Guitar Picking up Radio?

[skamyth]

hey guys,

i bought a crappy squier stratocaster 2 at a garage sale the other week for 25 dollars. i decided to take it apart and paint the fretboard. i did that, and verythign looks good now, but the insides arent working. i think i might have jossled some wires.

what hapens, is when i plug in the guitar to the amp, it will sometimes work for about an instant, but then cut out. then, if i put my finger on the pickup switch, the guitar hums, and inthe background, you can hear the hispanic radio station coming thorugh the amp.

whats wrong?

[dunkelfalke]

looks like you have wired hot and ground at the jack the wrong way

[skamyth]

in english please?

what do i need to do, if this is fixable?

[vonFrenchie]

You wired the hot and ground at the jack the wrong way. In other words the two wires at the output jack (where the inards of the guitar meet the cable that connects them to the amp) are the wrong way. So flip them around. Or you can completely rewire your guitar which would solve the problem. Its a squier so the wiring probably isnt the greatest.

[UnklMickey]

hi guys,

another possibility: the wire connecting the ground of the circuit is broken.

perhaps at the output jack, or at the other end, at the case of the volume pot.

that would also result in those symptoms.


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[vonFrenchie]

Or maybe the titanium plate in your head is just messin with your brain. I love telling my uncle that.

But yea.... check the wiring... and the plate in your head, if you have one.

[gumbo]

Hey! That's great...we can only get Australian radio staions on our amps here.....what's the wiring mod to get Hispanic?

[vonFrenchie]

I get Canadian radio stations when I have my friends old ibanez strat copy here