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So I went for it. In theory it should have been five solder joints and done. Lost two hours trying to figure out why I couldn’t stop a vicious earth buzz finally realised that the harness wasn’t wired as per the diagram. Fixed the discrepancy I found and then set about reaming out the holes for the new pots. 30 second job with a stepped bit. Next challenge was stuffing the pots back through the F hole. Super tight and only achievable with some brute force. Was convinced my shitty soldering was going to be dislodged once I finally got it all in place. Totally lost track of which pot was which once it was in and not being able to see made it a bit of a lucky dip when fishing about for the bits of string using a pair of tweezers. Amazingly, I managed to get everything in the right place and pulled though without breaking any connections. However, things ain’t right. The tone control on the neck pickup is behaving oddly. Full on is full off and full off is still full off. seems to only be full on at some point in the middle. Also when I’m in middle position, one volume seems to work on both pickups. Less bothered about that but the tone thing is annoying.