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Post by UnklMickey on Dec 2, 2005 2:19:30 GMT -5
This thread will be used for posting images of templates for drawings.
If you would like to contribute your collection of switch, pot, pickup, capacitor, and resistor symbols (in either schematic or pictorial or both forms), it would be greatly appreciated by the "artistically challenged" members (like me).
this will help facilitate the generation of finished drawings for the schematics page. _____________________________________________________________________________________ courtesy of: almostawakepictorials for a Strat __ modified by: jimplaysguitar__________________________________________________________________________________ here's a sheet i modified from a post by fenleo. _____________________________________________________________________________
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Post by johan on Dec 2, 2005 3:16:41 GMT -5
This is a great idea, was thinking somewhere along the same lines, and make. I thought about making wiring templates for some common guitar setups (LP, strat, tele) that people could download and starting drawing lines on in MS Paint or so.
But separate elements will be a lot easier.
I'm sure though that there are some freeware/shareware programs available that give you all of that immediately. Maybe we could start exploring these. I would have already, only I'm on a Mac at home. And don't suppose I could starting drawing here at work :-)
j
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Post by allmostawake on Dec 27, 2005 16:35:37 GMT -5
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Post by johan on Dec 30, 2005 8:45:43 GMT -5
this should work better. great job!
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Post by Mini-Strat_Maine on Dec 31, 2005 19:00:53 GMT -5
Let's see if this will fly. It's based on the image (PDF) that Jay at GuitarFetish Sales sent me. My version was made with Microsoft Publisher 98, then made into a GIF with Paint Shop Pro. This is supposed to be two GFS "Crunchy PAF Zebras" as I think they're meant to be installed. I could be wrong. The bundled wires actually exit near the lower right corner when the pups are viewed this way, i.e., "string side, neck up." (Where the black line is.) The diagram in the PDF is drawn with the wires separate, so I did that, too. Magnetic polarity was determined with a Schatten Magnet Polarity Tester (Stew-Mac #5127). I could still be wrong. Whaddya think?
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Post by jimplaysguitar on Dec 31, 2005 19:37:55 GMT -5
I was bored, so I added a couple of 'buckers. Lol. Jim
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Post by UnklMickey on Jan 11, 2006 15:14:17 GMT -5
i think it would be even better, if the red and white wires were drawn separately so that we could see which coil each one goes to.
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Post by Mini-Strat_Maine on Jan 11, 2006 15:49:02 GMT -5
i think it would be even better, if the red and white wires were drawn separately so that we could see which coil each one goes to. Thanks for being charitable to us Diagramatically Challenged types. ;D I'll give that a shot. For the time being, here is the GFS color code as taken from the Seymour Duncan code on GuitarElectronics.com and HAS Sound's charts: Screw Pole CoilStart Finish Polarity Green Red South Slug Pole CoilStart Finish Polarity Black White North
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Post by sumgai on Apr 7, 2006 15:13:43 GMT -5
Anybody here using AutoCAD? If so, I'll throw in the blocks I use for my templates. Or would you rather have them as gif files? Smaller file size, but the details aren't as finely resolved. Come to that, I can convert to just about any graphic image file format. Probably not each and every one, but surely the most common ones. sumgai
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Post by ChrisK on Apr 12, 2006 20:00:49 GMT -5
I do. AutoCAD blocks are the best (but relatively unpostable). They preserve the object.
Backchannels are.
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Post by sumgai on Apr 14, 2006 22:45:09 GMT -5
Chris, Well, yes, but the more important thing was, for me, that the blocks look consistent, no matter what file format is used. I just do all my original work in AutoCAD, for obvious reasons. I can include a link so that users can pick them up at my filecabin location, as well as the gif versions. One thing I've not yet worked out in my mind is scaling. I think I'll slug out one more schematic, size everything so that it looks nice both on-screen and printed out, then "release" that set of blocks. Stay tuned, sports fans! Anyone else here using any version of AutoCAD? sumgai
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Post by sumgai on Apr 14, 2006 22:47:16 GMT -5
Chris, Curses, I just remembered...... I have to take the round-about method of converting my drawings to a more common format. I'm using R14, so to get the best-looking output for posting here, I use the Render interface, and select the Targa format. I then fire up PaintShopPro with that intermediate file, and Export to gif format (a redundancy, I know). For those that might not know it, when you have a predominately black-and-white image, a GIF file is about half the file size of a JPG file. Adding a little color usually doesn't change that ratio, but if your file has more than 256 colors, all bets are off. Then, JPG is the only way you can go, unless you choose to "uglify" your drawing. Bad ju-ju, don't do that.... stick with JPG. sumgai
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Post by Mini-Strat_Maine on Apr 19, 2006 14:39:00 GMT -5
I just updated the GIF I made of the GFS "Zebras," and tried to get it a little more as UnklMickey suggested above. The bare/shield wire is left out of this pic. If anyone has a chance to "QC" that against published GFS (Seymour Duncan) color codes like Stew-Mac's, I'd really appreciate it.
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