hi, i just want to know if worth the value to put a good set of picks, in a plarme deluxe guitar,it was my first guitar and i have an special feeling about it, but still sound like crap, so i though that with a good set of pick(not active ones) and may later with a good floyd rose bridge the guitar can sound at least decent, i want to fix it for sentimental reason, was my first guitar after all, i still remenber the day i bought it, and maybe sometimes i play with that for practice or...

My friend has a Les Paul with the standard humbucker configuration (2 pickups, 4 vol/tone knobs, 3 way selector, output jack). But, it has a middle pickup added, and the middle pickup is on a DPDT switch for on/off. So the 3 way selector switch stays the standard configuration, and the middle pickup can be thrown in/out of the mix at any given time.

The guitar needs to be rewired. Does anyone know where I can find a wiring diagram for this?

So I've got this Epi LP from Craigslist that's got the wiring buggered up - all 4 knobs control the volume? There's probably 20 ways to wire an LP. Could anyone recommend a normal/conventional way to wire it? Also, it does NOT have split pickups.

Also the PU selector switch sometimes goesn't work in the bridge position (just get nothing). Can anyone recommend a decent replacement? (from a US supplier)

I don't know a thing about guitar wiring despite all my pedal work. So any advice is...

I've just installed a set of Tone Rider 'Hot Tele' pups on a project Tele - and they are very tasty (despite being Chinese made).

The neck pickup, unfortunately, was dead on arrival - but the shop replaced it immediately, and the replacement was just fine.

All in all, great Tele tone with a bit more bite, and without the harshness - for about £60 (UK).

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I have a Tele with a problem that has plagued me for years, and never found a resolution. I thought I'd ask for help here where people are knowledgable about electronics.

The bridge pickup, without fail, goes completely silent. To get sound back, it requires that I poke at the circuit with a multimeter. As soon as I observe the connections with the multimeter (a) it always measures correctly (b) it begins working, usually for about a half hour, before it goes out again.

Again, the only...

Hello all. I got annoyed with my Carvin Icon's preamp switch being the instrument cable/stereo jack. I don't feel like removing the instrument cable every time I'm done playing to avoid battery drain. Therefore, I'm going to add a rotary switch to control the preamp on/off function while still leaving the bass' factory look in tact.

At the same time, I will take the opportunity to completely rewire and re-shield with copper conductive coating, silver epoxy and single conductor shielded 18 awg...

Alright, here is my contribution to the site. I had a friends carvin Icon bass to replace the opamps due to no polarity protection and figured I would take a few pictures in case anyone is interested. is the preamp that comes standard on the Icon and Lb series bases. I have aded a protection diode and socket-ed the opamps.

Came across a '78 Ibanez MC 400 with the original onboard EQ removed and replaced by a Starr switch onboard unit , and cannot find ANY info on it, If anyone has anything such as wiring diagrams, etc. I would be most grateful.

Hi everyone,

I just recently bought myself a Fender LSR Roller Nut from eBay which I'm going to use to replace the existing nut on my Mexican Standard Strat, and I was just wondering if anyone has had any experiences with one of these good or bad, there's a 3-part series of videos on youtube dealing with installing an LSR Roller-Nut on a Strat, it looks easy enough and I feel confident enough to do the installation myself, since I have some formal training as a Fitter and Machinist, and I...

My mate showed me a lap steel guitar that he'd made. It looked pretty simple, so I decided to have a go.

I found an offcut slab of oak on eBay, 45mm thick, 95mm wide, and 920mm long - almost perfect for what I needed, except it was a tad too long - the final guitar is about 800mm long.

With a load of old guitar bits (Tele bridge plate/pickup, and Strat tuners, volume pot, neck plate and slanted jack socket) and a few other odds and ends, I had enough for the project.

I made the 'fretboard'...

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I've token some photos of Noll Mixpot 1, and tryed to redraw the shematic. As all can be seen without opening anything, it's not a problem to show this on the forum, is it ? I'll delete files if it is.

