GUYS GUYS GUYS I AM A FUCKING HERO ALRIGHT DIG THIS
SO. I was trying to make an adjustment to the middle pickup of my Squier Bullet so that the volume of each pickup would match up, right? Well, the screw hole on the plastic pickup mount (oh, Squier!) that's built into the motherfucker? Yeah, it stripped. Both holes.
So I cut off my strings, lifted the pickguard, cut off the pickup and all the wires for it, rewired the thing, and BAM, I have a Strat-shaped Telecaster with one volume/no tone.
Oh and there's a nice little Van Halen-esque void where the middle pickup used to be :B