Velocity body....my journey so far - It is done

[rauchman]

Man, that is just STUNNING!! So tasteful and so beautiful! Great work...

I'm in envy and awe of your work.....thanks for the compliment.

 

[rauchman]

Looks very good... :icon_thumright:

(I think you may have a typo of 100 versus 1000 grit)

Thanks for that.....fixed!

 

[stratamania]

Looks very good... :icon_thumright:

(I think you may have a typo of 100 versus 1000 grit)

Thanks for that.....fixed!

Edited my post...if you want to edit this one and then we are back on track  ccasion14:

 

[rauchman]

It is....done

Pics, as submitted to this month's Guitar of the Month contest....

Neck is a 24.75” Tiltback Strat conversion neck with a roasted maple shaft and ebony fretboard, with mother of pearl dots and SS6150 frets, standard thin, 10-16” compound radius.  Also, had a local shop make a delrin nut with slightly narrower string spacing…keeps the guitar in tune better than any non lock nut I’ve experienced.


Suhr Aldrich Bridge and Neck with chrome covers
500k pots with 1 DPDT pot (neck vol), which pulls both hum buckers to single coil and also switches the caps from .044 to .022
Bridge is a Gotoh NS510TS-FE1 with an FU Tone brass block, which is a little shorter, which allows a deeper pitch dive
Knobs were ordered on Amazon and have an abalone circle in the middle
Tuners are Hipshot non staggered locking with Hipshot white tuner buttons
Standard Tele like 3 way switch

Fantastic sounding and playing guitar.  Between the Velocity body and 24.75” neck, the guitar is very compact and balances beautifully.

 

[HCodi]

Nice work! I love the detail you put into it!

 

[stratamania]

It looks good and better than I expected in the beginning of this thread.

How did you end up doing the wiring with a DPDT?

 

[Great Ape]

Man, what an absolute GEM!!

 

[rauchman]

It looks good and better than I expected in the beginning of this thread.

How did you end up doing the wiring with a DPDT?

the neck vol is the DPDT.  Standard coil splitting for both pickups.  In the down position, used a jumper across 2 & 4 (the down position / humbucker position) and from there, ran a .022 cap to ground.  This, is addition to the .022 tone knob cap, seems to be working for the full up tone sound.  However, when actually using the tone knob, I think it's only sweeping from the .022 cap on the tone knob, not the full .044.  Not sure how to test that.

 

[stratamania]

It looks good and better than I expected in the beginning of this thread.

How did you end up doing the wiring with a DPDT?

the neck vol is the DPDT.  Standard coil splitting for both pickups.  In the down position, used a jumper across 2 & 4 (the down position / humbucker position) and from there, ran a .022 cap to ground.  This, is addition to the .022 tone knob cap, seems to be working for the full up tone sound.  However, when actually using the tone knob, I think it's only sweeping from the .022 cap on the tone knob, not the full .044.  Not sure how to test that.

I was wondering as in the other thread you were discussing switching between two different cap values. For the caps to have additive values they need to be in parallel. Is one end of the cap connected to the DPDT tone pot in addition connected to the tone pot?

 

[rauchman]

It looks good and better than I expected in the beginning of this thread.

How did you end up doing the wiring with a DPDT?

the neck vol is the DPDT.  Standard coil splitting for both pickups.  In the down position, used a jumper across 2 & 4 (the down position / humbucker position) and from there, ran a .022 cap to ground.  This, is addition to the .022 tone knob cap, seems to be working for the full up tone sound.  However, when actually using the tone knob, I think it's only sweeping from the .022 cap on the tone knob, not the full .044.  Not sure how to test that.

I was wondering as in the other thread you were discussing switching between two different cap values. For the caps to have additive values they need to be in parallel. Is one end of the cap connected to the DPDT tone pot in addition connected to the tone pot?

Yes, that is exactly correct.  The one .022 comes off the 2 (which is jumpered to the 4) of the DPDT, which is grounded, and then the other .022 is on the tone knob conventionally.

 

[stratamania]

It looks good and better than I expected in the beginning of this thread.

How did you end up doing the wiring with a DPDT?

the neck vol is the DPDT.  Standard coil splitting for both pickups.  In the down position, used a jumper across 2 & 4 (the down position / humbucker position) and from there, ran a .022 cap to ground.  This, is addition to the .022 tone knob cap, seems to be working for the full up tone sound.  However, when actually using the tone knob, I think it's only sweeping from the .022 cap on the tone knob, not the full .044.  Not sure how to test that.

I was wondering as in the other thread you were discussing switching between two different cap values. For the caps to have additive values they need to be in parallel. Is one end of the cap connected to the DPDT tone pot in addition connected to the tone pot?

Yes, that is exactly correct.  The one .022 comes off the 2 (which is jumpered to the 4) of the DPDT, which is grounded, and then the other .022 is on the tone knob conventionally.

It sounds like it should work if there is continuous ground. Of course the effect may turn out not to be  as obvious as expected...