Whoohoo! <bouncehopspinnnnnn!!!!!!!!> My pickups finaly arrived! Dora is done!
I installed the pickups with some neoprene foam (eg strips cut from an old mouse pad) under them. After wiring them up and the tone pot, I strung it up and plugged it in, pulled a string, aaaaaand!!!! MOS (Mid Out Sound). I got bupkiss out of the speaker. After checking everything again with the multi meter I pulled the jack out and discovered some copper tape had come away (probably from when I re-established the hole for the jack inside the control cavity) and was shorting between the poles of the jack.
After fixing that , plunged in again and ....it lives! But I was expecting a better sound. I had spent a lot of money on Bartolini CF4CBCs and after waiting since the beginning of January for them I was disappointed
. I lowered them a bit and BANG! They sounded so much better.
The action was somewhat high...ok... bloody ridiculous, but luckily the saddles on the Babicz weren't down all the way. The design of the bridge made adjusting and intonating very easy. So next... on to getting timber for Mean Gene, Bomber and Precipice.