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It's mostly a weight thing, which probably leads to increased confidence in their turning action. Plus they're solid, these John East knobs, not this aluminium shell pressed onto a plastic insert which is in turn pressed onto the pot shaft. Those alu stock knobs felt cheap as hell to me - if it weren't for the fact they were cold to the touch in a cold room, I would have confused them with plastic, and super cheap plastic at that. I also wasn't keen on them being black - I thought the chrome knobs on the Z3 looked way nicer so that was another factor in my decision.

I've got two spare black John East stack knobs, if that helps get you started...

Sorry about that 😇

I call it "snotburst"

Jesus, heard of Google? I've given you the product names, what more do you want? Don't be so "insta"

You might need to run a soldering iron down the middle of them to break it up if they are joined (but I can't see how that is possible by accident) - more like they're just close enough that they're touching - in that case some firm "you should be **there**" movement should be enough. Just pry them apart enough so they stay apart and you should be fine.

It's a race to the patent office!

Looks joined/touching to me, but I'm only going by your photo and you said they're not joined, so I dunno. The easiest way to explain full volume all the time is that the volume pot is being jumped out of the circuit and the hot from the pickup is going straight to the output jack somehow.

I have a Joyo Monomyth now for my get out of jail free card, but I used to carry a BDI21 with me. Also, if I had a pound for every time I saw one of these at a venue or studio...

I'm having a pickle and cheese sandwich. Yes - I put the pickle down first then put cheese on top! Innovative? It's borderline debauchery!

Something just occurred to me - this is "innovation"... for Fender. Seen in their own bubble (the "Fenderverse"?) these changes could be seen as "innovative"? I'm trying to be nice here.

Hmm, best has probably been my Lekato WS-70 wireless bugs. Should have gone wireless years ago! Honourable mention to the Hotone Harmony pitch shifter/harmonizer pedal I bought - it is tiny, cheap and does a surprisingly good job of handling singer's requests to put songs up/down 1-3 semitones as well as giving me a blendable octave up/down and a detune effect. Worst - probably the Digitech Bass Synth Wah I bought - I snagged it for a keen price from a second hand shop down south but it was broken

The saga rumbles on. Now it's the turn of DHL to be the sticking point. I have been to two DHL "service"points and had my parcel refused because it's too big. The trouble with this is that your typical DHL "service"point seems to be situated in a tiny convenience store with hardly enough room to swing a cat, never mind store a bass in a box. Also, I have zero confidence that the parcel will be safe as they just seem to leave them lying around the shop. In the second one I went to, the lady I spoke to at the second one told me they're a shower of lazy b'stards (not her words) and only show up intermittently. She pointed at a smaller parcel (about the size of a small microwave oven) she took in (ironically also a Thomann box, but I couldn't say if it was bound for Thomann or reused for something else) which was just sitting on the floor in the aisle and it had been there for 3 days I'm not going traipsing around the city trying all six because it's going to be the same story. I've fed this back to Thomann and asked them what I'm supposed to do now.

My drummer has two estate cars.

Hardly, it's a shallow route plus a swimming pool in the body (CNC machine can take care of that) and one extra piece of plastic that the pickup is attached to which slides underneath the pickguard. That's it. (pic lifted from flyguitars.com)

Mind you, I'm not sure about the logic of using 250k pots with a humbucker. I think I'll just get the pickup on its own and do my own thing with 500k pots and their excellent wiring diagram. I'm not paying them €21 for two pots and a cap - where do you think I'm from? How was copper wire invented? Two Aberdonians fighting over a penny!

Aye, they had actually started to leave, but it took them the length of your set to make it to the door...

Would watch, but not allowed to

Oh, not you too! Why not just enjoy the best T-bird Gibson never made for what it is? I am 100% with you about the Grabber pickguard though - whoever passed that as OK needs an eye test, or had it described to them down the phone!

Just thought I'd dredge this up to say that I'm giving some serious consideration to getting one of these pickups in my Jack Casady. It's not well, feeding back at the slightest provocation and I'm out of warranty so Epiphone/Gibson have kicked me into the long grass to fend for myself. I like the idea of using the rotary as a series/single/parallel switch - gives the switch something to do because I'd rather that than have it there as a DFA switch, or remove it and have a rubber grommet or something in there.

Have you wandered in here unattended again? Where is your carer?

Now now, dinna be flippant, we are actually trying to help here...

I asked someone to read over my email before I sent it and the verdict was (and I quote) - "sassy, but not unfair"

Why is this even relevant in this thread anyway? I'm in Aberdeen, and have been sent a bass which has got bashed in the post. How is visiting a guitar shop in Wales, in person, gonna help me right now? I've already got the replacement, it's utterly moot. I just ignored it when Stub mentioned it - honestly I thought he had wandered into the wrong thread by mistake But now that it's been referenced again I would just like to say I don't want to get into a discussion about the merits (and downsides - something usually forgotten about by cheerleaders of the "buy in person" brigade) of going to guitar shops in person vs. buying at distance. It's not relevant to this thread or this situation. Thank you for reading, and I hope I don't come off rude here but it's my thread about a specific issue/saga that I'm having and I'd rather it wasn't derailed by this irrelevance.

Aw damn, my bluff's been called! 'Spose I had better turn up then...