you see that spring? it was gone.
well, one of them was gone. the other was under the pick guard.
i'm going to put 9s on this (which is very skinny for me, but it's a strat), so i'll head down to long & mcquade's tomorrow.
current estimated projected cost to fix the "broken" guitar:
one washer - $0.50
one spring - $0.50
total: $1.
how does that even happen? well, clearly somebody tried to swap out some humbuckers. either they couldn't figure it out and fucked it up or they swapped something more expensive out before they sold it and didn't bother to connect it properly.
the pickups appear to be unmarked.
i had a washer around. it's keeping the jack in place, but it could benefit from a nut to lock it in.
there's nothing else wrong with this guitar...
actually, i should just go with 10s. i have 12s on my jazz guitar and 11s on my punk guitar. this is going to be my alt/gaze guitar - no need to go that far down. if i ever get a three sss strat or a jazzmaster or a tele, i can go to nine there. i can't see myself wanting less chunk, though.
the jazzmaster is a beast of it's own, and i'll probably never be able to afford one.
access to single coils is really closing a hole in my arsenal that i've, up to this point, used all kinds of effects processing and equalization tricks to try and get around. believe it or not, i've never had a single coil guitar - since i started playing in about 1990. and this is actually my first new (electric) guitar in almost fifteen years.
actually, that's not true - some of the garage sale pickups i've been through over the years have been single coil, and i guess that means i have bought new guitars over the last fifteen years, but they were all under $10 and never used for anything besides ridiculous tunings and noise generations. which i guess produces some continuity. but i plan to hang on to this one, it's a more serious addition.
