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Rather than necro my 3 year old thread, I'll start a new one.
3 years ago I picked up an Artcore AF85 VLS. With what used guitar prices are these days, I decided rather than overpaying to finally scratch my tele itch, I'd just finally redo one of my existing axes.
I got a smokin deal on the Ibanez vintage vibrato with the roller bridge in gold which forced me (super twisted my arm) to redo the whole thing in gold hardware. Locking tuners and replaced the rest of anything chrome into gold and a set of Dimarzio EJ custom pickups which actually do give a very Gretschy sound that I'm really loving on. Couldn't be happier.
I completely replaced all electronics and even reamed out the holes for full sized pots. Had original mini pots and pcb toggle switch. Something is wrong with my wiring or maybe I cooked the pots soldering. This is where I need the advice. I've rewired guitars before but never a 2 volume/ 2 tone setup and never with a mechanical 3 way toggle. Always HSS superstrat types with blade switches and single tone singe volume pots.
I want the volumes independent in the middle position for both pickups. What I have now is both volumes turn completely off rolled below 7 in the neck and bridge positions. In the middle position seems the neck volume works til around 5 or 4 before turning off. Below 7 on the bridge still turns off and in the middle position rolling down either volume turns off both pickups and no blending available. Seems like neither tone pot is working at all. The neck one works a little bit but the bridge one isn't working at all. All knobs turned max, the guitar works normal
I used the 2 attached diagrams to wire it up. I wired it up like the Seymour 2 humbucker but I used the pickup wire placement from the Dimarzio diagram since the two companies use different colored wires. I had to blend the 2 together because I have the metric style toggle switch (shown in the Seymour diagram) and the Dimarzio diagram has the Switchcraft jack.
I used all bourns 500k audio taper and orange drop .022 caps. I did function check before the fun part of getting back in the guitar but I didn't check anything other the switch positions and the volumes all the way on and all the way off.
I did find like a god mode to getting the electronics in a hollow body in under 5 minutes. I tried the string method for a hour and kept getting skunked. At the end of my patience I walked away and thought of my 12 inch long curved tweezers I have for working in my planted aquariums. Had to use a string to pull the jack and my bridge ground through but the pots went in with those tweezers in no time and no frustration or swearing required.
Well the 2 diagrams I used plus a before and after photo of what it looks like now are attached. I basically took an AF85 VLS and turned into a 2013 AF95 VLS.
3 years ago I picked up an Artcore AF85 VLS. With what used guitar prices are these days, I decided rather than overpaying to finally scratch my tele itch, I'd just finally redo one of my existing axes.
I got a smokin deal on the Ibanez vintage vibrato with the roller bridge in gold which forced me (super twisted my arm) to redo the whole thing in gold hardware. Locking tuners and replaced the rest of anything chrome into gold and a set of Dimarzio EJ custom pickups which actually do give a very Gretschy sound that I'm really loving on. Couldn't be happier.
I completely replaced all electronics and even reamed out the holes for full sized pots. Had original mini pots and pcb toggle switch. Something is wrong with my wiring or maybe I cooked the pots soldering. This is where I need the advice. I've rewired guitars before but never a 2 volume/ 2 tone setup and never with a mechanical 3 way toggle. Always HSS superstrat types with blade switches and single tone singe volume pots.
I want the volumes independent in the middle position for both pickups. What I have now is both volumes turn completely off rolled below 7 in the neck and bridge positions. In the middle position seems the neck volume works til around 5 or 4 before turning off. Below 7 on the bridge still turns off and in the middle position rolling down either volume turns off both pickups and no blending available. Seems like neither tone pot is working at all. The neck one works a little bit but the bridge one isn't working at all. All knobs turned max, the guitar works normal
I used the 2 attached diagrams to wire it up. I wired it up like the Seymour 2 humbucker but I used the pickup wire placement from the Dimarzio diagram since the two companies use different colored wires. I had to blend the 2 together because I have the metric style toggle switch (shown in the Seymour diagram) and the Dimarzio diagram has the Switchcraft jack.
I used all bourns 500k audio taper and orange drop .022 caps. I did function check before the fun part of getting back in the guitar but I didn't check anything other the switch positions and the volumes all the way on and all the way off.
I did find like a god mode to getting the electronics in a hollow body in under 5 minutes. I tried the string method for a hour and kept getting skunked. At the end of my patience I walked away and thought of my 12 inch long curved tweezers I have for working in my planted aquariums. Had to use a string to pull the jack and my bridge ground through but the pots went in with those tweezers in no time and no frustration or swearing required.
Well the 2 diagrams I used plus a before and after photo of what it looks like now are attached. I basically took an AF85 VLS and turned into a 2013 AF95 VLS.
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