The fret numbers have been tricky to remove! Cellulose thinners just takes the black ink off them, leaving white squares. I've had to shave them off individually with a Stanley blade.
They must have been on a while as there are tanlines:
I'm stripping the neck a lot more carefully and slowly than I did the Epi EB-1, which I mostly did with a Mouse sander. I'm using Stanley blades and various grits of sandpaper to get back to white wood.
I'm not sure why the tuner mounting screws have bled out into the wood like this. My plan is to use Grover Titans on this bass.
The original pickup halves exploded on me when I tried to remove them from the bass. They weren't Dimarzio Model Ps, but some sort of offshoot/licensed copy. I removed the pole pieces to clean them and the whole pickup fell apart into the top and bottom flatwork and the coil. There was no spacer or bobbin, just the wire wound straight around the threaded poles. No signs of wax potting, etc.
I've replaced them with these 'PAF' Dimarzio Model Ps.
Old and dirty, so I'm going to try and either clean up or replace the poles.
I also have this cued up for the neck position:
This is the first Model One I've seen in the flesh, and the quality is a bit weird. it looks like the cover was crudely sprayed with matt enamel paint. The guts of the pickup are hidden in a rough epoxy box. This is a new pickup, so I'm assuming this is just how Dimarzio have always made them?