Time to wire it up. I placed a piece of stiff paper over the guitar top and carefully felt where the holes are, pushing a pencil through to give me a template of the component locations. Then positioned the components through the holes in the paper. Then sorted out the wires that came with the kit for best fit. There is no consistent colour coding with the wires, but tried to keep black to earth, white live as much as I could. Soldered wires to components, threaded earth wire from tailpiece to control cavity. I found this web link VERY useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxr9E56qyjg parts 1 and 2. Bought tubing and dowel from hardware shop $8 well spent and reusable, as I found out later. Followed video instructions and they worked a treat. Here I encountered a problem with the wires. They regularly broke off at the solder joint. Note to self: use your own better quality wire to build the harness. Also, allow plenty of extra length. Wired up and now start trouble shooting. There was lots of hum that rolled off with the tone knob. This was the first time I found broken earth wire. Pull out offending pot and resolder. Not easy in a hollowbody. Luckily was the tone pot so close to f hole. re assemble. No output. Broken wire number two remove tone pot, etc. Broken wire number 3, live to output jack. remove, etc, replace. I added length to a couple of wires and taped them together for stability when manouvering. All is in now and working hopefully it will not need to be disturbed again. I also eliminated the hum by throwing away the lead cable that came with the kit and used a quality cable. I am thinking I will not bother with the strings that came with it either. I am accumulating enough surplus parts to build another bass!
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