Tim37

I would like to chime in here My first guitar was a squier (not sure were it was made and i dont have it any more) the tuners where bad the trem was worse but that can be replaced. a friend of mine had painted several guitars and the one he had to sand all the way down looked like that cheap asian mahogany (its not mahogany but looks a lot like it) as far as asian guitars go hey why not i have a schectar i paid around 400 for and i love it is a good looking guitar and i love the feel of it. i also have a low end dean that is an amazing guitar for 80 bucks ok its cheap every thing about it is cheap but some how it works out to be a really cool cheap guitar it does need tuners and pickups (im working on that and a few other things right now) any way as far as a squier my main complaite was the neck was really narrow at the nut i have long fingers and kinda like a wider thick neck.

looks like that too me solvent poping it happens when there is too much paint and solvents get traped in they have to go somewhere and sooner or later they will come out.

is the bridge grounded good i know its kinda elementry but if the wire wasnt on good at the bridge you may not have even noticed before.

yeah its pretty much a switch monster i don't play on stage and never intend too so im not sure but it seems to me that all those switches would get in the way and maybe confusing but i guess it would be ok to have one set up like that to play around with.

i think your in for a true switch monster i personaly am not oppossed to except you can clutter up a guitar very quickly thats where my liking for wiring and electronics clashes with my liking for clean and simple. anyway http://www.1728.com/guitar.htm has a lot of cool wiring tricks and mods i think you might find page three interesting it has a wiring diagram for a 3 humbucker set up. i don't think you are gonna find an exact wiring diagram so your probably gonna have to make one up good luck and enjoy.

Sounds like a nice little project it should make them do enough research to make them work but won't be overwhelming for the kids just be careful i have found a lot of dwg's out there. but hey as far as design i think you could have every one on this board build a double cutout guitar and every one would be unique sounds fun to me.

1500 grit on a da works pretty good it makes it more of a flat finish me and a friend of mine played around with it a little on the hood of my car trying to do some flat strips on a other wise gloss hood with not edges it worked fairly well but didn't have time to finish so just buffed it all back out. btw that we where working with fairly fresh dupont paint i dont know exactly what grade. but i wouldn;t try that with just some spray paint laquer does wierd things.

i was either thinking do something like this http://www.diycustomamps.com/rem_champ.htm or be lazy and basicaly buy a pedal kit and put it in front of it in the amp chasie

no big thing you just cant split them is all. hook them up like a single

well i have been considering building another encloser for it i found some dynamite boxes that i think would be cool that means building a new chassie if i do that i may do some things too it i have looked at adding another gain stage and making a volume and master with a tone i think i woudl be truely happy with it then. i will tell ya you it is pretty awsome to hear your own amp even if your lacking in playing ablity like me.

try wiring up the battery directly to the pickup and then do away with every thing except that out put jack that will be the simplest way of having it wired if it doesnt work then i would say the pickup got dammaged.

https://www.carvinguitars.com/products/sing...oduct=VINTAGE16 this is about the best deal i have seen on a tube amp either that or weber and turretboards.com both have nice kits but if you buy a kit i suggest doing some reading and learn a little more about electronics i build a little 5f1 and it about drove me nuts for a couple of days. and to be honest if i had seen that carvin first i would have probably thought about it because its not much more than what i have in that champ and it has a lot more features you know more that a volume knob.

ok this is gonna take some sodering but it will help you track down the problem just remove as many elements out of the cuircit as possible wire one pick up at a time so that it is directly to the output jack and then check to see if it works then add in the switch and check every thing with both pickups going then add in the volume and then lastly the tone. it will take a little time to go througth this but you will work out any bad parts that way.

not trying to be a smart ass here but do a little research on electic motors generators and transformers. a pickup is basicaly a generator. the motion of the string makes the magnet vibrate, the the vibrating magnetic field causes and electrical current in the wire and well the amplifier just amplifies that. any way if you use a weak magnet you will get a weak field and there for a weak signal if you use a larger wire you won't get as many turns around the magnet and so you won't get as strong of a signal, and im not sure but i don't even thing you will get a signal with a faris metal but like i said im not sure. now if you could find some really light gauge gold wire that could be interesting because it has less resistance than copper so you could use a lighter wire and get the same amount of power so and so you could get even more turns and that means even more power out of the pickup. btw any one feel free to correct hell i dont' know, i just know a little theory.

could you not just use a strat style switch then wire it up a little wierd so theat maybe the bridge pick up was the center postion then you could maybe just kick it all the way down for your middle and you would still be able to mix the bridge and the neck pickups? idk if that made much sence to anybody except me.

oh boy its been about ten years so let me see you will be able to use 4 .5 watt 40k ohm resitors in parallel to get the same as a 10k ohm 2 watt

never mind

http://www.projectguitar.com/ref/wire.htm Seymour Duncan has a lot of standard wiring diagrams for just about any configuration you want and if you are wanting somehting a little more unusual you can just try a google search something is bound to be out there that suits you.

is the plug on the pick ups right its easy to get them on backwards?