not quite straight but one or two adjustments will probably get it there. At this point, the backbow is causing a bit of buzz on the bas...

Great story and nice guitar!

The frets are pretty low, I don't think there is much room for crowning. The guitar actually plays better now then it did before I started from scratch with the neck, but I am now fairly certain that it will need a refret to play as new. It's too bad that it wasn't a really easy fix but on the other...