Dingus420

I live in white rock, BC but if theres anyone from around surrey/richmond i would be willing to bring it to you, that would be awesome

i would like to take it in and have a tech look at it but im actually flat broke right now, any income i get goes straight to snowboarding as its a seasonal thing...

my bros got a gibson and an epiphone les paul so i can still play when hes not around and my dads spending up to a grand on my grad gift and i think ill use it for a used american strat pretty soon

how would i go about measuring the relief without any special tools? i think that would sort out if it is actually twisted or not

so your saying the only way to fix it is to take off all the frets and sand the fingerboard to counter the twist? i dont really have much money to blow right now and im just trying to fix it up so i can try and sell it, im getting an american strat soon but right now this is my only working guitar

is there anything else that i could do? like heat it up and try and twist it back or just clamp it to a table in the right position?

what if i shimmed the nut on the bass side only, i think that would work for a quick temporary fix...

ok so this is what ive done..

i adjusted the springs first to make the bridge as level as possible to the body

loosened the truss rod, pretty much tested it with every single position possible

set the intonation on the low E string (it was a bit sharp)

raised the action even higher than it was before

i even shimmed the nut a little bit

and what would you know, IT STILL BUZZES!!

so i take the strings off take off the neck and look down it, and oh ****, where did that big twist come from, well its not that big but big enough to make a difference

when looking down the fretboard from the bridge side, the headstock is twisted about 1/8" counter clockwise so the bass side of the nut is low

is there any way that i can fix this? or should i go down to L&M and get pissed off at them for selling me a crappy guitar cuz i dont think that will achieve anything

well this was my first guitar i got new about 3 years ago, and if i would have known more about guitars back then i wouldnt have bought it, ive been fiddling with it since trying to get it set up nicely, it wasnt bad about 4 months ago but ive been playing it pretty hard lately and would like to know how to set it up myself, ive already taught myself every other aspect of the floyd rose and this is pretty much the last thing i hafta learn, ill post again after ive tried again to set it up

alright well now that u mention it, the neck seems to be sloped back a tiny bit and most of the buzzing i think is coming from the first three frets, its hard to tell exactly.

so your saying if i tighten up the truss rod some more itll fix my problem?

k so i got my jackson with its floyd rose copy and ive got some really bad fret buzz on the low E, B and high E strings, from open to about the 7th fret, the action is really high to and i want to fix it now.

the neck is nice and straight so the only thing i can think of is changing the scale length of each string from the bridge to try and make them tighter so my question is...

to do this should i make the strings longer so the string will be tighter at the same note as it would be if the string was a bit shorter? or is it the other way around?

k so i got this pre wired pickguard, SSS, off of guitar fetish, but im not sure if it has been properly grounded, looks to me like the 5 way has gotta be grounded to the volume pot as well, but im not really sure

alright well i found that i could do some research on my own for a change instead of being lazy and asking other ppl

dawn of a new era for me.. who knows what i could do next...

alright now im confused, when i took the old pickups out there were 4 wires, the red and white were tied together and taped back which would be north/south finish, the black was grounded which would be south start, and then there was a green one (north start) which was the hot one attatched to the 3 way..

the new pickup only has 3 wires, if i were to tape back the red and white ones and use the black as ground, what do i use as the hot wire/north start?

cmon i need some response, the soldering irons already hot...

EDIT: Hey wait, this is in two sections....

yea sorry about that, i posted it in the electronics section first but then i realized it would be alot faster to post it here instead

im using a golden age humbucker i got off of lmii a while ago,

i dont intend to leave it the way it is, im gonna put the original ones back in when i want to sell it, i just figured i should see how this pup sounds since i wont be completeing my home made guitar anytime soon and since my guitar sounds like farting into a dijeree-doo.

Figured i should get warmed up to this whole wiring thing anyways.

On my pickup i see 1 black wire with 1 white and 1 red wire spliced out if it.. is the black wire the N and S finish already taped? if so how do i know which is N and which is S of the white and red?

hey im finally fed up with the sound that my jackson js-30 is capable of, so ive decided to take out the 2 stock pups and put a single humbucker that i bought for my current build in the bridge position.

Can anyone hook me up with a wiring diagram i need to make this work with 1 vol and 1 tone pot... i guess i leave the 3 way switch out of the wiring?

this is the first time ive done any guitar wiring so any help is appreciated

hey im finally fed up with the sound that my jackson js-30 is capable of, so ive decided to take out the 2 stock pups and put a single humbucker that i bought for my current build in the bridge position, can anyone hook me up with some a wiring diagram i need to make this work with 1 vol and 1 tone knob... i guess i leave the 3 way switch out of the wiring? this is the first time ive done any guitar wiring so any help is appreciated

yea no kidding eh, i just wait till theres a bunch of things dont have the tools for to limit my school visits, i hate goin there unless those grade 8s wanna buy some bunk weed

i got some strips of ebony leftover, those should fill the gap just fine

alrite well i was at my old highschool disrupting grade 8s to use the shop, so i was kinda rushing and i accidently routed the truss rod channal too deep by 3/32" not a good start on my new neck...

i figured if i left it the truss rod wouldnt work, so can i just take a strip of any wood and glue it to the bottom? or should i use something else..

well thanks for the help guys, but i got one more question,

does anybody know how many of these strat like charvels were made before they were discontinued? or in one year, any info is helpful

I don't know why you felt the need to swear in response to someone and it took me all of five minute or so to find this, but this should help ya....... http://www.rickresource.com/forum/viewtopi...44&t=380078 look at the first pick, that looks like what you showed us...

sry i wasnt swearing at the person, i was swearing at the american government, i live in canada but if i lived in the states i would probably move away...

theyre watching me right now arent they

well maybe one of you can help me, heres the headstock and the pups, anyone seen these before?

yaa... umm no that doesnt work

i dont need no american government bullshit anyways i just wanna find out where and when this guitar was built, ive done 2 hours of surfin the web and i havnt even found a guitar that looks this one or any other similar serial numbers of other jackson/charvels.

im begining to think either this is a rare/custom guitar or some home made knock-off

hey can someone post a link to a site where u can track the serial number of any guitar?

plz dont lock the thread until i get the site

yep turns out it was a complete piece of ****, the sides were splitting at the bottom, the rossette was chipped, the fretboard and the body was full of chips and the bridge was completely ****ed and needed replacing

i talked him down to 15 bucks, but i still decided not to buy it, i offered him 5 bucks to smash it right there on the spot but he refused

alrite well i was pretty drunk when i was looking at it so i gotta take a second look at it but i dont think im gonna buy it,

BUT if i do decide to buy it, whats the process of re-attaching the sound board? is it as easy as some glue and some tieing it down to a board with some string?

i dont think the bridge is out of alignment, it just looked that way cuz of how the soundboard is sitting, so if i do decide to buy it, ill post some pics on this thread in the near future

epoxy it is then, the one on the right is a bit wierd but the left one is nice and snug

when it was made in the first place tho they did a shady job of doin it if u look at the gap here its diferent on both sides

ok well this definatley isnt where the guitar came from

http://www.guitarsla.com/

but check it out anyways, theres some damn expensive, over the top guitars here.