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This guitar is an example
of some pretty fine
cleanup and electronics
work. The guitar came
with two humbuckers and
an empty middle slot in
the pickguard. It had a
3-position pickup switch.
It was very dirty inside
and out and had shoddy
wiring (the tone control
wasn't even connected)
and incomplete shielding.
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Step one was to disassemble, unwire, and clean the guitar inside and out. The pickguard
was unshielded (invites hum), so best-quality copper shielding was applied.
The pickup supplied for the middle position was a double-coil blade pickup designed to fit in
a stratocaster single-coil slot.
All three pickups were capable of coil-tapping, so the old controls were replaced with new
push-pull types for coil tapping the neck and bridge pickups. The customer wanted a mini-
switch installed between them to allow the new middle pickup to be coil-tapped as well.
The 3-position switch was replaced with a new 5-position switch which performed the same
as a Strat.
Finally, an anti-grounding-shock capacitor was placed between the ground and the
bridge/strings.
Wires were bundled, the guitar set up and tested before a final buffing.
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