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  1. Man, I come back here twice after a long long time away and both times I find news of a PG regular passing on.. So sad, so sad. My most sincere condolences to the family and loved ones.. Sigh.
  2. Wow.. It's been a long, long time since I've been back here.. Here's my little contribution.. For those interested in DIY effects: GeoFex Aron's Stompbox Page General Guitar Gadgets Tonepad +1 for DGB Studio, by the way.. Awesome site...
  3. Having mucked about with LEDs while experimenting with effects pedals, I can suggest using a trimpot or the like to control the voltage to your LEDs.. That way, you can go for a bright one and then subsequently limit the brightness by using the trimpot as a sort of dimmer.. mcd is a unit of brightness?? Not 100% sure but I kinda recall that it is.. A candela or something like that..
  4. That's EM interference you're picking up.. The Jewish songs, I mean.. Not too sure about the screaming.. Anyways, I think it's because of the container you're using.. Nice idea, but it doesn't provide adequate shielding.. 2 ways you could fix this: 1) get a metal casing (expensive) or, 2) line the inside of the container with aluminium foil.. Just make sure that the foil is electrically 'continuous'.. Unless I'm mistaken, that should help cut out the Jewish radio stations..
  5. If it's just swapping out the stock pickup for a new one, it should be quite simple, especially since you already know how to use a soldering iron.. Plus, you'll be learning something new.. If you know how to read those wiring diagrams off the various sites (the Fender site has their stock wiring diagrams), all you need to do is just follow the instructions and you should be set.. Just remember to use a flux cored solder and to make sure your iron's not too powerful.. I'm using a 40W iron and, if I'm not wrong, that's already a little on the high side.. Good luck!!
  6. With regard to the string changing, I almost always remove all the strings when I re-string.. Never had problems with the truss rod.. The only time you may have to adjust the truss rod would be when you change string gauge.. As for the Strat style tremolo, it'll save you quite a bit of annoyance if you tune the strings from the centre out.. In other words, D G A B E e.. Theoretically, building up the tension from the centre would let the string tension act evenly on the trem.. This works especially well for Floyd Rose trems and the like..
  7. Yeah, I usually tape it up with the electrical tape.. Of course, you've got to have a wire running from the shield to star.. Like Lovekraft said, it's to prevent the star from coming into contact with something else..
  8. Well, I suppose you could use the push/pull as a volume on/off.. The tone could be push for tone on 10, pull for tone on 1 or something like that.. I don't see that as very useful, though, given the sort of electronic trickery you could potentially pull with a push/pull pot..
  9. Yep.. I second that.. He should be able to provide you with all the dimension you need for the hole etc..
  10. Yeah, I did that before.. Caused a heck of a buzz, much like a single coil in an unshielded cavity.. That may be something you could try 'cause it sounds a lot like what you've got.. However, the Green to ground and Black to live etc sounds pretty much correct which is rather puzzling.. Still, it's a possible course of action.. As for checking with a multimeter, it'll generally only tell you whether there's a short circuit or a break somewhere in your wiring.. You could double-check the grounding wire to the bridge and see if you circuit is properly grounded to the guitar's bridge.. Hope that helped..
  11. I'm not agreeing with either opinion or the other, but may I offer the suggestion of a material's attentuative properties? I know different materials have different coefficients of attentuation which would effect the transmission of sound or signal energy differently from material to material.. Also higher frequency signals are attenuated (amplitude decreased) more that the lower frequency signals.. A possible theory to explain a difference in the sound would be that the signals are attentuated more on the cheaper jacks while the more 'transparent' sounding jacks would allow a signal through with less attentuation.. On the other hand, a counter argument could be, firstly, that the distance travelled through the jack by the signal is negligible compared to the distance travelled through the rest of the wiring, so much so that the difference in tone would be almost impossible to detect unless you've got Superman's ears.. Secondly, the difference in the magnitude of attentuation between the highest and lowest frequencies possible from a conventional guitar may also be audibly negligible.. I've got no way to test this without proper equipment, so this remains purely a theory.. Or two.. Personally, I've not noticed a significant tone difference between jacks.. Maybe I'm deaf, maybe I haven't used good jacks, who knows? By the way, isn't this in the wrong area of the forum??
  12. Hmm.. Not 100% sure what you're looking for but wiring up the 3 pickups with a 5-way switch would be exactly the same as wiring a normal Strat with 3 single coils just that you'd want to solder the black and white leads for the DiMarzio and the red and white leads for the Seymour Duncan together.. That is, assuming you want all 3 pickups series humbucking.. You should be able to find the Strat wiring off the Fender site.. Oh, and treat the red for the DiMarzio and the black for the Seymour Duncan as the hot leads and the green for the DiMarzio and the Seymour Duncan as the ground leads.. Also, don't forget to solder the bare wires to ground too.. Hope that helps..
  13. I think you should just try winding your own pickups with wooden bobbins.. Like the others have mentioned, there are just too many things that could go wrong.. Besides, since you'll be getting old pickups, as you said, you could even scavange some of the magnets and what not from the old pickups.. Saves you having to buy new pickup parts.. Thorn Guitars did something like that on more than one of his guitars, if I'm not mistaken.. Here's one of 'em..
  14. Looks good.. I kinda like it more than the desert burst, actually..
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