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where abouts are you located. i have a soloist body that i have no need for if you are interested.

Hi Ashley - Im in Sydney, and also shop at Jaycar for switches.  You can get a two position DPDT minitoggle for around $3, and that will do two options, like

series in phase/series out of phase, or

Seies in phase/ coil cut or,

series in phase / paralel in phase

the 3 positions switches have a center all off position - not much use for coil switching options.

THe US web sites have diagrams for series/parallel/single, but it needs a special on/on/on switch which I have not found here in Aus.  Id be interestsed if you find one.

Before you spend $27.50US on a Black Ice, buy a Schottky diode (1amp 40 volt) from Jaycar - for 45cents Aus.  Put it where a tone cap would go and try it out.  You could switch the cap/diode with a single pole toggle.

John

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thanks for that. i went out this afternoon looking for an on/on/on switch, i tried jaycar, dick smiths, a guitar repairer near my place and two guitar shops to no avail. im working on a wiring diagram at the moment for the whole set up, so ill post a pic when its done and see what you all think

cheers, ashley

3.  Are you talking about haveing you two humbuckers out of phase with each other when there both on?  Or the coils on one humbucker out of phase?

If you have one humbucker and want more sounds out of it check out my thread here.

PS when we seeing some pics ash?

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one humbucker out of phase, thats all my guitar has. after i posted this topic, i found some wiring diagrams of what you said in your thread, using a double pole, three way mini toggle switch. im gonna stop off at jaycar (a place like radioshack) on the way home and pick one up. and by thisafternoon with the pics, itll be about 1am your time com im in aus, so youll be able to see them then

cheers ashley

Welcome.

Don't forget to read the rules about pic posting as well.

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no worries mate, already done. i wont do anymore stuff wrong i hope

Ok, well ive decided to fix up my guitar, but theres a few questions i wanted to ask

1. POTS

My volume pot is a bit dodgy, it doesnt react very well. am i able to replace it with any 500k pot?

2. BLACK ICE

Now i know there are already a heap of thread on the site regarding black ice, but none of them cover what i want to do. I am wanting to have a switch that switches the overdrive on and off. when the overdrive is off, i was wanting the tone pot to be a regular tone pot, and when the switch is on, the tone pot becomes the gain controll. is this possible to do??

3. PHASING SWITCH

The other thing i was wanting to do is to put in a small switch to switch my humbucker in and out of phase, but i have no idea how to do it.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated guys.

cheers, ashley

I may be wrong, but I thought signature images werent allowed?

Either way, welcome to the forum dude, I am from Brisbane too

- Dan

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yeah, that was my bad, didnt read the rules the pictures will be up thisafternoon

dont worry mate, ill definately be posting some pics, i just have to take some decent ones

yeah man, what chunkie said, fantastic idea, post up some pics if you eventually do it!

Well I wouldn't know that if someone hadn't done it(der). Do a google image search for a gibson voodoo guitar. They were painted black, then grainfilled with a red tinted grainfiller, then laquered with semigloss laquer. It's been done to death actually, hehe.

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cheers, i was always wondering how they did that

PLAN PLAN PLAN, and make very accurate templates. i had trouble routing my neck pocket to the right size, mainly because i wasnt using a good template. Thats one thing im definately going to do better next time

definately a gretsch, strats are a classic, but have been overdone

i would definitely go for mesa, if i could afford it

i have the same problem with my guitar, it can be really annoying, but i normally play rhythm, so it doesnt matter too much

yeah, a floyd would be your best bet, but like maiden69 said, if u want hardtail youll either have to go for a solid colour or a new cap

i was wondering the same thing with integrating a distortion/overdrive effect into my guitar.

it took me a while, but i finally found a decent guitar forum. im 18 and from brisbane and have built my own guitar which i will be posting some pics of later.

cheers, ashley