Yes. I’ll burn my eyes out.

Well maybe he had to have a party to eat all those chips you gave him.

There are so many Evil Forests. Which one?

What they really mean is “Buy our product or else!”

Pickups are soldered and everything but the new capacitor is in. Looks pretty good. Honestly surprised it doesn’t hum, my soldering skills aren’t great.

I knew there was a chance the new pickups would be too tall to fit in the existing cavity for the pickups. And that turned out to be the case. I wasn’t equipped to properly use a router to expand it, so I used my long dormant woodworking skills to chisel it.

Since the pickups didn’t come with covers and I don’t already have the vintage style pickups in my bass, I had to order some. I got these from Curtis Novak.

For the pickups, I went with Lollar’s Mustang Bass Version A. My understanding is these go for the vintage sound of the older Mustangs but with higher output.

For drastic modifications, like changing the type of pickups, the pick guard / scratch plate will usually need to be changed, and in a case like this, a custom one is needed. This took a lot of research to make sure everything would fit. I ordered this one from WD Music.

First a little history. These basses have been around since the 60s and they’re short scale. And there are a LOT of variations. Mine is a more modern version with P and J pickups. I can’t take it all the way to vintage so it’ll be a mix. Feel free to read more. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_...

It’s a sin.

Thank you for sharing this. I’ve gone through something very similar recently and this makes me feel a little better about my choices. At the moment I have less of a plan but maybe that’s ok. It’s going to take me a while.