I recently purchased a Les Paul body as a project to learn how to work on guitars, and I've gotten everything down except the wiring. I thought I followed the diagram properly
but when I plug it in it buzzes like it's not grounded and the pickups barely make any sound if at all. This is a learning build so I used parts I had laying around (that all worked when I took them off) and the pickups are GFS Crunchy Pats off one of their guitars I'm working on. This is also my first real soldering attempt too and I bought that orange weller station for like $35, and a spool of .8mm 60/40 Lead Tin solder. Now onto the pics
This is the ground wire coming from the guitar onto the back of the neck volume pot
This pic is the ground wire from the neck volume to the neck tone
This pic is the ground wire from the neck tone to the bridge tone, as well as the ground from the output jack to the bridge tone (The braided cable wire itself is the ground)
This pic is the ground from the neck volume to the bridge volume
This pic is the toggle switch to the bridge volume (white wire)
This pic is the toggle switch to the neck volume (right green wire)
This pic is the bridge pickup ground and lead on the bridge volume pot (red and white wires are for coil splitting and are not used)
This pic is the neck pickups ground and lead on the neck volume pot
This is the neck to neck capacitor
(Can only post 10 pictures per post so I will continue in a comment below)
but when I plug it in it buzzes like it's not grounded and the pickups barely make any sound if at all. This is a learning build so I used parts I had laying around (that all worked when I took them off) and the pickups are GFS Crunchy Pats off one of their guitars I'm working on. This is also my first real soldering attempt too and I bought that orange weller station for like $35, and a spool of .8mm 60/40 Lead Tin solder. Now onto the pics
This is the ground wire coming from the guitar onto the back of the neck volume pot
This pic is the ground wire from the neck volume to the neck tone
This pic is the ground wire from the neck tone to the bridge tone, as well as the ground from the output jack to the bridge tone (The braided cable wire itself is the ground)
This pic is the ground from the neck volume to the bridge volume
This pic is the toggle switch to the bridge volume (white wire)
This pic is the toggle switch to the neck volume (right green wire)
This pic is the bridge pickup ground and lead on the bridge volume pot (red and white wires are for coil splitting and are not used)
This pic is the neck pickups ground and lead on the neck volume pot
This is the neck to neck capacitor
(Can only post 10 pictures per post so I will continue in a comment below)
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