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Re: LiveWire Classic h/buckers capacitor value And, here it is! It's bewdiful! I wanna get it set up and play it! Not bad for a 30 year old freeby! I spent about 150 bucks on bits to do it up.

Re: LiveWire Classic h/buckers capacitor value Now it's starting to look like something.

Re: LiveWire Classic h/buckers capacitor value A bit of a mixed post. The headstock was pretty ugly, but not too damaged. I gave it a sand with #600 wet and dry and a couple of coats of clear gloss lacquer. The whole guitar is painted in lacquer. The body is matt black with a couple of coats of...

Re: LiveWire Classic h/buckers capacitor value The fingerboard. Yes, I did cut up an old pearl strat scratch plate to make inlays. It was a bit thick too and I had to sand down the thickness, but it looks great! I drilled a small hole into the old ones, put a screw into them and popped them out...

Re: LiveWire Classic h/buckers capacitor value OK! Here's a photo story. This is (was) a 30 year old MIJ Greco SG that was gifted to me as a project. The neck is straight and the body was pretty good, but the rest was just abused! New frets and fingerboard inlays. New paint and routering for...

Re: LiveWire Classic h/buckers capacitor value Wow! Two weeks and no comments? Is that because nobody knows or because nobody cares? I got it sussed without your input. They are 0.047's with 100k pots and 18v wiring. I'll post photos of my 30-year-old Jp Greco SG rebuild when it's done. It has...

G'day everyone, I've picked up a set of original Livewire Classic humbuckers pretty cheaply. They are not the Classic 2 because the lettering is not colored. They have never been installed and must have been sitting in the shop for years, possibly decades! I'm putting them into an old bolt on...

Re: Played a Epi SG G400 the other night - pickups are horrible Wow! No need to get defensive. It's only a discussion. Here are photos of my 2015 Black Beauty. You can see it is an extremely well finished guitar with nice binding and rounded edge frets. However, the pick ups only have two...

Re: Removing pot knobs - Any tricks? Hey NotCardio! I'm happy to hear you like it, but it's actually some seriously cheap wood! It's just a cheap basswood body from an el'cheapo guitar I bought for 20 bucks at the recycle shop. I've built a few in that style over the last few years. I...

I guess this belongs in the pick up lounge. Does anybody have any tricks or tools for removing knobs from pots? Of course, the plastic strat type ones are easy with a small driver under them, but you always damage the pick guard. How about the the Gibson acrylic ones? If you try to pry them...

Re: Hot Rodded Humbucker Set in a Gretsch??? Howdy! I'd go for the Hot Rodded pick ups without hesitation. I have a set in one of my strats and they have a great range and clear sound. I used to have a Gretsch and found the pups to be too screamy for lighter work. They were great for melting...

Re: H/S/H, 1-Vol, 2-Tone, 5-Way, Push/Pull??? Here's another diagram to add. This one just needs another pick up and tone added. Use this one to wire your humbuckers and the others to wire the rest. You can do it!

Re: H/S/H, 1-Vol, 2-Tone, 5-Way, Push/Pull??? Why does he want that set up? I don't think it's a good set up (personally). The split coils are a great idea, but I'd dump the tones all together and put three volumes (two split and one standard). I know it's what your client wants, but I think...

Re: Humbucker wiring help for monster strat I'm back! I tried to take photos of the wiring, but they seemed pretty pointless in the rat's nest of wiring. As a result, I drew a diagram of ho I wired it. I'm confident the pots are wired correctly, as per the diagram above. However, as the...

Howdy guys and gals. I'm building a monster strat and can't figure out the correct wiring nor can I find a diagram suitable to modify. Here's the deal: Neck and bridge - SD 'Hot Rodded' humbuckers Middle - mini rail bucker (cheapy) 3 push/pull coil split/tap volumes and a master tone (added)...