) to hit the BIN button, and I did.....sooooo....Here it is...I am really digging it, it sounds great and other than a replaced nut seems to be all original and pretty clean.
After getting it home I checked it over and cleaned it up, a set of new knobs from POTR, new strings, plugged it in, and----what's wrong...? Hmmm...all the knobs were working weirdly.....next task was to open it up, and I found a little yellow wire that was literally wrapped (not soldered) around the little capacitor (not the tone caps) and just hooked on each end to the lugs at where the solder joints were for the cap. Now that the wire is gone everything works as it should. Very consistant with the way my 'ol '79 sounds and feels, I shall have fun with this one...Thanks to Trotty and the "DO IT!!!!" chorus...one more for the vault.
