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I used to buy from them years ago, hopefully they are still willing to send a few pieces out of these 50k pots you need with longer shafts...good luck.

Try this UK place... Omeg......https://www.omeg.co.uk

Look at Allparts U.K. and Armstrong Music U.K. (used to be WD music).

Yes! I missed those connections…..methinks a complete rewire is in order, new pots using AWG.22 cloth cover wire.

This looks odd to me as the diagram shows the ‘hot’ and ‘ground’ from the pickup being soldered to the pot chassis which is/should be ‘ground’…in fact it looks like all three lugs on the first pot/volume eventually get ‘grounded’ . The tone pot ‘grounding’ also seems strange. This is either a very clever and different wiring harness that either works fantastically well or a simply doesn’t, I’m confused 😳

We’re you that underage drinker Mike 😄

Frank is also out playing with ‘Slim Chance’, Charlie is in it as well.

That would have been a Sunday lunchtime gig Mike and the Cherry Tree was one of my earliest gigs with Steve Waller....the band usually consisted of Steve, Dave Early on drums (RIP, played with Sade), Frank Mead on sax, me on bass, keys and more horn players. 12-2pm opening times.

Good luck Mike, that’s a big time move, I’m sure there’ll be music enough around the Wolves area.

I think there is a place down Andover way that does veneers but at what thickness I’m not sure of ie as in a thicker top for a bass or thinner veneer like on furniture…….. Just had a quick search and couldn’t find the Aldershot place ..’Reliance’ up in London……or David Dyke/Luthier Supplies in East Sussex.

I purchased a cool new set of Gotoh machine heads from James, all well packaged and sent speedily.... a top man, cheers James.

Look up Jimmy Webb ‘Tunesmith….Inside the art of writing’. On Hatchett books. I’m sure he also has an autobiography out of his earlier days in the music business.

I would hazard that there has to be a contact with a ‘live’ wire somewhere, maybe at the jack point….maybe take all the shielding out and see if all is well, then try to shield the cover only and earth it and test.