Britrock

What is the purpose of string trees? They seem a little pointless to me...

Jeesh, at $1795 don't even worry if it plays well...

Or is that kinda morally wrong?

Standard to drop-d is easiest by playing open D (4th string) and tuning your 6th string to that. That way you have the D's the same, and then you can tune your A to that (that's the theory)

Damn, you guys make everything seem so easy and effortless on here. I'd love to build a guitar, but being as practically gifted as a dead horse (and skint), I think I'll give it a miss for a while and just watch you guys.

Great work.

and to prove the fast thing, here is 128mph limitedd in the A3 from Wurzburg to Frankfurt Autobahn.

Sorry to go OT, but I love the fact that at 128mph, you were able to take a photo of your speedo!

I would just drill and tap the holes in the Motherbucker to fit the Pacifica screws.

I'd love to, but being 17, and my dad not being a DIY fan, I don't have many tools at my disposal. And I'd only mess it up anyway, leaving me with a broken p'up.

Now that sounds interesting. PM coming your way.

1/4th of an inch is 6.38 mm

if you want 2mm thats about 5/64ths of an inch, i dont think thats what you need. Use the 1/4 inch ones, thier made for humbuckers, so im sure they would fit a motherbucker

6.38mm thick? If so, they're 3x too big, they're officially not going to fit. Trust me, I've measured the screw hole, it's 2mm. The guy I bought them off even said that's the thickness I need.

I think my best bet may be to check out an electrical store in town, and maybe the hardware store around my area.

being in the UK?

And can anyone decode those measurements for me? They just make me feel stupid.

Gah, imperial measurements!

I think this would be what I want, but it doesn't say anything about the thickness of the screw (if it does, please explain it to me, I moved to metric a while back ).

I guess stewmac ship worldwide, being in the UK?

And thanks for the welcome, don't get that on many forums.

Try http://www.wdmusicproducts.co.uk/ for stuff. And www.axesrus.co.uk is highly recommended for service at another site I visit, they ship very quickly apparently (however dodgy their website may look ).

I bought a Kent Armstrong Motherbucker second hand a few weeks back, but the guy who sold it said he couldn't find the screws or springs. No problem I thought, the ones already holding my Pacifica p'up in will be the right size. Oh dear, how wrong. The ones for the old p'up are 3mm thick, the ones needed for the motherbucker are 2mm max. Damn.

So basically, the question is, does anyone know where to buy 2 x 25mm screws that should hold my pickup in place?

OK, this is really annoying me now. I swapped them round, and it's still backwards. Anyone got any ideas? The switch has 2 blades on the back, and is a normal on/off switch. I've tried connecting the wires up both ways round, and it's backwards both ways.

Ahhh, damn. I wired it backwards. And it comes with one of those little label things saying which way should be on and which off, so I've got to disconnect it and swap them round.

As I'm installng one of these myself, and I'm trying to avoid doing as much work as possible, I have a few questions:

Does the ground wire have to go to the ground part of the jack, or can I hook both the ground and signal up to one blade, and leave the other one empty, as when switched to, nothing will be selected, so there'll be silence.

Or can I hook a ground wire from the back of the volume pot to the other blade and then take a wire from the blade back to the volume pot, as that would be a grounded wire, and no signal would be found when selected?

Yes, I'm a noob to this, so if they're stupid ideas, I apologise. Just trying to save work, which would mean less to go wrong...

Hmmm, that seems to be sensible advice thinking about it... I'll see what happens.

I took it out and am in the process of replacing it with a kill switch. But what I wanted to know was, do I have to go out and get a resistor to replace it, or can I just not have a tone cap or resistor to simplify the wiring? (i.e. pickup to volume to kill switch to jack?)

Anyone know where I could buy this stuff in the UK?

It looks really cool, and as I'm doing over my Pacifica at the moment I imagine that'll be a reasonably cheap way to improve the current (horribly scratched) wood finish.