Sorry if my response seemed a bit too serious, I got the jokes
and was chuckling as I typed
. The caps were purely opportunistic, it was midnight, I'd wrecked the 0.022uF cap
, so I went looking on the 2 old compressors I'd been pulling apart to practice desoldering, then had to research what the writing on the caps means... found 2 that were ballpark (2A682J), and went from there. I already knew I wanted lower value = more subtle tone roll and it's worked out well
Mike asked me last night how much it had cost so I did the maths:
Squire Bullet strat ~$200, PUs (Hot Rails and Little59) ~$130 each, Wilkinson Trem $40 (great value BTW), graphtec nut $15, switchcraft jack $10, blackgrome gotohs $60, 2 dimarzio push pull pots $50, dimarzio super switch $60 so all up ~$595 then add labor (fun) ?? So quite a decent guitar for $600 ish, add hard case $700
It's one way to go and these style projects are much easier these days, 40 years ago nothing fitted coz copywrite laws and mms vs inches etc, so much is licensed now that things "tend" to fit (eg the nut was a straight swap, no filing required (as Dante said about the graphtecs)).