Finally Installed the Pickups

I finished wiring, and ... it didn't work.  I decided it was my attempt at star grounding, so I undid it. Still didn't work.  Finally I studied the Acme diagram and blew up the section with the tone pot.  I realized that what I had intepreted as a soldered wire from the back of a pot to one of its tabs was actually a bent wire coming from a capacitor!  That connection had been bugging me anyway, as it seemed not to make sense.  And in fact it didn't - all the signal was going to ground I supposed.  Once I fixed that, I was all set.

It sounds pretty good.  I really like the blender pot, and I definitely like having just a single tone pot. Now I just need my Tremol No.  Unfortunately it was sent via USPS, and so I may not see it until Tuesday.

I've been thinking about that thread on strat-talk, in which one poster remarked that one has to think whether one wants to "play with guitars" or "play guitar".  I've spent all my time doing the former, and having a great time, but I don't want to lose sight of the latter.