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So, I'm modding my new burgundy mist Jag, and everything I try to do to it requires a whole lot of messing around!

I'm replacing the pickups with the neck and bridge pickup from my Simon Neil strat, and so I have ordered all new pots; for lead circuit and rhythm section circuit. Now, finding the minipots for jaguar that have the correct resistance I'm looking for is nigh-on impossible, so I've had to order just the normal mini-pots, and engineer them at work to fit into rhythm circuit cavity. The little angular plate they sit on has had to have been drilled, along with the roller wheels so that the larger shaft can fit in. And once these were drilled, the old hacksaw came out to shorten the shaft!
And the 250k pots I ordered from fender for the lead circuit are HUGE! I've had to drill the plate up to 10.25mm to accommodate for them.

I'm just waiting on the last 250k pot to arrive, and then I can complete this beast!


And I know everyone likes pictures, so:
The Jag:
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And the Simon Neil strat:

Is the Jag already routed for strat pups or are you going to do that yourself as well?

(PM'd about those pickups )

VERY COOL! I've heard great things about those pickups in the CV Strat, very unique. What value were you looking for in the minipot? 250k i'm guessing? If you were hard pressed to find some you could have always ran resisters in parallel with them to drop their resistance from 1M to 250k.

Thom wrote:Is the Jag already routed for strat pups or are you going to do that yourself as well?

The strat pickups will fit fine (I think!) without routing. In my block jag, I have a Jb jnr strat pickup that fitted perfectly

Haze wrote:(PM'd about those pickups )

VERY COOL! I've heard great things about those pickups in the CV Strat, very unique. What value were you looking for in the minipot? 250k i'm guessing? If you were hard pressed to find some you could have always ran resisters in parallel with them to drop their resistance from 1M to 250k.

250k, yeah. If I was to run a resistor, would I wire it from hot to earth as to make it parallel?

You'd wire it from one outside leg to the other

GreenKnee wrote:

Thom wrote:Is the Jag already routed for strat pups or are you going to do that yourself as well?

The strat pickups will fit fine (I think!) without routing. In my block jag, I have a Jb jnr strat pickup that fitted perfectly

Most strat pups have a triangular base plate, with the exception of single sized hums like the jb jr - check it out just in case!

Thom wrote: Most strat pups have a triangular base plate, with the exception of single sized hums like the jb jr - check it out just in case!

Yeah, I will definitely check, I forgot about that. The wires usually come out of that triangular part too don't they? It's not as if these are common pickups either, no picks on google of them, so I'll have to prematurely pull the strat to pieces to see

The pickups in the strat will have the triangular baseplate and not fit in the Jag without routing. You might try Duncan s-jags, quarter pounders or antiquities... that's unfortunately a far more expensive alternative though. Other stratty singles don't have the plate, I know I've seen 'em but can't remember who makes those, maybe someone else will.

paul_ wrote:The pickups in the strat will have the triangular baseplate and not fit in the Jag without routing. You might try Duncan s-jags, quarter pounders or antiquities... that's unfortunately a far more expensive alternative though. Other stratty singles don't have the plate, I know I've seen 'em but can't remember who makes those, maybe someone else will.

Yeah they do have that baseplate. I have a s-jag hot in the neck of my other jag, does sound nice, but these strat pickups have a blend of alnico III and V pickups, so they sound quite unique, and really cool! Now I'm not sure whether to rout the jag, or just leave them in the strat. Decisions decisions...