i found this when i was surfin around today-

In the Messenger Fuzz thread a Japanese blog links to a Bloom Collection where I saw a familiar image. It was an old patent illustration. I had seen it before when trying to research this aluminum guitar neck I bought at a thrift store for $3.00. The patent address is just a few miles away from where I live.

I always wondered if it was a Messenger as the headstock would have formed an M before it got hacked. Now I see that no known Messenger has an M headstock. Anyway, just thought I'd share....

I'm a Guitar player who hotrods guitars for myself and friends... A bass player I know wants me to rewire/hotrod a P-bass hybrid for him. The control plate he has, has two holes, we're adding a jazz bass pickup in the bridge position, and thinking about using two concentric pots for a volume and tone for each pickup. My question is... stock value caps or go bigger say .068 uf or 0.1uf ??? Thoughts?

for the past few weeks i've been thinking about a different kind of tone circuit for a project guitar. Essentially, the circuit inside the guitar would lead from the pickup (a Filtertron with L of 3.5H and DCR 15.37k), through a switch that selects from a few different capacitor values in series (to vary the resonant peak). I'd put a simple buffer before the volume control to keep it's resistance from interacting with the resonant circuit (and maybe add a variable resistor between the negative...

i ordered a warmoth body last week, and i have a local builder making me a custom neck. im not much of a single coil guy, but i had a g&l legacy at one point and i loved the tone controls especially compared to the standard fender setup...

however i cant find alot of information about how to do it... anyone have any schematics/advice/ thoughts/whatever?

any help would be appreciated!

guts are welcome :D

Boris

Has anyone traced the mec 3 band eq? Does anyone have a schematic for it?

Just to share. A friend ask me to repair it, few weeks ago... just a cutted trace. Enjoy

Does anyone have a schematic and pcb layout for a 3 band bass eq using jfet transistors?

Recently ran across a strat, IIRC early 80's vintage, that has this modular pickup system installed. Pups can be swapped out from the front of the guitar without removing strings, and is around a 5-10 second procedure. Pups available (with this guitar :D ) are a dual Lace Red sensor , Duncan HB, 57 PAF and a standard single coil. The pots are push pull for coil tapping on the buckers. This system is not your average enthusiast hack job, but has a bit of thought behind it. I am just trying to...

Hi!
I am currently rebuilding an old Supro Belmont guitar, but I don't have any information regarding the wiring...
I do have 1 picture of what is going on underneath the pickguard, but it isn't very clear. If anyone can help me out, I'd be extremely grateful!

Here's the picture a buddy of mine got off ebay, it's from an original Belmont:

And here's what I made of it:

Comments and thoughts are welcome!

Thanks a bunch. :D

Hey everybody!

I have been considering rewiring my strat, here are some ideas I have...

Replace the three knobs with push pulls to add/take out each pickup and have volume controls for each pickup (I NEVER use the tone control anyway)

On board effects yo!

Replace the pickups.

So, I was trying to brainstorm a new use for the 5 way switch... and that's the problem... nothing came to mind.
Any suggestions?!?!?!?

Thanks a ton!
(I know nobody missed me or noticed my lack of presence, but I...

From mother Russia to my room.........
some photos of this ugly and nice guitar........guts ...electronics

Boris :thumbsup

Hey!

So I wired a guitar up and all was well except no output from the bridge pickup.

It was giving a reading of 0 on the multimeter, the other two were reading about 5.6k. When I disconnected them from the ground (back of the pot) I am able to get a reading (also 5.6k) from the bridge.

All pickup ground wires are soldered together with another wire, and that wire is soldered to ground. So why is it since they are all sharing the same ground that this happens with the bridge pickup and not...

I stayed up late one night and reverse engineered this switch from the information on the website It uses a 2p6t switch to get a total of 16 different sounds from a strat, including all parallel, series and out of phase sounds. Check out the website for the chart of sounds and how the switch works. I put it in one of my old Strats and it works great.

Here's the wiring for the switch. Bridge + is the white wire from the bridge pickup. Bridge - is the black wire.

And you wire it into your...

Hello,
I want to change the wiring on a guitar, it's an old Vox guitar with built in effects, but I don't need one effect.
I don't use the wah wah effect so I've disconnected it, but the wiring does not works without it.
If I remove all of the wires of this effect, there is a problem because the electric circuit isn't closed.
The repeater is connected to the jack, the 2 other effects are connected to the pickups, but repeater and other effects aren't connected together.
I've joined the wiring...

Hi all. A short while ago I bought some new pots for my guitars. 6 in total for an Ibanez, a Jackson and an Aria Pro II, all with 1 vol/1 tone. The Aria and Ibanez have had noisy pots for years, I've been meaning to replace them but never got around to it until recently. The Jackson has a pair of Seymour Duncans in and I decided I wanted to coil tap them, so I got switching pots. I bought a set of pots from www.axetec.co.uk and began soldering the switching pots in my Jackson. Before this, the...

I was reading on here and thinking about large diameter hum-cancelling dummy coils like the Suhr Backplate system, and the wheels started turning...

Wouldn't it be cool to have a wireless system for your guitar that didn't require batteries?

The inevitable loss of efficiency as you increase the distance between coils could be offset somewhat by the fact that guitarists tend to stay on-axis with their speaker cab. If you placed the primary coil in the speaker cab and the secondary in the...

Not a stompbox but interesting.

Red and black conductors and a shield

Amp end - Red tip, Black to ground, no shield connection
Guitar end - Red tip, Black and shield to ground

Mine sound poor for reasons yet unknown but the shielding concept seems sound :wink:

Hi There,

Anyone has the Jimmy Page number 2 wiring including the two switches under the pickguard? I found tons but with just the 4 push-pull pots, but none inclusing the push-pull pots AND the two pickguard switches.
HELP!!!

I would like to rewire my guitar.....to sound like this

:slap:

Boris

I am currently developping an active bass preamp based on a pair of state variable filters. I need a voltage reference for the opamps. As the system uses 8 opamps (2 quads) and runs of a battery I want to keep the energy consumption down.
A TLE 2426 rail splitter has a far lower energy consumtion than a dedicated rail splitter but:
Is it noisy? Does anyone use these? Are there any problems with noise?

I see in the datasheet that with a 1uF on the noise reduction pin the noise is 30uV rms...