Recent content by krm27

I did a project a couple years ago, installing two P-Rails in an old neck-thru guitar. After starting to install triple-shot rings and deciding I hated them, I decided instead to add four push-pull pots, under the tone & volume knobs, which let me set each P-Rail in any of the four settings...

I have a couple SD humbuckers (well, P-rails actually, but same wiring) with short leads. I currently have spliced extensions on the four wires & bare ground and put these in my guitar and they work fine, but it isn't pretty and there's some hum. Some one suggested replacing the leads and I've...

A couple days ago, I read some article or blog or whatever, by some one who supposedly analyzed where electric guitar tones come from and concluded it's 90% pickups and 10% everything else -- strings, pick, attack technique, guitar shape, woods, tuners, bridge, etc. So the conclusion was that...

Finished my first guitar wiring project / soldering project. Guitar is an older Asian Harmony, probably from early 80s, maybe earlier. Single cut, vaguely Les Paul shape with Les Paul controls (2V/2T, 3-way switch). Neck-through construction. Removed two mismatched humbuckers, mismatched...

I am replacing pickups in a guitar with shielded cavities (copper tape). I have un-shielded wires, not shielded, and wanted to use those to connect everything. However, I thought I read once that it is "necessary" to use shielded wire when the signal is passing between shielded cavities. I...

So, I posted a while back about a project I had to put a pair of P-Rails and Tripleshot rings in an old LP style guitar, and I got help here for diagramming how to wire it, then I dove in only to be "de-railed" near the finish line when the ribbon wires on one of my Tripleshot rings tore away...

I'm trying to diagram how to wire 2 P-rails with 2 volume, 2 tone, 3-way switch, and FOUR push-pull pots (each tone / volume pot serves as a push-pull). This gives me four setting options for each pickup, same as the triple-shot ring would. I found a diagram for something like this here...

I bought a pair of P-Rails and a pair of Tripleshot rings to put in an LP style guitar. I was doing the installation last weekend and was 90% complete. However, as I put the bridge pickup and ring into place, something happened and the ribbon wire running from the ring to the ring's circuit...

I had this old, unique Harmony neck-through Les Paul single cut style guitar, kind of a mystery as it's higher quality than what I understood Harmony Marquis to be making back in the day, looks like it might have been short run from Japan or something. Anyway, I like the body but pickups were...

This is my first guitar wiring effort, feel pretty burnt out spending hours watching videos and reading articles on how switch wiring works, and then applying that to my situation. I apparently have a crapped out 5-way switch on my 80's Japanese import fat strat type guitar. Unfortunately, I...

I have a new 5-way switch for my fat-strat clone, and I wanted to dive into my first wiring project. Step 1 was to get a good wiring diagram, or create one, to fit my particular situation. However, I've been stuck at step 1 for hours now, searching the internet. I cannot find a diagram that...

I have an old Yamaha fat-strat type guitar with HSS pickups and a coil split push-pull tone knob. I need to replace the 5-way switch and I'm considering moving to a super switch. My main concern is that with either regular or superswitch, I still only get 5 options. Like, do I really think I...

I posted this in a separate thread asking for help in fixing a problem with a neck pickup output. However, that discussion has led to me having some basic confusion about my pickup wiring, separate from the issue of whatever's wrong with the neck pup. So I thought I'd raise those issues in a...

I'm trying to learn about DIY guitar repair, so I'm tackling an issue with one of my guitars, and I need help. It's my first attempt to fix, or actually understand, the electronics of a guitar. The guitar is a 1985 Yamaha SE612, which is a fat-strat style with a 5-way selector switch, a volume...

I'm about to put a pair of P-Rails into one of my guitars, with the Triple Shot rings. I figured while I was at it, I'd replace the pots with CTS (500k). Also, I want to change the 47k capacitors that are in there. I was reading some recommendations for 22k caps with P-Rails and 500k pots...