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So. At the risk of being accused of that most heinous of internet crimes, the revival of the dead forum thread , I wanted to come back and finish this story.

I took off the control plate/pickguard to see if there were any obvious shorts or breaks. Nothing. Of course.

Then I wiggled the wiring to ...

jps wrote:

mikef wrote:...neck tone has zero effect...

Which way does it not have any effect. Can you tell whether the tone is full "open" or fully "closed" in its sound.

It’s definitely fully open - the tone isn’t muffled at all

Hi guys,

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you - I’m not on as regularly as some people, I guess.

Anyway, the answer is that I am plugging in using the standard jack - I get output from both pickups, both volumes work, the bridge tone works (including the vintage setting), but the neck ...

Hi there,

I've got a 2011 4003 (with the vintage pull switch on the treble tone). Recently I was experimenting with some different tones and discovered that while the tone pot on the bridge pickup works as expected, the one for the neck pickup doesn't seem to do anything - no effect on either the ...