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Anybody know if Warmoth would rout a body so the Ilitch air coil noise canceling system could be installed around the pickups, which is apparently the best way to do it? I know I could ask the Warmoth help line, but thought I’d test the waters here first…this is for a speculative future Strat...

A CTS 500k audio taper left handed pot, with the wiring I need attached, and long shaft to boot; with the rear rout, I’m tired of having to leave off the lock washer to get enough bite on the shaft nut so the long shaft is the way to go (a customer service person from Warmoth told me short...

I haven’t tried a linear taper pot although I may try one at some point. I also want to try a reverse log taper, which would basically be a left-hand normal taper but swapping the hot and ground lugs. I’ve also kicked around taking an EMG left hand volume pot and rewiring which lug goes to which...

Here’s a picture of the new volume (top) and tone pots with the DuPont connectors attached: Got it all hooked up and playing, after the inevitable one connector plugged in backwards causing a short to ground; took me about 15 minutes to run that down and fix it. Lessons learned: Always get...

Oh I understand; my language was informal in using “you”, not meaning to imply you specifically were going to do some of this ;)

Next steps this weekend: verify continuity of the interconnect cables I built, solder the free ends of the connector wires to the appropriate pot lugs or grounds, then put the new pots in, connect them to the existing EMG interconnects, and test it out!

I didn’t research these connectors by part number and spec; I did some online searching about what kind of connectors EMG uses and eventually got to the phrases “DuPont connectors” and “Molex connectors”. It turns out there is some overlap between the two, but if you’re trying to create...

Heh - next time, I’ll lay in a stash of -999 connectors and really hit the MIL-SPEC button hard! (but…it would definitely be a weird but cool look to attach the guitar to the amp with a triple-niner connector screwing onto the guitar!)

I should say on all of this stuff, kudos to EMG for using standard parts; makes it easy to adapt non-EMG parts to this setup. Next steps are to wire the pots to the new wiring harnesses; probably won’t tackle that until the weekend, since I’ll have to break out the soldering station. Then...

Nex step…build some connectors! Here’s what the parts look like: It’s hard to take good pictures of these things; you can find better pics online. The top one is female and the bottom one male. The V-shaped bit on the male right side and the female left side wrap around the wire insulation...

After scheming out the wiring diagram I need, I will need four connectors: One two-connector male DuPont connector that goes to the existing two-wire female connector from the switch; the hot and ground ends of the male connector wires will be soldered to the volume pot input lug and ground...

Here’s a wiring diagram, directly off of EMG’s website, showing how I’ve hooked up this guitar (black is ground, speckled white is hot, red is +9V): Mine is currently just like this except I have an additional active control, but those hook up serially and the last one in the chain outputs to...

Now that I have a couple of months in with this guitar, it’s very good - plays very smoothly, stays in tune really well, balances really well, the burnished neck is a thing of beauty, lots of tonal options with the active clean boost and active mid boost - but I want it to be great, not just...

The back is a tobacco burst-over.

Count me in on the “don’t finish the roasted maple neck”. Instead, burnish it with a progression of 600-800-1000-1200-1500-1800-2000 grit paper (Super Assilex and Super Buflex work great) and in 90 minutes or so, you’ll have the guitar neck of your dreams!