please could someone help

[netrunner]

hiya i have a new guitar ... well i say new .. its a 15 - 20 year old sunn mustang based on the strat and licensed by fender .. my problem is i have been doing some heavy modding to it andi'm adding a fourth pot and so i'd be very gratefull if someone could tell me how i can wire a third tone pot up to control the neck and still leave my two mid and bridge pot's the same. any help would be greatly appreciated and i'd be happy to post pics of my finished guitar afterwards

[UnklMickey]

Netrunner,

welcome to GuitarNuts2.


one would think that the Sunn Mustang is wired the same way as a Strat.

assuming that's true, we know in your case, at least the tone side of the selector switch has been re-wired.


could you post a drawing of the wiring you have now?


unk

[netrunner]

okay ive tried my best to put my wiring as clearly as possible but i aint no artist hehe well here it is images6.theimagehosting.com/mustang wiring.JPG[/IMG][/URL]

[UnklMickey]

hi Netrunner,

i'm not much of an artist, but i think both of us draw well enough to get our ideas across.

it don't need to be pretty to do that.


it looks like all you need to do, is to connect the wiper of the neck tone pot to the bottom lug of the right side of the switch.

then connect the ccw lug through a capacitor to ground, just like the other 2 tone controls.


if you don't have another capacitor, you could connect the ccw lug of the neck tone pot, to the ccw lug of the middle tone pot. they CAN share the same capacitor.



cheers,

unk

[netrunner]

thanks a lot mick i kinda realised how simple it looked once i drew it all out but its allways worth making sure since i havent done any electrical work for over 4 years ;D major thanks tho .. btw should have the guitar ready and pictures taken in a few days so am looking forward to hearing what ya think

[UnklMickey]

pix are always good!

i don't have a digital camera myself, so i don't have any to share.

(in that respect, i guess i'm still living in the stone age.)



i can tell you what i think, even before i see the pictures.

you'll be pleased that you added another function to your controls........


........................BUT...........................


......................you won't be satisfied for very long.


in a few weeks, at most, you'll be looking to change the switching, pickups, bridge, tuners, or something.

after all, there's a reason we're called GuitarNuts!



cheers,

unk