So,, I have today and tomorrow off work, YAY ME!!!!!!!!!!!!
Time to make some progress while I wait for more Dingotone outback sunset, (one bottle has done 2 coats on the neck and 1 on the body)
I got onto the wiring today, and its job done! I have gone for a pushpull pot instead of the middle PU tone, it throws the middle pickup in or out of phase, and the pot is a "blend" control.
I held the bashplate against the strings of my real strat to test and although that was no test of the tone, it showed me
A: it works, and B: theres lots of different sounds.
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