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  1. Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I tought it'd be better than starting a brand new one. I am trying to make a guitar as cheaply as possible, and am planning to use polystyrene (or similiar cheap packaging foam) as the body, and coat it with regular white paint for structure and stability.Additionally, I am ordering a cheap pre-wired pickguard (for a stratocaster, as that is what it will turn out as). My question, however, is this: What would you guys reccomend for mounting the pickguard to the polystyrene? And, how would you suggest I make the neck, or alternatively, should I mount a regular guitar-neck into the polystyrene? Also, I was hoping to make it around the size of a G#-guitar (http://www.g-sharpguitar.com/?CatID=1444), are there places that sell pre-made ukulele necks (or, necks that size anyways)? Any comments and suggestions would be very much appreciated.
  2. As on many cheap guitars (and expensive too), there are buzzing (electrical noise present when the guitarist himself is not in contact with the strings, and work as the grounding), also in my Epiphone Les Paul-100 (which cost me roughly 500 bucks, so not a high-end guitar so to speak). I've looked inside it, it's wired with two single-coil epiphone humbucker pickups, running to each of their volume knob, and supposedly a tone pot for each (makes no difference at all in anything when turned to high or low) and a small green capacitor each (haven't managed to see it's specifications) and then of course to the jack. Now, when the gain is as much as halfway up on my Roland 30x-cube amp, it is very noticeable that there is noise when I am not in contact with the strings (a lot of the noise also goes away when I am in contact with the jack cable of course, or even when I am touching one of the screws at the back of the guitar). To try to remove some of the noise the cheap way, I took some copper wire from the strings between the brigde and the saddle to the jack, but still the noise only lowers when I am in contact with the string itself. I read on some site (forgot to save the link :/) that the grounding wire from the bridge on this guitar is not connected anywhere, but dumped underneath it, and thought that I could perhaps fix it that way, but I just got new strings, and would hate taking them off if that rumor was false. Could anyone confirm if this actually is the case with the ground wire from the bridge? And any suggestions on how to lower the noise would be very much appreciated, also comments on what wire is what in this guitar (I think the white wire on the jack is the ground, and the black is the hot, but not really sure, and don't want to destroy anything) would be nice.
  3. I think you just take all the ground wires and run them along for the ground on the output jack, shouldnt be a crisis if the bridge/tremolo is or not.
  4. Do you want a technical diagram or a theoretical one? For a technical one: This one shows the connection with one pickup and a volume for it, so you could just do the connection twice and have the wires end in the same output jack. Another alternative could be this one, which shows a connection with two pickups - just leave out the tone pots and have it go straight from the capacitor. Both of the links above are to humbucker pickup diagrams, which is suitable as both the DiMarzio X2N and the Super2 are humbuckers style pickups.
  5. As far as my technology knowledge goes (thats to google.com), the capacitor could go anywhere in the chain, I just chose to have it after the tone pot to have a methodical view of the setup. I am glad that it was of some help to you.
  6. Theoretically thinking, I think this would work: Neck p-90 -> Volume Pot 1 -> 3-way switch -> Tone Pot 1 -> Capacitor 1 -> Output Jack Humbucker -> Volume Pot 2 -> Tone Pot 2 -> Capacitor 1 -> Output Jack Bridge p-90 -> Volume Pot 1 -> 3-way switch -> Tone Pot 1 -> Capacitor 1 -> Output Jack So that both p-90's are controlled by "Volume Pot 1", and the humbucker by "Volume Pot 2". The p-90's go through the switch, making the neutral switch position (in the middle) use both of them, and the alternative positions use one pickup each. Also 1 tone pot for the p-90's and one for the humbuckers (you could probably use 1 for all of them if you wanted) and a capacitor (or many if you want) to remove noise, then it goes to the output jack. This way, you can totally remove the humbucker at the start by just turning its volume down to zero, and flip to any of the p-90's and play just one of them, or just the humbucker by turning down the p-90's volume.
  7. And this post alone would be another arguement for people not wanting to move to the USA.
  8. Does Stewmac ship from the UK to Europe?
  9. Are P-90's single-coil? If so any schematic showing the combination of a humbucker and two singles with the controls you want should work. I'm sure I could draw it up for you if needed.
  10. Look up whatever diagram that suits your situation here: Guitar Electronics Do you plan on using three P-90's or two? Let's say you wanted to use two, and tone and volume for them plus a switch. As far as I can remember, P-90's are single-coil, so you'll need a single-coil schematic, like this: 2 single coils, 3-way lever switch, 1 volume, 1 tone. Typical Tele style guitar wiring
  11. Someone should definately make a sticky post including info like this, I spent days trying to figure out what electronics I needed for a guitar. And virtually no site has a understandable explanation of what goes to what and what each component does and where it is placed, just like the wiring diagrams - hard to understand for someone never done electrics before, and didn't pay much attention in physics class.
  12. Just out of curiosity, was that sound any good?
  13. Ok, but is it technically possible to connect pickups straight through to the output jack? Are the components marked with italian not "required"? Pickups -> Switch/Selector -> Tone Controls -> Capacitor -> Volume Controls -> Output Jack And could I ideally get a clean good sound by dropping tone controls but keeping capacitor? So basically it will pre-filter certain frequencies based on the capacitors, and not use the tone control.
  14. Read some of the stuff from guitarnuts (after being refered to eBay and other companies for each click), must say it is rather confusing. After some massive googling, I found guitarelectronics.com, where they had some simple-to-understand wiring diagrams (not the standard "professional-electrician" ones, but understandable for the DIY user) and read some about it on Stewmac.com, who explained the basics of the components. So, as far as I can figure it, it goes like this: Simple: Pickups -> Switch/Selector -> Tone Controls -> Capacitor -> Volume Controls -> Output Jack Explained: Pickups (picks up vibration to turn into sound) Switch/Selector (choose which pickup you play on) Tone Controls (choose tone level) Capacitor (remove noise by blocking frequencies, different capacitors will block different frequencies) Volume Controls (choose volum level) Output Jack (connects to the amplifier to produce the sound) If anyone could confirm this (that this is all the components needed for a standard electric guitar, and that the order is logical), then that would be really helpful.
  15. After reading up on guitar electrics I am still confused about how to wire a guitar. I know that some wires go from pickups to somewhere, but where is that somewhere, and what is that something that brings sound from pickups to the output jack? Any explanation (with pictures from a guitar) would be great!
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