Lotza_Noize

Thanks to eveyone. That may work. I will give to the luther.

Just some quick observations:

1) you can't get 2, 3, and 4 in your first diagram all out of phase with a single switch, you will need at least two.

Do you mean have the 1st switch reverse the polls on the neck and 2nd switch reverse the polls on the bridge?

Correction there is a 5-way super switch (Now fixed in original post).

I have an H-H-H pickup configuration and my question is about how to wire these to the picture shown.

5-Way Super Switch selector. Plus 2 switches on the face (I will explain what each one does in a moment)

I want to have the neck humbucker and the middle (single coil humbucker) to 1 volume and 1 tone pot. And I want the bridge to be connected to just 1 single volume pot without any tone pot (3 pots total).

Now check out the picture.

You will notice that the 2nd, 3rd & the 4th position can be "out of phased" (On/Off for Switch #1). Also you will notice the lower section has the neck and the bridge humbuckers coil tapped (On/Off for Switch #2).

Seems real simple in concept to me. But it's real difficult to wire up.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Anyone have any idea on how to achieve this type of wiring configuration? Or am I just crazy for thinking this kind of $#!+ up?

So if the pickups were placed on top of one another about 1/4" apart. The magnets then would not be in an opposite flux. Therefore they could not degauss eachother. Then I guess they should be fine.

Great! Thanks y'all.

I guess I started something here.

Cool...thanks.

Spending $160 on pickups just to find out you just screwed them up, is not my idea of fun.

I own some Dimarzio Pickups. I placed 2 new replacement pickups on top of my old installed pickups for less than 30 seconds. I just wanted to see what they looked like with my paint job (cream and black vs. just black).

I have read that pickups need to be stored apart and preferably wrapped up and not touching. But keep in mind the new pickups were sitting on the strings and not in contact with the old pickups.

Anyways here is my concern. Did I do any damage to the pickups?

how about a full pic of that guitar, looks like a metallic swirl....

My Swirl Project Finished

Nice finish on that one Lotza. What are your impressions of the Trem Stop?

The trem stop is a little tough to push on. But I think that's just an adjusment thing. I usually dive bomb anyways. So I lock the Tremol-No to the "dive only" mode. That way I can have a hard tail feel with an option to dive.

I love this setup.

Looks great!. I love the rgs and anyone with a low pro edge!!!. Nice

Thank you. I spent alot of $$ to have it made.

These pictures represent 4 years in the make. The neck and body were originally purchased off an online auction site (guess which one). The neck is off an Ibanez Prestige RG 2570 (don't know the year). And the body was a project that someone didn't finish, but it was made out of Swamp Ash (exactly what I wanted).

I proceeded to shape the body to my liking and had a friend (Mike Nedd of Nedd guitars in Houston area) do the monkey grip and the later setup.

When it was time to paint it. I sent it to the world famous Herc Fede to do a custom swirl on it. The neck has a brown mirrored shark tooth inlay in it. So that got me thinking. So I had Herc swirl in Dark brown to match the Rosewood fret board, and then swirl in metallic copper, metallic brass, and metallic bronze. All 4 shades of brown came out beautifully, just as I envisioned it.

The bridge is an Ibanez Edge Pro. And the pups are DiMarzio Paf Joe (neck), DiMarzio Chopper (middle), and a DiMarzio Tone Zone (bridge). There are two switches installed one makes the humbuckers in or out of phase and the other is a kill switch to the amp(s).

Oh and before people ask me about what's installed in the spring cavity. Yes, that is a Tremol-No and an ESP Trem Stop installed together. One does one job and the other does another. I plan on doing this same thing to all my trem equipped projects.

All-in-all. I am very happy with how this guitar came out. It sounds so nice. And it feels great to hold it.

Thanks to all who helped on this forum and all beyond.

-Blake

looks ok to me, is the guitar fspaced ? (53mm string spacing)

what do the pickup pole pieces measure ?

53mm for fspace

48mm for non fspacing

OMG! Your right. It is NOT f-Spaced! It's at 48mm (1.89"). Dimarzio put the wrong pickup in the box. And I had it wired up and everything.

Thanks for the heads up. This time i'm going to make sure it is 53mm pole to pole.

I purchased the Tone Zone as an F-spaced pickup. And it arrived with the correct sticker "F-Spaced" on it. But I don't think this is an F-Spaced pickup. I could be wrong though.

Is this normal?

You could just glue it into place. dont have to approach it as the original manufacturer intended. Modify it to make it work as you see fit.

Gluing it in place? That might work better.

