Recent content by Sniper1

Do copper wire leads tell the age of a pickup,being as nowadays pickup leads use silver colored wire?

Have Dillion DTT72 Thinline Tel,came with a set of Dimarzios($150) which I don't like, what would be the best pups for this type of guitar?I play mostly Blues and Country.

Using a LP clone(2V,2T,3Way)If the electronics cavity is copper shielded correctly,can a star ground be used instead of soldering ground wires to all the pots?

Looking at a number of guitar schematics I noticed that some diagrams show the cap being wired to the tone pot only,other diagrams show the cap being wired between the tone and the volume pot,Am I right to assume that no matter how the cap is wired it will still be correct?

I have a LP clone that I shielded the electronics cavity,Is it really necessary to shield the pickup cavities also? I am using covered humbuckers wax potted.I'm ready to reassemble the guitar but need to know about the pickup cavities.

What are you guys using to clean and polish your guitars.Can't see paying 4 bucks for a frickin rag at the local shop.You would think that when you plunked down big bucks for a guitar they would throw in the rag and polish for free but NOOOOOO!! extra 10 bucks,Oh for the good old days.

Installed GFS Dream 90s in my JT200Pro,Guitar sounds like playing in a tin can, someone suggested that maybe the pups were out of PHASE,Do I correct this by reversing the wires?(Ground to hot/hot to ground)?

This post is mainly for the first time DIYs,(To you old pros,feel free to jump right in with all 4 feet).For a virgin DIY, tearing into the guts of a guitar can be hairy and rarely is the outcome right the first time(back to the drawing board). There are a number of posts on this forum and...

In search of the almighty magic tone,many of you people must go through a lot of high end pickups at an incredible cost,paying out 2/3 hundred dollars per set, What do you people do with them if you decide that they don't have the tone you were looking for? The guys who say they have a bunch of...

Aquired a set of Godin pickups that were in a Godin Flat Five,the pickups are humbuckers with a black metal base plate marked F(neck) and R(bridge) 4 wires-BLACK,RED,GREEN and WHITE,smoke chrome metal covers and adjustable pole pieces.According to a few guitar sites these pickups were made by...

Does weather effect a guitar in its case? (aside from leaving it in the trunk of a auto.)

Anyone know about Godin pickups? They came out of a Godin Flat Five guitar.

Aquired a set of Epiphone humbuckers(2 wire),stamped into the bottom plate is EPIPHONE F and EPIPHONE B,I have seem Epiphone pickups before but this is the first set I've seen with the logo stamped into the metal.Anyone know the time frame of these?

Whats the pros and cons as to wiring pups in series instead of wiring them parallel?

Guitar is a 335 clone with 2 humbuckers,2 volume 500 K Linear,2 tone 500K Audio with 22uf caps.1 varitone switch.Pups are Tokai humbuckers,NECK reads 8.22,BRIDGE reads 7.57.Correct me if I am wrong but isn't the bridge pup supposed to read higher than the neck?Also the neck pup is buried deep...