Ah yes.. Success.

Bit of a pain in the $@! though. I gutted the parts, installed new ones.. put it back together. No sound at all. The volume knob felt funky when I turned it. It would do nothing, then, "click" noise (but no sound). After checking over the wiring a few times I came to the conclusion that GC sold me a bunk Fender pot.

Sure enough.. Had to swap it with one of the tone pots, put an old one in the tone position.. Success... At.....Last.

I've got one more round to go, and my boy is back in action!! I got rid of almost all of the noise. A good shield job should take care of the rest, swap the old tone pot, and I'm good to go.

Thanks again Martian and Nikki. This guitar smokes all of my others. Long weekend, but it was well worth it,