slidincharlie

I am looking for a neck Guild "mini-humbucker" pickup for my '66 Starfire. It's the two-screw type used through the Sixties, a little smaller than the later full-size hb. I don't care if the mounting hardware (ring, screws, springs) is missing: I need only a perfectly working neck pickup. E-mail me: carlopip_at_tiscali_dot_it --Carlo

I've found that the neck pickup has got something wrong: it reads 0.L (open?) on my DMM. It sounds apparently normal (maybe brighter than expected, but not weak); could this apparent internal problem be the cause of the odd behaviour of tone pot describd above? --Carlo

I jumpered the two non-grounded lugs of the master pot, but I could not bypass it! The master works normally even with the two lugs shorted... What's wrong? --Carlo

Because I always like to deal with only one volume knob in my guitars. Thus, either I keep the stock master, or I wire my guitar durectly with one volume and two tones. --Carlo

Hi, I'm new here. I'm not a guitar builder, but I like to do small jobs (wiring, general setup, etc.) in my guitars... I have a problem with the neck tone pot in my guitar that is driving me crazy . Hope someone can help me. The guitar: my '66 Guild Starfire V, wired with the hot lead from the pickups going to the center lug of the volume pots, like stock. Link to the schematic The problem: the sound of the neck pup gets thinner and weaker (instead of getting darker) when I roll off the neck tone pot. This happens now with a new 300k tone pot as it happened with the old (500k?) pot. This does not happen with the bridge pup. The neck and the bridge pup/pots assemblies are identical. The tone cap is a .022 orange drop. The neck volume pot works beautifully. I have tried a different wiring and two or three different caps to no avail. An update: the neck tone works normally when both pups are engaged. It works oddly as described only when the neck pickup alone is engaged... :-/