So that would act like a set neck, right?

I guess I could really modify the rear of the body if I was making it a set-neck.

could you remove some from the heel too?

I feel a little apprehensive of removing material from the heel of the neck.

Tonight, I'm going to check the thickness of the material below the neck pocket joint.

you say no neck plate - but is it still a bolt-on?

I would not go less than 1/2" on a bolt-on, but could go thinner on a set-neck.

Oops...Yes, it is a bolt on.

The body is from the new 2010 Ibanez GRGA model. It's an arch-top mahogany body with an Edge 3 route. I am replacing all the components with high end stuff. Prestige RG neck off an Ibanez 2570 E, Edge Pro Trem, Etc.

I had to modify the neck route a bit. The neck is called a "U" shape route. My neck needed an AANJ. So I modded it. But the neck joint on the original was about 3/16" thinner at the neck joint than the Prestige RG Neck replacement. Or in other words, my Prestige RG neck sits 3/16” higher in the GRGA neck pocket.

So this means I have to remove 3/16" deeper into the body. The body is very thin to begin with.

Thank you for the info WezV. I hope this works.

I have searched the forums and I can't find this specific question answered. But I may be wrong.

I'm doing a custom body made out of Mahogany. It's actually a very light (weight and color) piece of mahogany. It's a 6 string 25.5 scale with a tremolo.

Question:

What is the minimum material (mahogany) that is needed in the neck pocket without using a neck plate? It's getting very thin there. And I need to know before I spend money for this piece of light mahogany goes to the painter. Only to find out that the neck joint will split and crack and break.

Thanks in advance.

Not that i've seen but the importers over here are WD Music (just checked the US company site and they don't appear to carry Gotoh). Try to find the importer and fire them a mail, you never know, they might have a couple kicking around.

I've got a couple I could let you have but snail mail from London to Texas could take a while

Mind you have you tried it with only two of the existing springs ? I've made a couple of guitars for Kevon Dillard over there (the Intellishred and Arpeggio Madness auther) and he only uses 2 springs and i've used just normal strat springs and it's not like it's all floppy (!?*!?*).

Personally I use three but i'm a divebomber as oppossed to Kevin who's a flutterer......(and also 300 times a better player than me)

I may take you up on that offer. Thank you. Both of my guitars are at the painter at the moment. But as soon as I have the setup done on them, I may ask about them then.

Thanks

The springs that Gotoh supply with their 1996 Floyd's are stronger than 'normal' strat springs but they are also about 1/4" shorter which may or may not be a problem for you.

Does Gotch sell just the springs anywhere?

Need some advice on spring locations. I am going to have installed on my Ibanez both the Tremol-No device and 1 maybe 2 ESP Trem Stops. I would have to place only 2 springs at the very top and very bottom locations. And they will not be crossed. Just straight back off the tremolo.

Question is, do I need to have 3 springs? What may happen if I just use the two and the top and bottom? Are there stronger tremolo springs out there?

Need some advice please.

Thanks in advance.

Anyone ever dealt with Scott Dixon Cases? http://www.scottdixoninc.com/

Are they worth the price?

Did you get your stuff in good shape?

Please only serious answers please. I've gotten some BS responses before (not on these forums, but still...please).

If its just to protect from women why not put your guitar building skills to good use and make a nice wooden cupboard with a lock? make sure you leave enough room to expand the collection or possibly to hide in?

does it have to be a attractive? because a flight case might do? then if the need to flee arises you can give it a hefty push and jump on (need to get one with wheels or you'll look pretty stupid!)

and if you wanted to spend money how about getting wall mounted individual guitar boxes with toughened glass forntage that would look ace and you'd be able to see your beautiful guitars (possibly a bit to hard rock cafe/planet holywood!)

despite the bad humour i think these a three pretty good ideas and with the exception of the the latter probably a bit cheaper than a dedicated guitar/gun vault although i do think the gun vault is a good idea!)

If it were me i'd want to see them I'd go with glass fornted wall cases if i had any valuable guitar that is!

Axe + Matches = No more Capboard/Guitars

Flight Case may work. Safe better.

Well I have young kids and a wife that (if she got mad enough) may destroy some of my stuff. I don't want people destroying my precious things, especially my guitars.

I need a safe/vault. Anyone use one?

I think you may have problems that a vault won't fix.

True. But...What I am dealing with.

Well I have young kids and a wife that (if she got mad enough) may destroy some of my stuff. I don't want people destroying my precious things, especially my guitars.

I need a safe/vault. Anyone use one?