| Please note that these tutorials are the product of several authors both from the Project Guitar web site and also off site links. While there are many ways to do each of the jobs described, your way of achieving the same results may very from what is described in each of these tutorials. The authors have tried to be as complete as possible but do not take responsibility for the outcome or end result in following their work. If you have questions about anything you read here please join us in the Project Guitar Forum where you will receive many different views and can formulate your own path to choose working on your own Project Guitar. |
Electronics
| Adjusting Pickup Height : | Author Brian Calvert |
| Sixth step in setting up a solid body electric guitar | |
| Repotting pickups: | Author Kevin Johnson |
| How to safely repot your old pickups printer friendly version | |
| Repotting your pickups: | Author Brian Calvert |
| How to safely repot your old pickups with pictures to follow | |
| Solder Tips n Tricks: | Author Brian Calvert |
| Helpful tips while rewiring a guitar with a floyd rose trem printer friendly version | |
| Knob Removal: | Author Brett Grimes |
| How to safely remove a stubborn knob printer friendly version | |
| Ibanez Double-Edge Rewire: | Author Kevan Geier |
| Rewiring a Double Edge trem guitar with DiMarzio pickups printer friendly version | |
| Quick Cavity Covers: | Author Brian Calvert |
| How to build quick and easy cavity covers for your project printer friendly version | |
| Wiring schematics: | Author Brian Calvert |
| A collection of basic wiring schematics for a host of configurations | |
| Pickups: | Author Brian Calvert |
| Complete listing of popular pickup manufactures web sites | |
| Replacing Strat Pickups: | Author John Spina |
| Replacing Straocastor pickups step by step with diagrams | |
| Change A Bar Magnet: | Author John Spina |
| Replacing a Bar Magnet in a Les Paul type of humbucking pickup | |
| Checking DC Resistance : | Author John Spina |
| And Make a No Load Tone Pot | How to check the DC resistance and make a No Load tone pot (2 tutorials in 1) |
| Tweaking Pots : | Author John Spina |
| And 3 common treble bleed mods | How to get the value of your pots just right in a pinch (2 tutorials in 1) |
| Sustainer Modification : | Author Ansil Gregory |
| How to build your own Sustainer from parts found at Radio Shack | |
| Blend Knob Modification: | Author Ansil Gregory |
| How to alter the tone of your guitar with a simple modification | |
| Black Ice Overdrive with crunch: | Author Ansil Gregory |
| How to make your own overdrive circuit with a Tweed Amp Crunch sound | |
| 12 Way switch modification: | Author Ansil Gregory |
| How to give your guitar a 12 position option using push/pull pots | |
| Color Code on Unknown Pickup: | Author Bill Jehle |
| How to determine the color code for an unknown pickup |
| Interactive Forum
Tutorial and Reference Guide |
| Each
of these Reference guide and Tutorials will open up to the perspective Project
Guitar Forum thread |
| Want to TRY and build own pickups : | Topic Starter Alloyguitar |
| Tone Capacitors, values vs sound : | Topic Starter Rhoads56 |
| *denotes an off site tutorial which will open in a new window |
| Winding your own Pickups: | Web Site Designed2Wind |
| Great introduction and insight into building and winding your own pickups | |
| Sustainiac install : | Author Owen Kelly |
| Step by Step Sustainiac install on an Ibanez Jem 7 VWH |