HB Beatbass alterations

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The original controls weren't wired correctly, not that the Hofner design is any more desirable (to me). Made a new control panel (poorly) with crude hand tools. Removed bridge pickup, may make a cover, but as is, is semi acoustic at the moment. 500k volume and tone (push-pull, currently disconnected), .022 capacitor (what I had on hand). Orange amp knobs. I am aware the bridge is likely placed wrong, when I have $50 for decent strings, I will then start the laborious (I have ocd bad) task of mean intonation. These changes didn't result in the outcome I hoped for, but did seem to remove a lot of honkyness (best word) from this bass, that it has always had. I expected these pickups to be of a design similar to what I had seen online of disassembled epiphone viola bass pickups, but instead they are a ceramic firebird design. I would expect the covers to be brass, but I am not a metallurgist. I should have taken pictures of that, but it made a better cat toy.