danworth

its not looking good, it was still buzzing so i stuck a 15kg weight on the neck and left it over a couple of nights.

its still buzzing beleive it or not, i cant bend the neck even with extra weight.

ive loosened the nut completely and over tightened the strings E to F and so on i'll see how it goes tonight.

it has quite alot of back bow, the stings buzz up to the 7th fret. and there is no gap across the whole neck.

adjusting the the truss rod completely tight and almost loose enough to see the truss rod poking out, has no effect on the back bow.

i've cut the neck to fit a nut, i doubt i can get it replaced now. but still i'll contact AxesRus for advice...

thanks.

thanks for the link.

but adjusting the truss rod makes no difference, the neck is bending the wrong way...

hello all, i fitted my neck that i purchased from Axes R Us, now attached i noticed that the neck is bent, i put strings on it and left it for a few days but still its bent quite badly.

is there a way i can fix it? ie putting weight on the neck over night?

help would be much appreciated.

so, this was a bad question.

anybody tried the necks in axes r us, the strat ones for 60 euros aprox. they are not mighty mite, wich i had thought, how are they, will the need a lot of fret job done???

i have one, i fitted it last night. the frets are a bit chunky, but I'm going to leave them how they are. The only issue i might have (having not built a guitar before i don't know if its right) the neck appears to have a bend in it any thing lower then the 6th fret catches. from my under standing if you put a rule across the neck there should be a slight gap. i just strung the guitar and leaving it to see if the neck takes its proper shape.

i must say though, Axes R Us are very quick on delivery ive ordered £100 of stuff from him in the past week, and i will continue to use him.

Well you don't say where you are located or what kind of trem you are looking for, but ALLPARTS http://www.allparts.com/cmtpage.php?filename=Home have floyd rose trems for leftys in black, they may have others, I didn;t look. WD also have a few different trems in LH http://www.wdmusic.com/

George

sorry im in the UK. its for a strat replica.

thanks.

Does any one know where i can get a left handed Tremolo in black. ive tried Axesrus but he only has chrome.

I don't really want to spend a massive amount on the tremolo.

ive asked sellers on ebay if they can get them for left handed also but they cant, any one know any suppliers?

Not many parts easily available for left handed players...

When you wired it the second time, you probably wired it in parallel. That's why the output was so low.

If you have real Duncans in there, it's supposed to be green and bare together and grounded, red and white together, and black hot to switch. With the way you have it, it'll work fine but the phase is just reversed. The slug coil is now the hot coil and the screw coil is the dummy.

They recommend using 500k pots for humbuckers and 250k for single-coils, too.

I currently do have it wired like that

Green to Bare and grounded, red and white soldered, and black to the 3 way switch.

i had the meter set to 20k. i did think that i had the meter set wrong as it read 16k resistance even when i changed the volume, but although the volume being very low it would effect the output, so the resistance must change. Even the guy i bought it from couldn't understand why it was so quiet as it was from a working guitar.

As you can tell its the first time me attempting wiring a guitar.

But as said above, it works so i'll leave it.

yep replaced it with the old one from the other pick guard assembly which read 3-6k on the meter and it worked fine.

ok i checked the pickup one is 16k and the other 8k, so they are ok. but while i was there i checked the volume which was again 16k resistance no matter the setting, just replaced it from my old pick guard and it all working now, and is very loud. and destorts great. it sound even better then my fender. i think im gunna have to replace the pickups in my telecaster now.

thanks people for your help, its made my weekend!

He had the wiring diagrams that were

Red soldered to White

Black to bare

and green to 3 way.

I checked the net and found another diagram which is pretty much the same but green to bare and black to 3 way, i tried both and both give same result. i also found another way of wiring.

black soldered to white

green to bare

red to 3 way

this resulted in even lower output so im pretty sure they wired correctly using the first way.

I didn't think of using a multi meter to check, i'll check now.

I also have the pickups about 2mm away which is as close as i can get them.

many thanks.

hi i purchased this from ebay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1

the guy is very helpful he spent this morning on MSN trying to figure out.

it doesn't seem to be as loud as my telecaster is and doesn't distort as much, does any one know what could be causing this.

hi all im looking for a strat neck for a guitar im building/"upgrading" i finished painting the body, bought a strat pick guard assembly off of ebay, now all i need is a fairly good neck as the one that was on the guitar isn't great. any one know where i can purchase a neck in the UK?

its for a left handed guitar by the way.

thanks.