SteveG673

thanks so much for the advice. that definetly cleared a lot up for me. however i just read another post on the forum that said if your control cavity is shielded you need to solder a ground wire to this too. does this mean i need to have my ground branch off to both the saddle and the copper foil?

Its just a wooden acoustic bridge with an aluminum saddle, and the strings go through the body:

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone could help me out with my first custom guitar's wiring. In this schematic im using, there is a ground wire going from the bridge to the volume pot and im not sure what it does. my big problem is that my custom guitar is an electric lap steel with a wooden acoustic bridge. my best guess is that ground wire is there so if the strings happen to touch the pickup, the circuit won't short? this would not be a problem for me because it is just a slide guitar and the strings never get depressed that far. Or am I totally off? Thanks for any help!

Hi, I was thinking about starting a strat project with a HSH setup. I guess I'm unsure how I should wire the switch, particularly regarding the in between positions. Would a single coil mixed with a humbucker sound weird? I should specify that the single coil is actually a fender vintage noiseless, so it isnt really a true single coil... thanks in advance!

hi, I was just wondering if anybody has any experience with the lsr roller nut? first and foremost, how is sound affected if at all? I know it is designed to help eliminate friction during vibrato bends, but I dont really use the effect too much. Does it help the guitar stay in tune regardless? Thanks for any help!

I have been trying to find a way to get a great crunchy distortion out of my guitar when the volume is low. I think I found the answer when I was browsing the band equipment section on the weezer website. Talking about River's strat, it reads: "Additionally, there was a special capacitor added to the wiring that kept the tone thick and crunchy, even when the volume was turned down low (hence the nice "quiet-yet-crunchy" live concert tone on the quiet parts of "say it aint so", etc...) This may have been a "Black Ice" module, which replaces the capacitor on the tone knob and is a passive overdrive/distortion circuit, controllable by the tone knob once you put it in place of the tone capacitor. However, as only the volume knob was left functioning, I believe it was instead hooked into the volume knob, thus increasing its activity as the volume was turned up (or down?)" I am wondering if anybody has experience with the Black Ice unit on the volume pot? How can I wire it so when the volume is turned down, overdrive goes up? Will the volume pot still control volume, or does it just turn into an overdrive control? The stewmac page only has info about connecting it to a tone pot. Does this mean I can keep the capacitors on the tone pots to keep the treble bleed? Sorry for all the questions, I am not the best at electronics, but I really want this effect! Thanks for any help!

Can you explain what you mean by hard wearing? ever tried a pair of brass pants?? No, are these the new style or something? lol

Can you explain what you mean by hard wearing?

I was actually going to ask this guy to make me a custom saddle and I saw near the bottom of the page all the different materials he can make it out of. I was also thinking about using brass. I am guessing that since metals are denser than bone, they might offer a little brighter tone with more sustain?

Just a quick question. I am wondering what the tonal differences are between aluminum and bone saddles? Thanks!

Hi, might as well make my first post on the forum a dumb one. I'm going back and forth between the Tone Pros TOM and the intonatable wraparound bridge for my project. Is there any difference in tone or sustain or is it purely athestetic? Thanks for any help!