patman

Wow

That is truly shocking. I just learned about this because this is the first time I have been here in a while.

Lovekraft always seemed like such a kind and helpful person.

RIP

The link isn't working.

I own an AD60VTX, another type of valvetronix, and it's great. If something happened to it, I would replace it in a heartbeat.

broiden- sorry I didn't reply with a diagram or advice. I was out of town and had no access to a computer.

As mentioned earlier, you would need a super-switch to wire it the way you stated.

No

In all pedals, all grounds are wired to the negative part of the power supply.

Welcome to the forum!

Your switch is a fender-type five way.

I will draw a diagram for you if you want. What pickup combinations do you want with your switch?

Looks awesome, dude. I like the soundhole pattern, very cool.

P.S.- how heavy is it? looks like it would weigh a ton.

EDIT: duh, of course it would be lighter. not sure what I was thinking

Go to radio shack and buy one for 15 bucks. I don't know if they are the best, but they are cheap and they do their job.

Guitar is kind of hard to see in picture but looks awesome

looks like a richenbacker....FROM HELL!!!! (or gotham city in this case)

^ rickenbacker? ^

Try plugging right into the amp. This has happened to me with my tube amp and it turns out that it was just a dying battery in a pedal. Even though your effects are off, they will still not work if the battery is dead (in some cases).

This is just a thought but maybe one of the cables you're using is dead

That tele is one of the coolest ive ever seen

I was talking about the wires from the bridge and neck volumes to the switch. I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear.

But I'm glad you said what you did. It won't make any difference sonically in this project because none of the pickups will be on at the same time, but for future reference, to make a humbucker series and in phase (the normal way- without any mods) you solder the two finishes (red and white) together and not the starts (green and black). If you look at the link above you will notice that you are soldering the two starts together. This will make the pickups out-of-phase with other pickups. But as I said above, since none of the pickups are combined, it will sound the same either way. Hope that made sense

The only problem is that the wires coming from the bridge and neck are backwards. I know logically the way you have it makes sense, but they need to be reversed. Other than that everything looks fine.

Welcome to the forum!

Here is how you should hook up the switch

diagram

High output humbuckers give a more distorted sound. It doesn't matter what brand.

IMO, jaguars are pretty ergonomic

I would have connected the output of the switches to the left hand terminal of the volume pot and not the center terminal. I would have taken the output to the jack from the center terminal of the volume control and not the left hand terminal of the tone pot.

+1. It's better practice, so unless the more exotic wiring yields some special sound, doing it the standard way is simpler, and easier to debug in the event of a malfunction.

I didn't know there was a standard way of wiring volume and tone pots. Thanks for showing that to me. The way I put it on the diagram just made sense in my head at the time .

jimhndrx3- I'm glad everything is working out

right now i just strung it up and the sound cuts in and out.. is this because i did not solder correctly and its shorting against itself, because its not properly grounded, something to do with the stereo output jack or what? i cant figure it out this is the third time ive tried it.

i have a 250 k and 500 k pots...... the 500 k is for the humbucker. which should i make tone and which should i make volume... currently i have the 500 k as volume and 250 k as tone could htis be affecting the signal?

Double check all the solder points and make sure everything is connected in the proper way. Make sure the contact points on the jack are right up against the guitar cable and that things that aren't supposed to touch aren't touching.

You are using the pots the way I would. And no, that should not affect the signal (but it will slightly affect the tone. Read here.)

Does it only cut in and out on certain pickup combinations?

btw, if anyone sees anything wrong with the diagram, PLEASE say so.

Could you check the volume and tone wiring? I've never seen this particular way of doing it.

That should work perfectly fine. If there is another way you want to wire the volume and tone, go ahead, but it should be okay.

No problem.

I look forward to seeing your build .

Here is your wiring diagram

The switches are SPST, which can be bought everywhere.

You should probably use 250k pots.

is there any special way i should wire this so it becomes a mono output jack?

You can use it as a mono jack without any special wiring. Just wire all the grounds to the back of the volume pot and then solder the volume pot to the sleeve lug on the jack. Ignore the ring lug.

btw, don't forget to ground the bridge.

EDIT: The pickup switches are on/on

pushpull pots are much better imo

I agree.

You might want to think about a push-pull instead. But do whatever you want, Its your guitar.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

It is certainly not an inconvenience .

Here is your diagram.

I used the Seymour Duncan four conductor pickup wire code. If your pickups aren't SD's, you can substitute the wire colors using the chart here.

If anyone sees any mistakes, PLEASE point them out.

I hope this works out for you .

Wiring one pickup out of phase with the other is pretty much the same whether you switch the bridge or the neck. It'll cancel the same frquencies regardless, so unless you're hung up on "absolute phase" (and that's a silly argument for another time and place), it's pointless to switch more than one.

+1

The sound is not affected by which pickup is out of phase, only that a pickup is out of phase with another pickup. It wouldn't matter whether it was the bridge or neck pup that was out of phase. Also, If you are using just one pup, it will sound no differently in or out of phase (unless its out of phase with its self).

I would certainly draw a diagram for you, but I wouldn't know what the combinations you would want with your five way switch . (also, the way you wanted the phase switching to be done with the on-off-on switch isn't possible.)