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    Copper Wire

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

    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.
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    Star Grounding

    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?
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    Wiring Caps

    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?
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    Guitar Shielding

    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.
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    Clean Guitar

    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.
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    In Phase Or Out Of Phase

    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)?
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    For You DIYs

    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...
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    High End Pickups

    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...
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    Godin Pickups

    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...
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    Weather Effects Guitars

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

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

    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?
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    Pup Wiring

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

    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...
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