reluctant-builder
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I found this image of what is said to be traditional Jazzmaster wiring.
I heard, secondhand, that Matt Brewster, of 30th Street Guitars in NYC, said one could clip off the superfluous lug of the volume pot instead of soldering it to the pot housing. Is that a good idea?
Let's say I've taken Cagey's advice to heart (which I pretty much have) and I don't want to solder any grounds to my pot housings. When it comes to grounding capacitors, how best would I accomplish this if I eschew grounding them to the pots? Do I just solder them to another ground wire? Like, potentially, taking the .033 cap's ground and soldering it to the lead pickup's ground and then soldering that to wherever ... be it a screw or the bridge, or what. Good idea? Stupid idea?
The diagram has five different colors of wire ... six, I suppose, if those ground wires are black. I understand that different color wire is for the sake of knowing what goes where, but if I have only three varieties of colored wire, say I contrived some method of discerning difference like taping creme or blue masking tape near either end of a color already used (so red is red, but red with blue ends is ... etc.). Sufficient disambiguity? Or not?
I notice, in the above diagram, the jack is missing a ground wire.
Below is an image of a Rothstein pre-wired JM assembly.
Since the jack has a ground wire, I assume it was erroneously omitted from the diagram.
Looks like he's got a Novak P-90 in the bridge, which has a yellow hot wire ... versus the neck pup's white hot wire, and the yellow wire connecting the rhythm circuit switch to the master volume. So, maybe this lends some credence to me using only three colors of wire.
I heard, secondhand, that Matt Brewster, of 30th Street Guitars in NYC, said one could clip off the superfluous lug of the volume pot instead of soldering it to the pot housing. Is that a good idea?
Let's say I've taken Cagey's advice to heart (which I pretty much have) and I don't want to solder any grounds to my pot housings. When it comes to grounding capacitors, how best would I accomplish this if I eschew grounding them to the pots? Do I just solder them to another ground wire? Like, potentially, taking the .033 cap's ground and soldering it to the lead pickup's ground and then soldering that to wherever ... be it a screw or the bridge, or what. Good idea? Stupid idea?
The diagram has five different colors of wire ... six, I suppose, if those ground wires are black. I understand that different color wire is for the sake of knowing what goes where, but if I have only three varieties of colored wire, say I contrived some method of discerning difference like taping creme or blue masking tape near either end of a color already used (so red is red, but red with blue ends is ... etc.). Sufficient disambiguity? Or not?
I notice, in the above diagram, the jack is missing a ground wire.
Below is an image of a Rothstein pre-wired JM assembly.
Since the jack has a ground wire, I assume it was erroneously omitted from the diagram.
Looks like he's got a Novak P-90 in the bridge, which has a yellow hot wire ... versus the neck pup's white hot wire, and the yellow wire connecting the rhythm circuit switch to the master volume. So, maybe this lends some credence to me using only three colors of wire.