OK, here's my 2000 Stagemaster 7. I bought it as a basket case in pieces off of eBay for $60 + shipping. It was missing the bridge pickup. The neck pickup was not working and the wireing was all hosed up. I was very lucky as the seller had the extremely hard to get neck plate.
I bought a Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB (Jeff Beck) 7 string pick up for the bridge. and set about fixing her up.
The neck pickup had the wires cut about 2 inches from the pickup and was taped up with black electrical tape. The tape was so thick that the pickup would not sit properly in the pickup cavity. I repaired the lead with solder and shrinkwrap and soon discoved that the guitar had a factory fault. The pickup cavities were not routed properly. The pickup lead wires would hit the bottom of the cavity and push one end of the pickup up preventing the pickups from lying flush. To get them flush the pickups allmost touched the strings. It took all of 5 minutes to route addtional clearance for the pickup wires. Now the pickups would lay flat in the cavities at any height.
I sorted out the wirering and replaced the 3 way switch. I added a coil tap mini toggle switch for the bridge pickup and a mini toggle phase switch.
Reasembled and it set up nicely. The neck has 24 frets. Nice! I added Schaller Straplocks as is my standard practice.
Back:
Body:
Controls:
Headstock:
Neckplate:
Strings are 10-46 with a 58 B string. It's a nice playing & sounding guitar.
7 string squiers???
