the rollerdoor wrote:
I noticed after one flight, the sound cut out if i tapped the bridge pickup or volume pot.
It's now cutting out all the time..
Contact cleaner on the pot seems to rectify the problem in the short term, but I gotta get to the bottom of it..
This might be a long shot, but here is an idea since you mentioned it took a flight...
A day or so after I got my JM, my toddler knocked the case over (guitar was in the case). I checked it out... no damage... but plugged it in and no output.
Long story short, the hot side of the input jack had moved enough to make contact with the brass tub and shorted the output to ground. I would take off the pickguard and plug in the input jack to your amp... tap on the pole pieces. If it's alive, then try to adjust the position of the input jack so that when you put the pickguard back on, it does not inadvertently allow the hot side to short your signal when assembled.
Other than that, if it's intermittent as you describe, it's very likely a mechanical issue caused by vibration that is somehow causing your output to short to ground. The three-way swtich is another place where the leads can make contact with the case of the guitar.
Good luck.
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