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Tonight I'm going to revert it to coil shunt. The parallel mode is bright to the point of being shrill. My guess is that because the pickup has a good amount low mids, those frequencies get canceled,...

Remarkably, yes. I got everything exactly right the first time . . . albeit upside-down.

CRAP! After busting my kiester to take off the strings, disconnect the bridge pup, clean off the push-pull pot, shorten the leads on the bridge pup, get everything rewired and restring, I realize...

Yep. Shows that resistance can be a deceiving measurement. It's hot, but not crushingly so. It's also not muddy as all get out, although it certainly is not a bright pickup.

Thanks. Maybe I can get to it later today or tomorrow. I'm also going to finally shorten the leads on the bridge humbucker and rewire the push-pull pot so that it will go series-parallel. I think...

At long last I got my replacement in the mail today. It's awfully hard to get through to the tech support guy at Lace. Sounds like part of the problem was NAMM, but still. Anyway, I'm just happy to...

I finally got through to Lace technical support just now. I've got an RMA number. I won't be able to send it out until Monday but hopefully in a few weeks I'll have a replacement.

Yeah, I called them and left a message. The guy was supposed to get back to me. Unless he tried to call when my wife briefly called me today, he didn't. It's OK. I've got just over three years left...

I was mistaken on the solder points on the bottom of the pickup. there are two metal tabs but only one of them has something soldered to it: the green ground wire. I'm assuming that grounds the...

Well, I've got a Sperry multimeter. When I turn it on and set it to 20K, the screen has a 1 on the far left. I assume that means infinite resistance (the manual is less than helpful). If I touch the...

Actually it's a three wire pickup: two grounds and a hot.

When I completely unsolder the pickup my multimeter doesn't read anything. I pulled out my old Jackson single coil and tried that. It...

OK, it's not the switch. I think I may have made a mistake when I hot wired the neck pup to the jack last time. It think my amp might still have been cranked, making me think it worked. Also, I...

Unfortunately the Gibson switch will not work. But I came across this on evilBay.
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Managed to pick up an official Gibson switch (the more horizontal kind) from Guitar Center. The one dude there said that it's a rebadged Switchcraft switch. Now to see if it'll fit the control...

OK, I'm beginning to think that there's a short in my switch somewhere. I hard-wired the pickup directly to the jack and it worked. That would also explain why my bridge pickup also reads open when I...

Well, I thought of that but it only confuses me more. I tried this method with my Jackson, worked great. Then I tried it with my Squier '51 and the oddest thing happened.

My bridge pickup comes...

I've got Lace Hot Golds in my Squier 51 which I've been pretty happy with. Unfortunately I went to play it the other day and I thought my neck pickup was dead. If I turned the volume WAY up on my...