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I bought Ryan's EH 12AY7 Mic Pre. It arrived quickly and well packaged and despite it appearing to have been damaged in transit, Ryan was very patient, courteous and communicative at all times despite my delays being busy with work and trying to work out what was up with it. As it turned out the solution was a simple one! Pesky cables Thanks again for your patience. Great chap, deal in confidence! Cheers Lee

Quite like it. I think in Pelham blue with a black scratchplate... chrome pickups.... would look lovely

I'd Dakota Red it all the way, but that's just me

In addition - do you have the facility to make pickup rings perchance, from metal? Drop me a PM if so

If this works out well you could end up with a few orders from the BC community

Beautiful! I wants one

Fixing the bad wires made me chuckle... Is it just me or do the questions at the bottom sound like he's posed them to himself?

[url="http://www.orchid-electronics.co.uk/acoustic.htm"]http://www.orchid-electronics.co.uk/acoustic.htm[/url] Any use?

Indeed it does. None of which I have at the moment, typically. I thought things were going a bit too well

Well the screw head has broken off and left the remainder in the body. So I'm quite happy at the moment, as you might imagine.

Thanks for the tips folks, think there are some cocktail sticks in the cupboard somewhere. Shouldn't have tinned the wire I realised, but I cut/tinned them all in one go and it was just force of habit! Trouble is, I didn't leave a great deal of slack as I grounded everything to the vol pot as opposed to the tone as it was wired previously, and that little bit of extra distance means I may have to open it up and redo the wire unless I can managed to 'un-tin' the bridge wire... Shouldn't be hard, got some braid somewhere, may be able to heat it up and flatten it out a bit

Completely shielded and rewired my CIJ precision on Monday. Everything surprisingly worked, no more buzz, nice and clean and quiet. I replaced all the wires with cloth covered just to look nice and also swapped the bridge ground wire. I must have tinned the wire under the bridge a little too heavily... there was a groove in the finish where the old one sat and I tried to sit it in there. It was a bit thicker and hence when screwed down, the bridge didn't sit flush with the body. Thinking that it just needed a little bit of compression I tightened the middle screw in the bridge (which was the only one in) a bit *too* much and seemingly stripped the thread. Now it's spinning loose in the hole. Gutting, but hopefully not a massive issue. with the bridge plate between the body and the screw head I should be able to lift it out. Any tips on the most effective way to sort it? Cheers

Cool, look forward to hearing it

Looks brilliant! Really wish I had the know how for projects like this. Any chance of some sound samples?

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1348771096' post='1818052'] I thought Cliff Richard had died when I read the title. [/quote] I was equally disappointed.

I've read the cavity needs a little bit of routing too. Not sure it's worth the hassle, might just keep the stock ones in

Do cts not make the mini pots?

Cheers! Knew there was something to it. I'd rather not hurt the original scratchplate, are there any alternatives?

Just a quick one this - I don't want to faff taking the knobs off and such so maybe someone already knows - I have a CIJ PB70US and I'm going to swap the cap at the weekend/shield it etc, getting some nasty buzzing when the tone is open so I'm guessing there's a bad solder joint or a loose wire somewhere. The vol pot has been crackling on occasion too. I was thinking of taking all the stock stuff out (bar the pickup) and making a new harness with CTS pots, new cap etc. I have it in my head that pots on Japanese Fenders are smaller than usual, though. Have I got confused with Squiers or will a CTS fit fine?