Recent content by slidincharlie

According to the drawing here below (that is, pot seen from bottom), lug 3 reads open. This is where I soldered the cap.

Hi. I own a beautiful 1967 Danelectro-made Silvertone 1457 guitar. The stock configuration includes two lipstick pickups and a pair of staggered pots with concentric knobs (vol+tone) for each pickup (Fig1 attached, source: premierguitar.com). The pickups are wired in series, so that the...

Hi all, I have just installed a push-pull tone pot to have coil splitting in the bridge humbucker of my Squier Tele. If I tap with a screwdriver on each pickup blade (it has two blades rather than two rows of poles) with splitting engaged (=pot pulled up) I can hear a strong sound from the...

Hello, I'm new here and I have a question about the Mag Mic pickup. What soundhole sizes can it accommodate? I have an old parlour guitar with a 9 cm (3.54 inches) soundhole and I am wondering if the Mag Mic would fit this smaller soundhole. TIA. Carlo

I am looking for a neck Guild "mini-humbucker" pickup for my '66 Starfire. It's the two-screw type used through the Sixties, a little smaller than the later full-size hb. I don't care if the mounting hardware (ring, screws, springs) is missing: I need only a perfectly working neck pickup. E-mail...

Hi, I'm new here. I have a problem with the neck tone pot in my guitar that is driving me crazy . Hope someone can help me. The guitar: my '66 Guild Starfire V, wired with the hot lead from the pickups going to the center lug of the volume pots, like stock. Link to the schematic The...

Hello, I am (almost) new here. I'm looking for advice about the choice of a humbucking set for my Epiphone semi-hollow body guitar. I am looking for two pickups that are sweet and mellow, absolutely not aggressive, with smooth highs (bridge p.u.). I use mostly the central position (B+N), and am...

I suppose that this or similar inquiry has been posted here before... nonetheless I'll post it all the same. Maybe some pityful member will help me! :rolleyes: I own an Epiphone Riviera (335-style semi-hollow body). I play it through a sf Fender Vibrolux, and I like a light to medium crunch...