The problem was that I cant solder very well & the big blobs (I think ) were causing an awful lot of noise. Maybe I had a cold solder joint mixed in there as well. I bought some pots from China on Ebay (3 packs of 5 each) for about $14 AUD so I could practice my soldering. As it turned out I managed to get it all together first time & even the installation went well although I had had a bit of practice with the dummy runs I had to do when the wires broke. I wondered how you went putting all of the electrics in when the neck was on? I remember from building the ES5V that stuffing the wires into the F holes was a real pain & there were less pots n stuff to go into that one! I am now ready to start putting the bridge & Bigsby on today. I also bought a roller bridge which I also did for the ES5V which makes intonation so much easier. This roller bridge however needs to have some sort of sleeve put over the supplied anchors because the holes are already drilled for the supplied bridge & I dont want to fill them up & re drill. (I will put some pictures up later to illustrate what I mean.) Have you put the Bigsby onto yours yet?