SpeckledJim

right, cheers

im looking for a relativley cheap meter to measure continuity and the like for my guitar. I live in britain. Can anyone suggest a model or place where i can find these beasts

yeah thats what i mean, the claw. i will continue trying to stick that bugger down to the claw but what im saying is cant i just stick it anywhere, on anything made of metal? or would that be very wrong?

my solderin iron just isnt hot enough to heat the plate on the back of my strat and on top of that its a really awkward place to solder. Do you know of any other place i can stick that wire?

thanks for the tips people. I think i have some shopping to do. my solder is quite thick and maybe i'll get one of them little sponge thingys instead of balancing it on the carpet.

haha this thing is a low wattage iron. It's an inexpensive 15 watt. I didnt tin it from the very first use because i didnt know about that. it does take quite a while to heat up and actually melt the solder though.

So as you may well know i have been trying to learn the ways of guitar electronics. Yesterday i spent some time rewiring the neck pickups of the epiphone the to the volume knob. After plugging the guitar into the amplifier i was reassured of my work with some lovely buzz free tones. So i put the epiphone aside and whipped out the tele for a whirl. Then i awake this morning and to my utter disgust i find that my epiphone is refusing to work. To this moment still i put it down to shoddy workmanship on my behalf.

Everywhere i look for help all i see is "making a good soldering joint is a skill that is easily mastered". and every time i read it it enrages me further.

Yesterday i spent hours trying to master this soldering buisness and all i have to show for it is a broken down guitar, melted wires, a few sinister marks on the carpet and some thrid degree burns! What am i doing wrong?

Okay so i dont have any desoldering bulbs so i cant take any of the old tin off and its gotten a bit of a mess in the control cavity there. But my main problem is burning stuff. Desoldering in the tight pickups selector cavity seems to always lead to the burning and fraying of wires.

Can any of you give me any tips. They would be much appreciated.

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you see thats the way it was wired before. I couldnt get all three postions so i got a wiring diagram from guitarelectronics.com and this is the way they said to do it. Have you got a diagram that will let me have 3 postions with the cap grounded to the tone knob?

right so ive got a bit of wire that was previously wired in the guitar but is no longer needed. Will i just solder it on the end there? It's quite thick, its got shielding on it.

I am currently rewiring my epi LP and ive noticed that the caps are too short. I can't stretch them over from the volume pots to the tone pots. Any idea how i can overcome this without buying new caps?