Spent a decent part of the day yesterday tweaking my new Lawrence 710 pickup to fit in my S-10 GFI, got everything all soldered up and was patting myself on the back for the accessible but hidden coil tap switch location then made sure I tightened the input jack so it wouldn't come loose. I plug it in and nothing, no sound, no hum nothing!! It was late so I figured I'd better sleep on it and if I had alcohol in the house I'd probably have drank myself to sleep.
Get home from work today and screw up my courage to try to figure out what I'd done wrong. My ohmmeter is giving me some weird readings but not pointing to a solution. Finally I take the switch out, that looks fine and so then pull the jack out and @#$%&*+ the ground lug had swiveled around and was touching the hot lug!
Why am I chastising myself in front of God and the steel guitar world? Because it was only then that I recalled doing exactly the same thing when I put the other pickup in a little more than two years ago!!!
If I ever change pickups again hopefully I'll remember to put in a new jack in the process.
As a watch out for anyone who's input jack has come loose then all of sudden there is no sound coming from your guitar---check that jack!
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