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You're correct -- it's the 12 tiny ones. The other ones are to adjust the intonation. What tool you use depends on what they look like on top; I'd suspect you need either a little screwdriver or an allen wrench. They may move easier if you temporarily tune down to get the tension off the strings.

If you have the usual strat-style bridge, each string is sitting on a little saddle by itself (these things). Each of those saddles should have two little screws, one on either side of the string, that adjust the height.

Excellent. Good glue joints I can manage. What glue did you use? I have plenty of Titebond left over from a furniture project. I especially like the natural-wood look. You just don't see that in the usual store-bought cabinets.

I've been curious about this -- how much science goes into these things? Are the boxes tuned in any way? That is, is there an optimal volume / shape / speaker layout given the frequency range you want? From here, it looks like it would be no harder than building a nice-looking, thoroughly...

Oh, ok. Hook it to both middle lugs on the blender. That way the signal goes in parallel through both sides, and the blender adjusts how much of each.

Well, I meant wire that bass cut control in the exact position currently occupied by your master volume. I only saw 3 lugs on your switch, though. Could you post a picture that shows 4?

By the treble side, I mean the one with the higher-pitched strings, yes. Not like a hum, like the volume won't go all the way down. You may still hear a little bit of the strings. As to an expert opinion, nothing to do but wait and see, I'm afraid. Honestly, at this point I think you're...

I agree that bringing the treble side of the pickup up could improve the sound. Yes, your pickups are already running in parallel. When the switch is in the middle position, it connects both of the end lugs to the center one, making a parallel connection. This is the usual setup. I would...

I don't know if that's what those are or not. I see what you're talking about, though. The picture I'm looking at (wikipedia) looks to me like his would be to keep the open strings from ringing out while he's doing some crazy stuff on the upper frets. I was thinking more along the lines of...

Say, is that thing amplified? If so, what kind of pickup do you have in there?

Yeah, what you need is one of these. My next project is going to be to build something along those lines. Dennis Havlena has a nice page with instructions for a homebuilt version that's not too deep into the pockets. Other than that, it seems to me that an upright tends to have more muted...

Since you're not separating the coils in any way, wiring humbucker pickups is no different than wiring single coils. For single coils, people typically use 250K pots, and 500K for humbuckers, but even that's a matter of preference. By run the signal through a cap, I mean put a cap in between...

If your friend has a real ric, why don't you just wire yours the same as his? Why the hell are you looking for a diagram? The point of a capacitor is that only the higher frequencies will go through one. The way a tone control works is to run part of the signal to ground through the cap, so...

I also dig the mirrored pickguard, esp. with the red strings. I'd worry about smudging it up, though. Seems like fingerprints would be awfully visible on something like that.

I was thinking that the dimarzio comment was more likely to mean that the wire colors may be different than represented on the SD diagram. Like I usually see the red and white wires soldered together, but I think in the first picture you posted it was the black and white wires.

Ok, there are a few things troubling me about this setup that I haven't been able to figure out. As far as I can tell, a blend pot looks like it's just two pots on the same shaft, whose sweeps travel in opposite directions, so that both volumes are all the way up when the knob is at its center...

Me again. A quick search for "rickenbacker wiring" turned up this page: http://www.rickenbacker.com/service_g_schematics.asp I believe the one you want is this one: http://www.rickenbacker.com/pdfs/19511.pdf That should do the trick as long as you don't mind reading a schematic instead of a...

Yeah, the two big black wires coming out of the pickups each contain four smaller wires, black, white, red, and green. You can see it in the first picture you posted. I can only think of two reasons to bypass all the controls, which are (1) because they didn't work, or (2) because he didn't...

Hopefully one of the resident experts will respond to this soon enough. But while you're waiting, I'll get you started. These pickups appear to be humbuckers where one of the two coils has standard polepieces and the other has a rail (or two). Notice in the control cavity that there are 4...

Just a question: In setting up, would you need to cut the nut a little bit differently for a 3L/3R headstock than something of the Fender variety? I would think if you cut straight slots, not rounded off on the headstock end, that the strings would want to bite into that corner, especially the...