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  1. IPA or death
    Does anyone know where I can get a wiring diagram for this configuration? It's your typical Les Paul setup but I have push/pull pots in the volume spots. I would like to have the ability to go out of phase and split my bridge humbucker. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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    I suggest you call it the "earwig".
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    The finish was definitely worth the wait Dayvo. Beautiful guitar man, congrats.
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    i love Myka's work so please dont anyone take this the wrong way... but what makes someone a 'master builder'? i dont think david refers to himself that way and always wonder about the people who do. personally i sometimes struggle when people refer to me as a luthier... sounds so bloody poncy!! No, he really is a master. He's got the member's card and everything. Honestly, it was just a word used to describe his building. Could have easily used "excellent" but that's how the human mind works sometimes; it pushes other adjectives to the front.
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    To opine on your original statement, I would leave the headstock as is and do away with the switch washer. And to further add to what everyone else is saying, I think the guitar would have to be stained fairly dark for the gold hardware to not seem out of place. the blue doesn't work for me either. Maybe you could save that for a guitar that is painted blue as well. And if it were mine, the back control cover would be stained similar to the mahogany or use black plastic as Drak suggested. All merely my opinion, but when you ask for a toothpick on PG forums, you tend to get a tree limb don't you?
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    Take the bare wire off the phase switch!!!! By reversing the phase, you are also reversing the ground I suspect when you switch things so that the cover alternates between hot and ground. You only want to reverse the ground of the coils in the pickup, not the cover. pete The bare wire is now off the switch but that's what Seymour Duncan's site has, so I don't know about it. Seymour Duncan
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    Or I could take out the additional wire which completely grounded the pup and just have it actually work right Thanks for the advice and explanations guys.
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    Wow. Quite a work of art. I've never seen one of these Kramers before. Any info on the original?
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    Cool guitar. I built one just like it several years ago. For some reason I put a slight neck angle on it. I like the idea of the preamp, I may do that myself. Good luck on the rest of the modding.
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    Oh, I see. You want details . I don't know what I was thinking not telling you guys that it was a 4 conductor with bare wire. I guess I was too focused on the symptoms to think about the details. Well, the bare wire is soldered to the phase switch and then it runs to the back of a pot. So I guess the problem is that: the ground is fine when the circuit is completed by the switch and screwed when the switch is engaged. So I'll run the bare wire to the back of the pot first then link it to the switch. Would that likely do it? Thanks so much for the help.
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    Thanks guys, I'll try to add a wire and see what happens. But I thought that the bare stranded wire on a 4 conductor pup was meant to do just that.
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    I put a humbucker in neck position of my telecaster and added a dpdt switch to go in and out of phase. When the switch is flipped and the pups are out of phase, I can touch a string to the metal HB cover and the sound goes dead. No output at all. In addition, you can scratch your fingers over the pickguard and get a noisy, static-y, scratchy sound which just doesn't work for me at all (to say the least). Switch it back and no scratchy sound. I'm puzzled. What I wonder is whether the metal cover has anything to do with this and what can be done. All the wiring is correct so that isn't an issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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    I vote for rosewood neck. One of my favorite builds from this site is this LP style with a rosewood neck. Rosewood neck LP
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    Reminds me of the Sadowsky headstocks for his Strat and Tele style guitars. Yours is like the CBS big headstock Sadowsky, not that there's anything wrong with that. I do like your headstock in other words. Sadowsky New York guitars
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    I found the pictures below on a bass forum and they look appealing to me. I think I'll give this a try on the compound miter saw. Looks like a safe and relatively easy way to do a scarf cut. Of course there are many, many ways to do a scarf cut, it's just what fits your situation with tools, etc.
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    Wow, great how-to Spoke! Thanks for sharing your ideas. I actually bought one of the Vise Grip types of this clamp over a year ago, thinking I could make a fret press out of it. And technically I could have, as it turns out . Now my lazy butt has it all laid out for me so there's no more excuses. I also have a fret bender to make now. Heck, if I keep accumulating all of these tools, sooner or later a guitar may result!
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    Myka is a member here and a master builder. I didn't read back through this thread but I'm sure I'm not the first to list something he does. Not so much radical as it is simply beautiful, here is my favorite body shape: DiSanto Claro-Limba
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    I bought one of those for a guitar I'm working on. I'm anxious to hear your take on the tone of that pup when you get yours together (since it's taking me so damned long to get mine together ). Really nice work on your guitar btw, it's a real beauty.
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    That might look good. Might also try red strat knobs or these: if you could get that red crown on those it would be sweet. I would personally put Gibson speed knobs on it if it were mine. Would be really cool if they made black ones with red numbering. But you might like these as well: Found them all on Ebay.
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    I used to have a strat with a SD Hot Rail and it was pretty nice. I like all the SD pickups I've ever played. You might also look into Bill & Becky Lawrence's Wylde pickups. All of them have rails rather than single pole pieces and are fairly priced. One caution: being a mom and pops establishment, ordering is as smooth as a corncob.
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    I bought some of the Stewmac ebony binding and tried to glue it using CA. It wasn't drying like I thought it should but I'll check it again in the morning. Maybe ebony needs more prep work before gluing than other woods. If anyone has any ebony gluing tricks or tips, I'm all ears. But the look is perfect and this screw up might end up being a blessing in disguise since I'm liking the fact that the fret ends will be hidden. A nice clean look that I think works really well. I'll let you guys know how it turns out as soon as I get it done.
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    I can't believe I've never noticed that Stewmac carried that. Thanks Neil. And thanks for the other advice from everyone else too. I think I can fix this problem, but I would still like to see black plastic binding on ebony to satisfy my curiosity if nothing else.
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    Well, because I don't want white binding. The original design was for an ebony fretboard with no binding so my only choice now--unless there are such things as ebony binding strips available anywhere--is to use black plastic. Black binding on ebony fretboard would also make any gaps between the two easier to hid I'm guessing (black epoxy). I didn't think it would be common, I just wondered what it looked like if it has been done by anyone for one reason or another. In searching the web I found a dean guitar that was supposed to have this configuration but the pick wasn't close up enough to make a judgment.
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    Jon, I don't understand what you mean by "something that is already there". The problem is something is actually not there (width) and I need to build it up rather than scrap a piece of nice ebony. I just wanted to see pics to see how well the ebony and black plastic blend together. Ideally I would want it as seamless as possible so it won't look like I screwed up (even though I did).
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    Not that I cut my fretboard wrong and need to add binding to bring it up to size or anything, just curious.
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