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G'day all! i'm currently building myself a new guitar. HSS strat style, swamp ash body, quilted maple top, maple neck and brazilian rosewood fingerboard. was going for a fixed bridge at first but changed my mind and went for a hipshot contour tremolo instead. i do have some duncan and dimarzio...

i'm about to wire a warmoth guitar for a friend. the guitar is strat style but it has 2 humbuckers and a 3 way switch. the wiring we're going for is Master volume (with treble bleed), Master tone ("treble control") and master tone ("bass control"). so the idea is to have 1 tone pot act normally...

Hi All! i'm currently getting ready to wire a pair of Dimarzios(god forbid!!!!) petrucci style. my problem? i have two wiring diagrams - one straight from Dimarzio's website and one straight to my mail from Dimarzio's Steve Blucher . and while they are both 90% identical, they are also 10%...

Hi All! could use some help with some wiring. basically what i haveis 2 buckers,a 3 way switch and 2 push/pulls. what i want is to add a mini on-on-on spdt so that i could reverse the phase. is it correct to assume that the only modification(wiring wise) needed to add the phase switch is to...

Hi all! i'm doing some mods on a guitar and got myself a bit confused. it's a 2 humbuckers guitar(blues saraceno & pearly gates) with a typical toggle 3 way switch, 1 vol & 1 tone pots(both 500k push/pull for coil splitting the 'buckers). i want to add a mini switch that'll enable me to go...

Hi, been a long time since the last time i posted here! good to be back. i have a technical question. i have, in the past made wooden pickup covers for bass guitars, where the wood covers the entire pickup. i am thinking of making some flamed maple covers for my pearly gates set to match my...

Hey, did anybody out there ever try to wire a pair of duncans the same way Dimarzio's steve special and air norton were wired on the old Ibanez petrucci model?(using a 4pdt on/on/on)? assuming i translate Dimarzio's wire color codes into the duncans correctly, should it work? i cant think of...

Hi all! a while ago i posted a thread regarding a wolfgang style guitar and was recomended the blues trem(b) & alnico pro(n).. since then a few things have changed regarding the guitar... the body will be a thick slab of 1 - 3/4" mahagony(african if it matters to anyone...) with a...

HI all! i just took out a pair of PG's out of my PRS and put them into an LP copy i made for my brother. i wired everything and it all works but i get a LOT of buzzing that seems to be coming from the electricity stuff and not some interruptions from outside(radio signals, the p.c...) i then...

Hey! a guitar that i m in the process of building for myself. PRS Mccarthy style body made of basswood and fitted with a nice quilted carved maple top. the neck is supposed to be just plain hard maple, bolt on...though i have considered gluing it in or maybe try the deep set neck tenon (like on...

Hello Forum memebers...its been a while! ive been thinking about rewiring one of my guitars. theguitar is equipped with a pair of pearly gates, and i wanted to wire them like the dimarzios on the john petrruci ibanez model. i got the schem, and was just hoping anybody could help me matching...