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As for "when am I ready?" You'll never be ready. It works in reverse, you become ready by doing it. - pmbomb
Trim pickup output cables to leave a reasonable amount of slack on them.
Some of the most popular pickup combinations are available ready-assembled on a scratchplate, including the controls. Changing is a matter of six or eight touches of the soldering iron. (Two jack socket contacts. Bridge ground. Maybe, a separate ground for cavity screening.)
Going this route is not cheap but it is easily reversible. As a bonus, your stock pickups, 'plate and controls assembly would have preserved the original height adjustments.
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I didn't do the neatest job but it all went surprisingly smoothly in the end and I learnt a lot in the process.
I used a cheap Antex HP40 that I got on ebay for £13 new.