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does anyone have a response to my previous post? the mail comes with my switch today!

thank you very, the response to the second question was quite helpful, but for the 1st, maybe im just confused, or maybe its because i have little idea of how this grounding works, but the wire that runs to the input jack of the pedal is already connected to the common ground on the circuit board, so wouldn't wiring it to the ground in the guitar create a ground loop (or something)? pardon me for my confusion

here is a rudimentary drawing of my question, the problem highlighted in red

http://home.comcast.net/~latusrectum/circquestion.bmp

I'm currently in the process of installing a pedal inside my guitar, but i have a couple of questions about the grounding.

1) Since the guitar signal will be wired directly to the input (of the pedal), there will be nothing touching the ground connector on the input jack (of the pedal). The battery wire also connects to this ground, so i figure that its important that it wire somewhere, so where does it go?

2) I took the pedal out of its casing but plugged it into my effects chain. I experienced a terrrrible buzz until i reseated the circuit board so that it was touching the casing, and the buzz stoped and the normal signal resumed, so im guessing that the board needs to be grounded. Is it as simple as taking the common ground on the circuit board and wiring it to the ground inside the guitar (volume pot)?

Thats all for now, thank you very much, im quite inexperienced!

you can use screws or pickup rings both will work. The screws will replace the bolts and be screwed directly into the guitar body the more you turn them into the body the lower the pickup will be. Or you can go with single coild pickup rings.

Hope that helps

i dont want to buy pickup rings, but if i use screws would i also need to insert springs so that the height remains adjustable (the screws currently thread through the pickups)

Hi everyone, I am very confused as to how I am supposed to mount 2 single coil sized pickups into my guitar body. (The pickups are Dimarzio Chopper and Dimarzio Pro Track, and the body is new, and has 2 routed holes for pickups and has no pickguard). I just cant figure out how I mount these pickups to the wood while still being able to adjust the height of the pickup. Any help is appreciated

http://home.comcast.net/~latusrectum/schematic.bmp

i posted this in another thread but basically what im trying to do is replace the gibson selectors with the DPDT switch weve been talking about, so lovekraft, if you could make a quick diagram based on this pickup setup it would be greatly appreciated

so basically i could just wire one side of a DPDT center on and use it as though it were SPDT?

because that would be very awesome

yeah, but im not entirely sure how i would wire my pickups to a DPDT, thats why i was looking for a SPDT like the Gibson

I am looking for a SPDT center on switch, just like a classic Gibson 3 way selector swithch, the only problem is the holes in my guitar are only a 1/4 inch, and the Gibson switch requires 1/2, and i dont want to drill bigger holes. I cant find a 1/4 inch SPDT center on switch anywhere, does anyone know where i can find one or am i just going to have to drill bigger holes?

yeah the color coding will be a simple change, im glad that my switch setup is going to work though! thank you very much

hi everyone, im new to wiring/electronics and am building my own guitar. it is going to have 3 humcancelling pickups (one full sized, 2 strat sized). i want to use 2, 3 way switches for selecting the pickups, but im not sure if this is possible. can someone with experience check the schematic that i have tweaked and let me know if there is anything wrong with it?

http://home.comcast.net/~latusrectum/schematic.bmp

thanks a bunch

Hi all. I am new to the custom guitar and in particular the wiring of the electronics. I plan on setting up a humbucker humbucker humbucker body, according to http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/schem...g_schematic.pdf

I also read the posts here on the black ice overdrive, and plan to build one on my own, and not to open any old wounds, but I have a question about this. Based on the schematic above, is it possible to add another tone pot for use as a control over the black ice overdrive, while keeping the other tone pot independent for merely tone control, and if yes, could someone briefly explain how to connect this into the circuitry? Sorry if I missed something in the other topics, but im pretty sure this is different.

http://kyleandzaneguitars.bravehost.com/di...20schematic.bmp

http://members.aol.com/ku07090/strawberry_ice.html

Thanks,

Sean