t1000
Rookie Solder Flinger
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Post by t1000 on May 22, 2006 14:38:45 GMT -5
Hi
Ive just used the shielding and star grounding techniques on my cheapo project guitar and its now alot quieter im having a bit of trouble in that the five way switch when in thelast position (towards bridge) i get no sound and also the tone control is acting as a volume. Im sure i have wired it as per the details but my guitar has 3 single coils and only 1 volume and 1 tone. I just omitted any wiring to the 2nd tone pot on the diagrams. Any ideas where I have gone wrong?
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Post by sumgai on May 23, 2006 2:14:30 GMT -5
t, Have you checked carefully for shorts? This occurs (more often than we care for!) when putting the scratchplate down onto the body. Some little inconsequential wire sticks out at just the wrong angle, and ker-blooie!, there goes the ball game. Try testing everything again, with the whole shootin' match out of the guitar body and on the bench. If the switch now works, you definitely have a problem like I described above. If it still doesn't work, use your most valuable troubleshooting tool - your eyes - to check carefully for solder bridges, bad solder joints, wires that may have broken away (it was moved/jerked when the pinch occured during the first mounting into the body), or a bent terminal on the selector switch. Does your tone pot act as a volume only when the selector is in the 'bridge' position, or at all times? Check for the same things in that region. Also, make sure that only two of the three terminals on the tone pot are hooked up. If the third one is going to ground (accidentally), then you'll get the volume control effect. HTH sumgai
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