Recent content by Taymar

Hi all, Picked up an inexpensive GFS 'Xaviere' LP style over the black friday weekend. Pleasantly surprised aside from one issue that's driving me nuts - the rosewood fretboard seems to be finished with something that's creating too much drag on my fingers when bending strings. Nothing at all...

Hi all, Hopefully this isn't a controversial question... had my first experience with Fender parts today and it wasn't quite what I expected. I ordered a set of stamped saddles and an F logo neckplate online, they arrived in all the Fender packaging and appeared to be legitimate and unopened...

Hello all, I've got two near-identical project strats, color, finish, and hardware are the only real differences. Same body and neck woods etc. On the advice I got here previously, one of them's got a set of SD vintage flat strat pickups (reverse wound center). Love how it sounds. I'm trying...

Hello all, I'm doing a color change, upgraded hardware and SSS conversion on a squier contemporary strat. I've just found that the poplar body has a thin veneer (possibly alder) on the front and back. The guitar is getting a solid finish (transparent red lacquer over metallic silver), so I...

Hi all, I've just finished wiring a new guitar with 2x humbuckers, a 3 way switch, 2x tone pots and 2x push pull volume pots with coil split. I'm having two issues. 1. The coil splits work backwards to how I'd like - right now pushed in is single coil and pulled out is humbucker. I want the...

Hi all, I have a couple of newbie questions I'd appreciate some help with please 1. on the seymour duncan wiring diagrams, I see a gray and a black wire from the humbuckers. Does gray on the diagram = bare silver wire on the pickup? 2. I'm using two CTS push/pull pots to coil split the...

Hi all, I'm looking for some replacement floating bridge posts with as narrow 'grooves' for the bridge plate as I can find. The thread size is m7x0.5 fine thread, and the ones I have are just a hair too thick where they contact the bridge plate. Any suggestions please on which brands might be...

Hi all, I've been looking for a replacement tune-o-matic bridge that seems to have a very uncommon post spacing of 72.4mm (2.85"), using the larger (6mm?) post size. Pretty much everything out there seems to be 74mm/2 29/32". I really want to avoid redrilling stud holes if I can help it...

Hello all, I've just got a new tune-o-matic bridge and am a bit confused cerned by the looseness of the posts. The holes in the bridge measure 6.6mm while the posts measure 6mm. So a gap of 0.5mm or about 0.02" This is a lot looser than other tune-o-matics I've owned, should I return it and...

Hello all, I'm looking for recommendations on what product to seal a neck with, that'll have a feel that's pretty close to bare wood. I'm wondering about sanding sealer or satin polyurethane spray, but not sure what's considered the best choice. The guitar is a cheap mahogany Les Paul style...

Hey all, I have a '59 neck, and a custom/hybrid in my Jackson Warrior WRXT right now. I've been listening to a couple of videos/sound clips of the Saturday Night Special set and they sound pretty great to me. It's hard for me to make a direct comparison because the demo tracks in the SD store...

Hello all, Hoping I can ask your advice again please. I picked up an inexpensive Les Paul style finished body recently and am starting to look for pickups. The guitar has a mahogany body & neck, and the neck is glued in. It's routed for 2 humbuckers, 4 pots and a switch. I'd like to try and...

Hey all, I have a set of single coils ready to install in a strat, and am a little unsure of how to wire the RWRP middle pickup and the bridge pickup. Vintage flat strat at the neck (SSL-2 - all good on this one) Vintage flat strat RWRP (SSL-2 rwrp) in the middle - I assume I still mount it...

Re: Troubleshooting no sound (short?) on new build? EDIT: well, looks like it may be the jack itself. Strange, because it worked fine before. If I don't push the cable in all the way, all the electronics work as expected. Maybe I melted something in the jack when I resoldered... Thank you guys...

Hi all, I've just completed my first build, and am getting no sound. I'm getting continuity between hot and ground on the jack, which I believe points to a short circuit? I've got a 59' neck humbucker (4 wire) and a 59/custom hybrid trembucker (4 wire). Two CTS DPDT push pull 500k pots, 3 way...