Are there any phone/Ethernet-type techies here? I have been wracking my po li'l haid over trying to find a way to plug in different parts easily. This guy:
There's a black "pickguard" laying on top of the green one.Those pieces of 1/8" plywood in back are the templates for more pickup-mounting plates - I can just cut out 5.5" X 5.5" pieces of pickguard material, dill the four mounting holes, then screw 2-3-5-7 (?)(!) of them in between the wood templates and cut 'em all down. An 18mm hole saw, drilling five overlapping holes, dang near cuts a Strat pickup-sized hole by itself. I did the HB holes the hard way, but now with that hole saw, wowie!
So the pickup plates, and the rear control cavity, are on tiny 4-40 threaded inserts. And the neck, the bridge, and the Hipshot Trilogy are all on big steel 5/16-18 threaded inserts. (The strings can go though the back of the Schaller 475 bridge, to the Trilogy pitch changer. I also have a string-through body bridge. And a fretted neck too!)
And, in looking at the Ethernet-style jack and plugs, they carry eight little wires (a standard phone line jack/plug/wire has the capacity for six). There's a quite straightforward process of installing the jacks on a piece of cable, and installing wires on the plugs. You can get a network tool kit that has the crimper (for jacks) and the "punchdown tool" for plugs - apparently tech guys do this stuff all day long!
So, with one ethernet (RJ45) or a couple of phone jacks (RJ11) in the pickup's swimming pool, and another set in the control cavity, I could wire the pickups to a plug and the controls to a plug in the cavity.... what I need to find out is if there would be some interference that the signals carried by the cable would generate. The RJ45 cable consists of four different-colored paired wires, and they're braided and interwoven for shielding. You just straighten them out, lay each wire into the right-colored slot in the jack or plug, and BANG! the tool forces them into the slot and the connectors are cut into each one.
I'm going to hook this guitar up to just WORK for now, while I investigate the mysteries on some ol' beaterphonic, but this may be the answer. Has anybody ever dicked with these cables? It almost seems too easy to be true. Change pickups in five minutes? Surely a cable that can handle high-def zoomed in porn can transmit a few little squacks and twinks of an electric guitar. :icon_thumright:
There's a black "pickguard" laying on top of the green one.Those pieces of 1/8" plywood in back are the templates for more pickup-mounting plates - I can just cut out 5.5" X 5.5" pieces of pickguard material, dill the four mounting holes, then screw 2-3-5-7 (?)(!) of them in between the wood templates and cut 'em all down. An 18mm hole saw, drilling five overlapping holes, dang near cuts a Strat pickup-sized hole by itself. I did the HB holes the hard way, but now with that hole saw, wowie!
So the pickup plates, and the rear control cavity, are on tiny 4-40 threaded inserts. And the neck, the bridge, and the Hipshot Trilogy are all on big steel 5/16-18 threaded inserts. (The strings can go though the back of the Schaller 475 bridge, to the Trilogy pitch changer. I also have a string-through body bridge. And a fretted neck too!)
And, in looking at the Ethernet-style jack and plugs, they carry eight little wires (a standard phone line jack/plug/wire has the capacity for six). There's a quite straightforward process of installing the jacks on a piece of cable, and installing wires on the plugs. You can get a network tool kit that has the crimper (for jacks) and the "punchdown tool" for plugs - apparently tech guys do this stuff all day long!
So, with one ethernet (RJ45) or a couple of phone jacks (RJ11) in the pickup's swimming pool, and another set in the control cavity, I could wire the pickups to a plug and the controls to a plug in the cavity.... what I need to find out is if there would be some interference that the signals carried by the cable would generate. The RJ45 cable consists of four different-colored paired wires, and they're braided and interwoven for shielding. You just straighten them out, lay each wire into the right-colored slot in the jack or plug, and BANG! the tool forces them into the slot and the connectors are cut into each one.
I'm going to hook this guitar up to just WORK for now, while I investigate the mysteries on some ol' beaterphonic, but this may be the answer. Has anybody ever dicked with these cables? It almost seems too easy to be true. Change pickups in five minutes? Surely a cable that can handle high-def zoomed in porn can transmit a few little squacks and twinks of an electric guitar. :icon_thumright:
