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So the ground wire is not actually soldered? Its just squished between the bridge or bridge posts and the body?

yeah on a telecaster guitar its just bare wire thats been squashed in between the bridge and body.

on a strat it goes to the claw, on a hardtail its the same as a tele, on a les paul its to the bridge posts i think.

id pay £5 / $8 max

id swap em for metal strings, daddario's might work better.

if they have a plastic coating on them maybe you could scratch it off under the bridge where they touch the saddles or somthing...

what strings are they exactly ive never heard of plastic coated ones and it seems a bit weird that they are non conductive unless they are nylon...

one thing that might be wrong is the jack socket could be wired backwards, that can make some weird grounding style issues.

Cool. I like the way you did the transistor switching. Does it pop when you switch it?

a little bit, im not sure how to cure it either, its about as bad as the pop when the unit goes on and off, minimal.

i stole the idea off a picture i saw somwhere :S

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saw this and it gave me the idea to try it

http://www.chambonino.com/construct/const12k.jpg

from this page

http://www.chambonino.com/construct/const12.html

triple transistor switching is mentioned there, i dunno how that would be possible without more switches (could have 2 switches with 2 transistors attached and then a switch to select between them).

i would like to add a mid boost switch to mine, ive already ordered a few more bits to make another one and use my other transistors up, i think even the nasty sounding ones would sound better if i biased them properly with a trimmer.

yeah a lot of mine were duds, either they sound horrible or just have no effect, i actually had 3-4 pairs of ac128's that were "matched" that i got off banzai effects a while back (to make fuzzfaces) and only one of the transistors sounded nice out of that lot, the ones i got off ebay seemed to be nicer....

been finishing old projects recently which have been doing my head in for a while, found a treble booster board that i had bought about 6 years ago and never got round to building.

this is a box ive had for ages and use it for prototyping now. > http://imgur.com/mlgH7.jpg

the innerds > http://imgur.com/MjCU3.jpg

finished box (waiting for 2 parts, rubber feet and a battery holder) >

http://imgur.com/mL0vs.jpg

http://imgur.com/XySyh.jpg

http://imgur.com/vD7zB.jpg

the switch ontop switches between 2 different transistors an ac128 and a cv7003 (military name of the oc44) i used enamel wire to connect the switch to the transistor socket, the socket made it easy to test all the transistors i had in for the best ones.

im after another copy, i loaned my original out and could do with another.

is the second edition the newest version ?

it definately looks like a dimarzio pickup to me, ive got a similar pickup but its not got the red wire, it could be an OEM one.

ive heard of this before but never seen it with my own eyes, id love to see a video of a guitar picking up AM radio just for giggles

they are low impedance because they have a built in buffer.

i have a KFK set (85/81 pa-2) personaly i dont find them sterile. i love they way they react to the tone and volume knob you can roll the highs off with the tone knob and not loose the edge that happens with passive pickups (i hate using the tone knobs on my other guitars) and i know they have the reputation for just doing metal but i find they clean up and do reall nice blues tones too.

i hate the tone knob on a lot of my guitars as well, only pickup i use it on is a super distortion 2 as the tone knob adds more grit :S

a pickup is nothing more that a generator. that generated signal is then fed in to a amplifier the amplifer does just that it amplifies the signal. then sends it out to the speaker.

with active pickups, the pickup does the same then it goes to a peramp to raise the signal to the desired rate. btw frome what i understand about emg is that they wind there pickups with tone and sound being there first priority and use the electronics to bring the signal up to the desired level. when winding normal pickups you have to balance the tone and sound with desired output thats what makes winding picups such a artform.

not arguing with you but what i heard about EMG is that they keep the pickups sterile sounding so they get more accurate sound from the strings, then effects and all that jazz add the tone...

cant remember where i read that but whats your take on it ? ive never used EMG's but ive always fancied trying some

You won't go to jail for it or face a fine, but you may spontaneously combust for angering the guitar gods.

Oh No! My worst fear!

So how does that insulteth ye holy guitare Gods? Does it screw with the tone or something or destroy the finish over time?

