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I have a cheap Yamaha with a H-S-H, 1 vol, 1 tone combination. Originally I intended to replace the neck humbucker with a MightyMite humbucker that I had from another project and replace the original tone control with a push pull pot that I have so I could a single coil neck tone. However, after completely confusing myself with diagrams from the internet that were hard to follow and so on I've ended up completely removing the wiring from the guitar. What I really need is a diagram for wiring the guitar so that the neck can be coil split using the push/pull tone pot and putting back the rest of the wiring correctly. The wires from the MightyMite humbucker are red, white, black and blue and the other slightly larger black wire (I'm pretty useless with wiring incase you hadn't gathered). So if anyone could give me a clear diagram for wiring my guitar in the way mentioned above that would be a great help. I'd rather do it myself to save the money and learn for future. Thanks.

I'm just gonna make the template from whatever is left in the workshop. It could be plastic or plywood. As for the way I went about doing it, you might not understand what I explained if you've never used Adobe Photoshop. All I did was basically find a computer image of a guitar part such as a pickup that was actual size then enlarged a front-on computer image of a guitar I found on google. I then resized the picture of the guitar until the pickup on it was the same size as the one that was actual size. I then made sure all the other sizes on the guitar were fairly accurate and printed it out. It's hard to explain in really simple terms

I did basically what he's talking about here in my planning. It's a PRS Singlecut shape with some minor alterations. I got a front on image of a PRS Singlecut from the internet, I took into account that there might be some perspective in the photo. I put it into photoshop and to do it accurately I found the exact size of a component on the guitar, I think it was a pickup ring. Then I pasted another pickup ring that was actual size as a new layer and resized the guitar in the background until the pickup ring on the guitar was the same size as the pickup ring I had pasted. I then split up the image and printed it out in sections, cut it out, then traced the contours onto my working drawing (whole guitar takes up 4 sheets of A3 accurately taped together). I made sure it was centered and it fitted exactly with the 25" scale neck I had already measured out precisely. Later on I found the dimensions for HxWxD of a PRS and it came to pretty well exactly the same as my drawing. As soon as I get into the workshop I'll be making a decent template from it.

Gonna have to bump my thread I have more questions, sorry . Anyways... Does anyone know how deep the carving is on a PRS Singlecut. I found a thread that gives the body thickness at the edge and the middle but not how deep. The reason I would like to know is not accuracy it's because I'd really like to do the top in a flame maple and the shop I should be getting the wood from sells guitar tops in 3/8" or 1" and obviously 1" is a fair bit more expensive. I'm guessing I should take the effect on the tone into account as well. I'm making the guitar 4.5mm thick (roughly 1 3/4") like PRS. So the thickness of the top is gonna determine the back. Also, on PRS guitars with a fixed strat type bridge does anyone know if the bridge is sloped downwards away from the neck by the body contour to avoid any neck angle at all? Also does anyone have any comments on the wood choice for a through neck guitar of maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, mahogany wings and maple top? Thanks again... (I can't promise I won't have more questions... I keep getting stuck seeing as it'll be my first guitar built by me )

Thanks, I think I'm pretty much sorted now, great help! I know some questions were stupid but it's better safe than sorry. Also, thanks wes that's what I was already doing just wanted to check. Cheers

Thanks genbloke, I'll think about it but it depends how quick they ship. I'll need the parts soon. If anyone could answer those other questions that'd be great. Eeek, just one more as well... At the moment I'm making my neck out of plain maple, the fingerboard from rosewood, the wings out of mahogany and the top out of flame maple. Can anyone comment on that combination?

Wow thanks you got pretty well all my questions, that's a huge help. I just have a few more things... sorry... With the bridge humbucker, even though it's preference, are there any guidelines anyone knows of for a 25.00" scale neck? And if I wanted to have the neck directly under the 24th as is most common, which part of it actually goes under the 24th or does it not matter so long as the humbucker is actually underneath it? How do you measure the fingerboard radius, and when you start work on it do you just sand away? Can you just sand until it feels right? And finally, how big I make the cavities and where I place the knobs/switches is completely up to me right? Sorry about all the questions, once I've got this one sorted there won't be any more annoying beginner questions from me. I just wanna be sure of what I'm doing. Oh yeah, I'm from England so I won't be ordering any parts from American sites thanks.

I've looked in so many places and I've not really been able to find out what I need. Sometimes it will give me an explaination assuming I already know how do do certain things. I can't find any templates anywhere for a Singlecut PRS, the closest I found was a PRS Hollowbody but thats not what I want. The question I need answering most right now is where to position the bridge pickup on a 25.00" scale neck?

I'm in the process of designing and building my first guitar. It's going to be basically a PRS Singlecut only a through-neck (and some other minor alterations to the PRS design). I'm still in the design phase but I need some help. Some stuff I have a good idea on but I still need advice so here are my questions: 1. I'm using a hardtail Strat type bridge so that I can avoid a neck angle (I don't like the angles and I don't like the other bridges, T-O-M etc). With this type of bridge do the strings have to go through the body? If so, do I need ferrules and how do they fix in place and where? The bridge would probably be either one of 'Chrome Hard Tail Bridge Strat - £21' or the one 2 below that 'USA Tele® or Strat® sized 2 3/32 string spacing - £20' About one third down this page: http://www.axesrus.com/axehardware.htm 2. How do I now exactly where to place the hardtail bridge? (I'm thinking about the saddles not being straight here) It will be a 25.00” scale guitar. So which part of the bridge I use should align with the bridge line I mark according to the scale of the guitar? 3. Is there an exact position I should have my bridge humbucker in? If so, how do I figure this out without a template? I've put the neck humbucker dead against the end of the neck (including the pickup rings) just like the PRS. 4. How do I decide on the width of the fretboard (i.e. the width at the nut and at the body end) or does it not matter? 5. How much does the positioning of the tuners on the headstock matter? 6. How do I determine the angle of the headstock or is it not important? 7. Does the neck back shape matter or is it up to me what shape I make it? 8. What electronics do I need to buy for a 2 humbucker setup with 2 volume controls (one for each obviously) and 1 overall tone control? 9. How do I determine where to stop routing the cavity for the truss rod at the body end? Thanks for any help I know theres a lot of questions