Tim37

Its probably a cover ground or shielding. Just run it to your ground

Yeah but if you google stripping a guitar it does come up

first thing i would do if i planned on swapping necks is get the new neck and fit it. Set the guitar up and make it playable.

As far finishing, i would put some laquer thinner on it just to test and make sure its not nitro (most likely it isnt) if it is you need to strip it. If not start by filling and repairing nicks scratches and dings and what ever else. Then scuff with 600grit then start spraying.

The heat gun blow torch method is a messing hard and unnecessary job.

The downside is that you are building paint on paint which may alter dimensions for things like the neck pocket, cavity covers, etc.

years ago i finished stripping a mim strat body someone else started (cheap ebay) to bare wood the factory finish was so thick that where the heal of the neck and body come together on the bottom doesnt line up any more. it doesnt effect the guitar but fender accounts for the finish thickness and under cuts there body to account for it.

I wouldnt strip it

Most factory guitars have some kind of bullet proof finish on them that will work great for a base coat with almost any finish out there. I would just fill any nicks or scratches scuff it real good and start spraying.

Thats my opinions im sure others will differ

You dont need to ground the strings and shielding with emg's in fact they say on there web site not too. You could be grounding through the pots if so use some electrical tape to insulate them.

The volume could be few things but specific to emg the pickups need to be closer to the strings. And if everything is right and your still not happy tiss in another battery and make it 18v

Also if your having problems with finding 25k ohm pots just use larger ones it wont hurt a thing.

I personaly wouldnt want clear, but im sure a lot of folks would

sweet im in.

People worry about tone way too much. A small piece of wood glued in a cavity will most likely have such a small impact on tone that you will never notice.

Oh sorry

im home and on my comp so i will get a little more detailed

first get some good springs if the springs dont return to there initial position nothing you will do will keep a trem in tune

second http://www.fender.com/support/articles/stratocaster-setup-guide/ set up your trem according to fenders site it works.

third watch the video

these three simple steps will make more difference than locking tuners and roller nuts and all that bs.

Try replacing the springs

I should have prefaced my comment by saying i got mine from guitar fetish. I dont know if that makes a difference they did say wilkinson on them

i had a set of Ez locks

they where very unimpressive infact i ended up replacing them with standard tuners

very cool

Your looking at it the wrong way. You say you will upgrade later. Think of it this way, starting with good hard ware means if u make a playable guitar you save money if your first build sucks (probably will most do) you gave good hardware for the next try.

I have to agree dont skimp on the trem tuners or truss rod. That being said if you like the looks of a vintage strat trem they arent all bad and set up properly can be made to stay in tune. I have a mim strat that will take a beating and stay in tune

It is actually pretty simple to understand. When you look at those charts you see the whole string and get confused. The pickup sees a very short section of string it just reproduces that movement.

Nevermind

Crusader as usual its a little more complicated than that but yes for all intents and porpoises you got it

I think the tweeker playing just doesnt know whats falling out of his mouth

Carbon fiber is pretty much the same process as fiber glass. You take a mold and put carbon fiber cloth and resin in and pop out your finished product (ok not that simple but very similar to glass)

I dont think its possible at this time to print carbon fiber.

An active pickup works just the same it just has a preamp built into the housing. If you took one apart you eould find a pickup and a small pcb with some transistors reaistors and capacitors nothing all that special

curtis pretty much nailed it if you want to learn a little more take a look at how a basic generator works. thats all a pickup is a generator.

when you pull a magnetic field across a wire it generates a electric current in a pickup the string pulls the magnetic field causing it to cross the coils. its really such a simple process that it amazes me how there are so many pickup designs

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If its gotten old and wont wick use some plummers flux on the wick then try it i put the wick between my iron and the solder

That said Get a solder sucker they work better atleast for me and over time cheaper.

ok i will bite and say wood plays more of a role than what you think. how much to be honest not that much more the pickup is still gonna be the deciding factor and i do think that people put way too much in to the tone wood thing wood is wood is wood some is good for building guitars some isnt tone has nothing to do with it thats easly corrected with a choice pickup and the eq knobs on your amp.

the amp now thats where i think people should pay more attention to there tone guys who will spend hours researching woods and pay tons of money for the "right guitar" then just throw it though some cheezy modeling amp or digi pedal that makes all guitars sound the same. that doesnt make since to me.

if that ramble doesnt make any since its because i have been up since yesterday morning its bed time.