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Take snips, cut leg of capacitor. Call it a FrankenSG.
There's a lot in guitarist jargon which can easily infuriate you if you stick too strictly to the proper terms - I'm at least as bad with some of them .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Axecaster have a nice simple diagram, google '50's wiring diagram one pickup' and look at the images tab. Basically a visual aid to what @Funkfingers said.
Roughly three years ago, SD Inc. brought in a third party to overhaul large chunks of their website - most noticeably the schematic diagram department. In most forms of publishing, it is conventional to engage proofreaders before committing to the final release. Clearly, somebody omitted to do this. Many of the current diagrams have howling errors in them. Many of the paid SD tech support people do not seem to have any understanding whatsoever of guitar wiring. The company leaves it to forum solder heads to solve customer wiring questions. Duh!
Does it matter?
Just perform the three actions that I described yesterday.
There was a big ol' blob of solder that you can just make out in the first pic, I think it was grounding the vol wiper or something because the taper is actually really nice now. Also, having properly grounded the bridge and pickup shield (which was hidden somehow yesterday, I dug it out of the insulation), it's nice and quiet again. Hooray! I'm enjoying my imaginary scouts badge for soldering.
Thanks for the help, everybody.
Under the middle terminal of the pot? If so, well done for spotting it - I didn't, although I can see it now you've said so.
With apologies to JiJoe again , that would have caused the sort of "partial short" to the shielding paint I was talking about.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The taper of the pot is still quite extreme but in a good way. Through a little practice amp, 8 is a nice rhythm volume, then 10 for soloing. I imagine it'll be interesting controlling a Ge fuzz face with it.