Thanks guys! Yeah, I am happy with it and excited to get it all adjusted. I will enjoy playing with the height adjustment to find some sweet spots. Right now, I am going to make the neck lower relative to the bridge a bit, and play with things from there. Unfortunately, I could not find a replacement screw today (for the one I stoopidly stripped being in an hurry), even in Twin Falls, ID. I have a set ordered from Allparts, but will have to wait a couple days. I could push the pickup down and grab it with a pliers, but I am saving that move for when I have to get that screw back out if I have trouble backing it out with the screwdriver.
Regarding courage, hardly! But that's the thing that is so cool about these CV Squiers: first, they are pretty darned good out of the box for a really reasonable price; second, they are not that expensive so at least I don't feel so petrified about trying out modding/hot-rodding on them a little bit. And with this wiring kit, it will be easy to experiment even further. It makes it so easy. Or put it back to original configuration if I so choose. But I doubt that. The strat is really close enough to those tones, and the new tones are going to be an awful lot of fun to play with. Rawk Tele indeed!!
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
Effects and such: Boss: DS-1, CE-5, NS-2 and RC20XL looper, Digitech Bad Monkey, Korg AX1G Multi-effects, Berhinger: TU100 tuner, PB100 Clean Boost, Line 6 Toneport UX2, Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi, DuhVoodooMan's Rabid Rodent Rat Clone, Zonkin Yellow Screamer Mk. II, MXR Carbon Copy Delay
love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. . .
- j. johnson