It's a active blend pot with two separate input stage with +18db trim gains and a output buffer.
There's not many active blend without eq. The only other one i know is emg abc, but seems only to be two buffers.
I'm really newby in electronic. There's maybe some mistake. It's seems me a...

I posted a chromacaster workalike using a six position rotary switch on here a couple years ago which I installed in a couple of my guitars. I never really got used to it. I could never remember the different settings and only really used a few of them anyway. I decided to simplify things by just having a push/pull with the pickup selector to get the series and parallel sounds I wanted. I couldn't find a schematic for what I wanted out there, so I put this together. It uses a Super Switch and...

I've been working on a project guitar with my father this weekend involving an H S H with Clapton Midboost and TBX tone. We've done two clapton mid boosts before in two different strats and have enjoyed them a lot. I know the tonality of the clapton mid boost is applied best for single coils, but having a +25 gain on humbuckers could be kind of fun too despite the overkill so we decided to go ahead with it. There wasn't a whole lot of diagrams online referencing how to get this type of thing...

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Hehe... didja think it was a flying V? Well this ones got a lot of things wrong but I wanted to post a before picture.
May change the scale, electrics are trashed, missing a few bits, lacquer is cracking... Time for disassembly and a mild stripping. Still dreaming of mods for my J.Mascis but it plays fine and I've wanted one of these bodies for a while...

Hey guys,

I have this Tiesco pickup I'm trying to patch up for a buddy that has intermittent operation (the pickup, not the buddy). It's not the typical gold foil you see around; quite a bit different. I pulled it apart to look for a bad solder joint or something, and it's got really strange construction methods going on in there. The ground lead is soldered to the casing, the coil is wrapped in paper, and the hot lead just floats; it's not actually connected to anything, and it sure looks...

I have a strat with single coils. Tone on the neck and bridge pickups (middle is wide open). The volume control always works, although sometimes with a slight crackle. The tone controls work, but sometimes they don't seem to be in the circuit. I can roll them both down and nothing happens. Here's the thing, though. The volume works the entire time, and if I jiggle the volume knob there will be a crackle and then the tone controls are in the circuit again...for a while.

It's the standard strat...

I've got three Bourns 82 pots on the way to install in my strat.

There seems to be some confusion on how to install them, so I thought I'd just check with you guys I got the correct idea on hooking them up. I'm not an expert at all with this stuff so I might make some basic mistakes.

They'll be installed on a gold anodized pickguard, so that in itself serves as shielding and is conductive.

If I now take a typical wiring diagram , I would say these are the changes to make:

no extra wires...

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Recently I bought a Squier J Mascis Jazzmaster which I love but since I am not using the Rhythm circuit much, I am trying to find a way to do some mods to it, the ones that would include pretty much the functionalities depicted in this picture =>

I wondered if a similar thing could be done to the Jazzmaster? This is like perfection in my eyes. The jazzmaster would kill with these kind of options.

So, separate set of volume controls, and separate tone control set instead of the...

I know it's crazy... has an old Harmony neck and a piezo in the bridge full wooden box assembled inside of the cardboard one. Neck bolted in from the inside. I took the box apart so I could open the back... fair action but the truss rod access is inside the box... Sounds like a piezo acoustic, not bad.

I recently installed a set of ghost saddles and the acousti-phonic preamp into my Carvin. I am gettign tones of hiss even when both the mag and piezo volumes are turned down. I installe one of these on a friend's strat and do not remember having this much hiss. Is there any way to filter the hiss?

I've seen this done before, so.... I built a vibrati punk console and put it in a guitar subbing photo resistors for two of the pots. No problems there unit works fine. BUT, there is a big difference in volume. The VPC is way WAY louder, than the guitars pickups straight out... It's not the pickups, they're fine. I'm thinking maybe I need a buffer of some kind. something simple, I have a little room on the perf board still, maybe one jfet and some bits... I have an on/on/on microswitch wired in...