Aluminum strat project

[DangerousR6]

I think I found the perfect name for this one... :laughing7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR0Qh7pseos

 

[Cagey]

You kiss your mother with that mouth?

And while I'm castigating... you do know you're going to have to put strings on that thing, right? Doesn't matter how pretty it is, you gotta do the string thing. Don't worry - it's not like stringing up a Floyd. You'll not only be able to get it done between meals, you'll have time to play it, too!

 

[DangerousR6]

You kiss your mother with that mouth?

And while I'm castigating... you do know you're going to have to put strings on that thing, right? Doesn't matter how pretty it is, you gotta do the string thing. Don't worry - it's not like stringing up a Floyd. You'll not only be able to get it done between meals, you'll have time to play it, too!

Not on the lips, I bet I can string my Floyds just as fast if not faster than any other trem... :icon_thumright:

 

[DangerousR6]

I still got to wire in the jack and the bridge ground before I put on the strings... :toothy11:

 

[Cagey]

Y'know - it occurs to me that you don't have to ground the bridge. You can drill/tap a 6-32 x 1/4" hole anywhere in the control cavity, put a spade lug on a wire and clamp that under the screw. Your bridge/strings will end up grounded because your whole body/frame is highly conductive. For that matter, you might not need to run a ground wire at all. The output jack is automatically going to ground the whole body.

 

[DangerousR6]

Y'know - it occurs to me that you don't have to ground the bridge. You can drill/tap a 6-32 x 1/4" hole anywhere in the control cavity, put a spade lug on a wire and clamp that under the screw. Your bridge/strings will end up grounded because your whole body/frame is highly conductive. For that matter, you might not need to run a ground wire at all. The output jack is automatically going to ground the whole body.

Good point.... :icon_biggrin:

 

[swarfrat]

Might want to consider http://www.audiosys.com/safety-circuit.html

 

[Death by Uberschall]

Call it,....

Alien Artifacts

 

[Jumble Jumble]

Y'know - it occurs to me that you don't have to ground the bridge. You can drill/tap a 6-32 x 1/4" hole anywhere in the control cavity, put a spade lug on a wire and clamp that under the screw. Your bridge/strings will end up grounded because your whole body/frame is highly conductive. For that matter, you might not need to run a ground wire at all. The output jack is automatically going to ground the whole body.

Good point.... :icon_biggrin:

Which means, when you gotta ground a wire, you can just solder it ANYWHERE.

 

[swarfrat]

no to aluminum.

 

[Jumble Jumble]

That's true, it'd never work. Stick it down with tape.

 

[Cagey]

Well, you can solder to aluminum, but it's not easy. Aluminum oxidizes very quickly, and flux won't clean it off like it does with other contaminants. So, you end up with a tricky balance between an iron that'll be hot enough to do the job, and one that's too hot for aluminum. Its melting point is down in the 700+ degree range, and it'll anneal earlier than that. Solder melts around 400+ degrees, the insulation on your wire will melt/burn dramatically earlier than that. So, you see the problem. Plus, on a large surface area like that, it's going to act like a heat sink, so getting it hot enough to allow solder to flow is another trick.

All in all, you may as well say you can't do it, not because it's impossible but because it's impractical.

 

[stubhead]

Your pots are screwed to it, your bridge is resting on it, your jack is screwed to it - you solder the pickups to the switches & pots, solder them to the jack - what else do you want to accomplish with solder?  :icon_scratch: You just have to make sure no loose, bare wires are touching, BECAUSE ROAR:

I IS GROUND!​

  :headbang1:

 

[DangerousR6]

Nah, won't be any soldering to the aluminum, it'll all be done with crimp eyelets and screws..

 

[Jumble Jumble]

GUYS I WAS JOKING ABOUT SOLDERING TO THE BODY JEEZ

 

[DangerousR6]

GUYS I WAS JOKING ABOUT SOLDERING TO THE BODY JEEZ

:laughing11:

 

[SustainerPlayer]

GUYS I WAS JOKING ABOUT SOLDERING TO THE BODY JEEZ

No, ma'am. We at the UnOfficialWarmoth do not have a sense of humor we're aware of. May we come in?

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

"Kojak" is a befitting name.

Doesn't get much more Chrome than that!