Folding back a tab on the volume pot... Push/pull problems

[ragamuffin]

So I'm pretty much fresh off the boat when it comes to guitar wiring/electronics, and am starting my first project guitar. (HH MiM tele body with a Warmoth neck and P-rails wired push pull).
Using this diagram http://www.seymourduncan.com/images/support/schematics/2_prails_1v_1t_tspp.jpg

I thought I had things pretty well figured out until I noticed that one of the volume pot prongs in the schematic is folded back and soldered to the back of the pot. The problem is, I'm using a push pull pot (one of these http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_pickups/Potentiometers/Alpha_Push-pull_Pots.html) where the prong won't reach a good soldering spot, so I'm wondering what exactly I'm supposed to do with it.

What is the purpose of folding back the tab, and what should I do with it in this situation?

Thanks in advance for the help  :dontknow:

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Use a wee bit of wire.

 

[Cagey]

What is the purpose of folding back the tab, and what should I do with it in this situation?

Assuming the pot's body is grounded, folding a terminal back and soldering it to the body takes one side of the internal resistor in the pot to ground. If you can't get the terminal to the body, then just wire it to a convenient ground.

 

[ragamuffin]

Awesome! Now I've got all of the wiring done aside from the pickups which are coming in next week.  :headbang1:
But then comes the long haul of waiting till I can afford a good neck  :sad1:

Thanks for the help!

 

[ragamuffin]

Update: I tested out the pickups today (holding the body up to the strings on my other guitar) and the neck and bridge positions seem to be working fine, but there's no sound at all in the middle position.

I'm guessing this is a problem with how I wired the switch. The schematic I used showed a Gibson-style three way, and I used a tele blade switch. Any ideas where I might have went wrong? Thanks

Here's a pic (it wasn't very clear, so I colored the lugs red, bridge pup blue, neck pup green, and volume pot yellow)

 

[Surf n Music]

I found this and think it is right but I am relatively new when it comes to guitar wiring also. It looks like yous is flipped around but I could be wrong. Let me know what you find.

 

[ragamuffin]

I found this and think it is right but I am relatively new when it comes to guitar wiring also. It looks like yous is flipped around but I could be wrong. Let me know what you find.

It's actually supposed to be flipped around I'm pretty sure (Blacktop tele and I didn't want to bother with routing) but I think you might have solved my problem anyway.
ccasion14:
I'm using a CRL switch, and I'm pretty sure I wired it Oak Grigsby style. I'm going to wire it the other way and see if that fixes the problem. I had assumed that any kind of 3-way blade would using the same wiring.

 

[Cagey]

Update: I tested out the pickups today (holding the body up to the strings on my other guitar)

Just as an aside, a neat trick that's a lot easier than trying to mate two guitars is to get a tuning fork...

... then you bang it something and hold it up to the pickup. You can test whether the pickup works at all, as well as whether the volume/tone knobs and pickup switches are doing their thing. Plus, you can use it as a tuning reference. They're less than $5 at Amazon.

 

[ragamuffin]

Yep, wired it like the CRL diagram and the middle position is working fine now! Sadly the neck pickup seems reaaaaally quite, so I guess I need to keep playing around with things  :sad:
Getting the wiring right is a lot harder than I thought it would be... I guess it will make me appreciate the guitar all the more once I get it working.

The tuning is fork is a cool idea too, I didn't know the pickups would pick up the sound

 

[Cagey]

Well, they don't pick up the sound, they pick up the vibration. Sorta splitting hairs there but you get the idea. It's a moving piece of metal in a magnetic field, just like a string.

 

[Surf n Music]

Yep, wired it like the CRL diagram and the middle position is working fine now! Sadly the neck pickup seems reaaaaally quite, so I guess I need to keep playing around with things  :sad:
Getting the wiring right is a lot harder than I thought it would be... I guess it will make me appreciate the guitar all the more once I get it working.

The tuning is fork is a cool idea too, I didn't know the pickups would pick up the sound

Well I am stoked it is working at least. I am about to do mine and wasn't a 100% if I was right. I have done lots of other wiring be it cars and semi conductor industry but never guitars. Hopefully your neck pickup stops whispering.  :icon_scratch: