This is not a bass diary, it's for my first electric guitar.

Couple tuning machines had the little plastic pieces broken, which made the tuning even more difficult.  It had been a few years since I re-finish the guitar, and as my first electric guitar, it is time to show it some love.

• A set of hipshot locking tuner was bought from ebay, although locking tuner doesn't help much on a floydrose system, but the price is the same compare to regular version, so let's go with locking.
• A set of used dimarzio pickup(paf-pro, tone zone) was found at local music store for $35 ea, what can possibility go wrong?
• A push/pull pot is added to coil split the 2 humbuckers to get that SSS sound (wiring diagram can be found on dimarzio.com, they have tons of them)
• A set of new string

Afterthoughts:

Hipshot tuner is great, super solid and smooth, just like the ones on my AC5 and Sadowsky P5, the stock is garbage compare to them.  Locking tuners make string changing super fast, and also help the tuning stability on the floydrose bridge.

PAF-pro pickup rocks ...   it makes  a cheapy basswood body guitar sounds how like $1500+ instruments out there.  output is hot, it cuts, and sings.  having it on the neck position gives that sweet sweet lead sound.  clean sound is decent, and splitting the 2 coils and combines with the middle gives that open clean sound.  It's a classic pickup, period.  

I'm not a fan of the tone-zone, it's very mid focused and works well with high-gain setting with that crunchy rhythm tone.  Still exploring.

This is a fun little project in the past week, and I'm pleased with the result.  My current philosophy is:

for cheap body wood, go with high-output pickups and they will make the instrument sounded all the same. lol