Recent content by BrotherJack

Yep, rewired the whole thing, and whatdyaknow, fixed it up just fine.    :bananaguitar:  Maybe I can wire a guitar after all.    :icon_thumright:

Ahhhhh.... there it is.... I pulled the tone knob all the way out again (I had just the vol and switch sitting outside the cavity), and boom - there is indeed a wire coming from the bridge that connects there, and the wires where the ground/shield that goes from tone to vol must have been down...

More report.  So, looking each connection over carefully, I do see the other end of the ground/shield wire that comes from the volume pot to the switch (the one that came loose on the switch end) looks to be frayed and not holding on by that many strands anymore on the volume pot end.  I also...

What was the stray solder doing that caused it - providing a near-connection between hot and ground?  I suppose there may be something like that that's happened elsewhere with a blob of solder (I'll look it over  with a magnifying glass later on to see), but the output jack leads weren't touched...

EDIT:  I think this one is solved guys - nevermind  (though the strat I describe below still buzzes more than I like and I don't know why). Hi Guys. I have shielded and/or wired up, oh, 20 or 30 guitars at this point.  All of them came out more/less dead silent (or at least very quiet).  Some...

So, some time back, I ended up with an Ibanez RG120 for $30, which I repaired and later traded for a battered old Epiphone Dot Studio.  It had at one time been painted rattle can black, had obscenities written on it, all of which was later sanded off (in some places none to carefully), and it...

Hmm.. I have neither a tele tracing, nor a real tele to compare with.  Cagey - that start/tele case - I presume that being for an either-or, it's probably a bit looser on tele's than strats? I think (rough eyeballing) that the shorter distance betwxit bridge and the rear of the guitar on a...

Hi Guys, Just looking into case options for my new Velocity.  It fits pretty sloppy in my generic Strat-ish case, and won't fit at all into my Les Paul-ish case, and I'm hoping to find something that fits a little more snug, and not the full suitcase sized, more like the contoured type (see...

Getting really (really) close.  Technically, I could go ahead and call it "done" as she sits, as it's fully playable (and oh, how sweet this thing plays!), but it's got the neck from my semi-offset strat on it at the moment (because I'm not done with the 4x2 yet, and because the neck from the...

So, I have some cheap pickups laying around, and I read some interesting things about magnet swaps, so I figured for $25 or so with addiction-fx, I could have some fun and see what I got.  Here's my results. Duncan Designed HB102B (supposedly more/less a made-in-korea JB).    17.2K says my...

No pics for this one, just noting that yee olde pickups for this beast are ordered!    As of about 20 minutes ago, I have a set of Duncan APH-1's coming, along with a custom-custom (which is an alnico 2 based pickup like the APH's, but wound way way hotter than an APH - bordering on EVH...

Ohhh, I hadn't thought of that, but now that you mention it, I like it a lot!    Consider your idea appropriated.  :)

OK, getting real close here (i think - unelss I change my mind again entirely).  :icon_jokercolor:  Here's the cheezeball mockup (yay for my GIMP skills - such as they are).  Picture this in dark stained mahogany instead of light unstained mahogany. 

So, form vs function.... hrmm... I do have a tuner in my TC Helicon voice+guitar processor, I could live without one on the headstock (though my little Snark tuner is just marvelous, and I like it a long).  So, if I totally forgot that I clip things onto the headstock, what would do (I asked...

And to concur - yeah, doing a 4x2 out of a CBS (or any 6 on a side) headstock is definitely very fiddly.  It's a game of a mm or two between "say, I like that", and "ick, that looks like some moron cut down a fender headstock into a 4x2, what was he thinking?"  I am rethinking though, since...