So this morning the FedEx truck dropped off a Fallout that I got from eBay. It had a bad push-pull tone pot. (Sorry if I was bidding against any of you). Ahead of time I had ordered a new Alpha pot from Amplified Parts, since the G&L Online Store was out of them. After about an hour (I work slow) I had the new pot soldered in, guitar re-strung, and everything was working. However I had soldered one set of the leads to the bottom of the pot instead of the top (the
Wiring Diagram sketch has the tone pot drawn split in half so I just didn't pay enough attention to top vs bottom. I had to pull the pot to get the humbucker working, rather than push it in, and it was just wrong. Luckily it is easy to remove the pickguard and electronics with the strings on and I swapped the wiring to the correct spot. Now I have a great working Tribute Fallout. [s]
The P90 is powerful but maybe not bright enough for my taste. Anyone know the best remedy to brighten up the P90 without making the humbucker any brighter? Should I just find a P90 that is a bit brighter?[/s] Edited: I am a dummy and spent the time to set the string height and everything else but forgot to set the pickup height. This P90 is pretty nice and is pretty well balanced with the humbucker.
Here she is:
It's missing the tone knob. I didn't know they put a set screw type on the push-pull pot so I didn't get the brass sleeve. The factory one has a plastic sleeve it seems and the shaft further broke when I tried to remove it. I'll either dig out a brass sleeve or just get a nice, tight fitting new split shaft knob from the G&L Shopify store.