Recent content by thqm3

Re: Wiring Questions. There's another Duncan document here which grounds them separately. It's likely both are right, I just had the impression the shield should be grounded to avoid extraneous noise - I've never tried connecting the shield to hot so I can't comment on any potential result...

Greetings all! I've knocked this wiring diagram together for a custom build and would really appreciate it if someone would mind double checking it before I do the big install. It's a mix of a number of diagrams, including a '50's-style Les Paul volume and tone arrangement, the dual push-pull...

Re: Which color pickups look best on a boring black shredstick? Go nuts! Seriously though, red on black would look pretty cool. might depend on fretboard material?

Hey all, I'm toying with the idea of putting an active boost circuit into one of my guitars but have a concern that it will react unfavourably with the octave fuzz pedal that sits first in my chain - it's a tychobrahe clone that needs to see an unbuffered input otherwise it sounds awful. Anybody...

Re: Ibanez s420-Replace Pickups Sorry, swap top to bottom rather than colour for colour on the neck. This diagram (not mine) looks right.

Re: Ibanez s420-Replace Pickups I had a JB/Jazz set in an S320 (older, 22-fret version of the same model) for years and got a range of compliments on that combo. In fact they only came out yesterday so I can do a refin and add a mid pickup. With regard to your wire colours, the following...

Greetings all! Hoping to harvest your collective knowledge regarding Super Switch options - I have a wiring diagram ready to go which requires a 4p5t switch, but the guitar body I want to put it in is very slim - the cavity depth is only about 1 1/16". The only switch that I'm aware of that...

Re: Intense guitar wiring, separate tone knobs? So, each tone pot is also an on/off switch for its respective pickup, and the master volume is a split for the humbuckers? You were pretty close - all your grounds are good, but you've confused yourself by using pictures where 2 pots are upside...

Greetings all! I found the following diagram online updating the Nighthawk wiring for a modern SuperSwitch: From what I gather, for Duncan pickups the wire colours would be black instead of green (hot out), read and white instead of green and black (doesn't appear to matter which is which)...

Re: P rails and a standard 3-way telecaster switch Edit: Sorry, ignore my previous response - I misread the question. Posting n00b. Further edit: I notice that this is also your first post - out of curiosity, was there some kind of delay after writing it that you had to wait for moderator...

Hey all, long-time lurker, first-time poster - actually I tried to post this yesterday but for some reason it didn't make it past a moderator. Basically, I came across this schematic for the original 3-pickup Gibson Nighthawk's somewhat idiosyncratic wiring, but I can't quite see how all the...

Greetings all! Long time lurker, first time poster... For some time I've been working on a wiring diagram cloning the Gibson 3-pickup Nighthawk circuit for a modern SuperSwitch (the original appears to have used some sort of proprietary 5-way) and Duncan TB-4/SSL-2/SH-2 setup, but have come to...