Thanks for the link to the Musicmaster, looks like it turned out to be a beutiful guitar. Weird about the volume pot...
To ask about something else... you said you've heard bad things about jap pickups... does that only apply to Jazzy pickups? Because I am looking to drop a pair of jap Mustang pickups into my Jagmaster in a couple of months time...
Also, I might be doing a refin on a Telecaster soon, and a friend of mine just finished paining his car (a vintage MG) almost the exact same colour as the MM. Very tempting...