"THOU SHALT NOT USE CAR PRODUCTS ON THE GREATEST INSTRUMENT OF ALL TIME! YE SHALL BE PUNISHED!"

*Combusts into flames.

But lets be serious now, why is this illegal? Or is merely the sale of guitars with Bondo illegal?

its not illegal afaik, just a joke

early guitars used car paint so its not that bad imo.

i dont beleive you should ever change your style for an instrument; at least your bread and butter instrument; if anything i would shop for an insrument that suited my style perfectly; thats like sayin to go to a gym so you can play a 50lb bass

well it depends, ive got a lot of guitars, and i dont wanna ruin (or alter) this guitar (its an old strat) because its got tall saddle screws, i just avoid them : )

if the OP's guitar isnt important or original then its not much fuss to cut the screws down a bit.

i use wd40 to clean pots, sprayed in the little hole on the casing and then i turn the wiper from 100% to 0% a few times and spray a bit more and repeat till its all nice and slick.

ive had this issue on an old guitar i own, simple fix is not to touch the bridge when playing....

i know that sounds sarcastic but im serious, i just changed playing style for that guitar.

connect the signal wire to tip, ground to the outside.

like tim said, have a look at it, the tip is easy to spot (it touches the end of the plug when its plugged in).

yeah its spamish even if its a legitimate post, sortof goes against the advertising rules on the forums too (fair enough if it was a particular product being talked about but nothing specific was mentioned just generic brand pups)

i personally dont like duncans or gfs, both of them seem cheap and nasty, and the duncans arnt exactly cheap either : (

theres a lot of ebay stores selling oem pickups as well which i tend to avoid, a lot of the time they are nothing like the real thing (not saying fake but the quality seems worse).

im also still waiting for a reply from the guitarfetish store, i asked about the saddle spacing on his vintage strat bridges and got a nonsense reply back, its not that hard to answer so i never bothered with them again...

what is the back cover held on with ?

magnets ?

Carvin neck through blank

cheat! B)

Its for someone else.... I wanted a quality neck. I can handle the body/electronics but I've found my big weaknesses are finishing and neck building. So .... Good neck and an oil finish.. It IS cheating.....

and those are just lyrics up there ^^ from Smokey and the Bandit. It was on TV when I was typing and I found it fitting. lol ....." We got a lawng way ta go - and a short time to get there.... "

lol jerry reed, love that movie.

nothing new but i thought id post it, i was reading up on dave gilmours wiring and specifically his little switch on the black strat, that got me thinking of having all 3 single coils in series so i started hunting a schematic out (gilmours only links the bridge and neck i believe).

another reason i wanted to do this mod is because ive got the 69 custom shop pickups which dont have a RWRP middle pickup (no noise cancelling posistions)

this is the diagram i was working off with a dpdt micro switch http://i43.tinypic.com/14yampx.jpg

ive tried a few mods that use only 1 switch and none really work for me (Stawberry/Black ice) this actually gave me some usable sounds : )

Sorry again if this seems stupid, but aren't arcade buttons two conductor switches? The ones I've seen online seem to be. If so, how would one wire that up? If you just ran the hot lead through the switch before the output jack, wouldn't you have to press the switch to close the circuit and get signal?

depends on the type of arcade switch, if its normally open or closed, you can just wire the hot to ground to kill the sound.

like i said before ive not seen a latching arcade switch but im sure theres similar sized switches that could be used that look similar to arcade ones.

its just the screw holes are off yeah.

some of them match up some dont, depends what factory the guitars were made in.

ive got a jap squier which can take usa fender parts, but ive got a jap fender which doesnt take usa fender parts...

yeah they are momentary which means you will have to hold it in to keep it killed, good for the tremolo effect but no good for killing the sound completely....

ive never seen an arcade switch that toggled, it sortof defeats the point of putting an arcade switch in the guitar if you just want to kill the sound.

Paintball Guns!!! Haha! I think maybe paint balls (no gun) would work. I was wondering the same thing the other day.

i doubt the paint would last long and it would be crappy colours, some of the paintballs ive got here are basically water+food colouring so they arnt toxic