Building my own guitar, with no experience of wiring

[V1ntage]

Re: Building my own guitar, with no experience of wiring

I mean, I just picked up a cheap soldering kit at radioshack, seems to have done the job just fine.

Yeah my school has a bunch of woodwork, plastic and wiring based things, got a soldering iron at home but no stands or anything so I just have to turn it on and power through it in one go pretty much xD to be safe at least, so far its going ok, got a humbucker fitted into the neck position but I think its a bridge one (cheap 2nd hand) so hopefully the expensive one im looking to buy has a thicker deep sound im looking for

 

[V1ntage]

Re: Building my own guitar, with no experience of wiring


Done this so far, going to look to buy 3 switches and solder up the selector switch to have them all selected/remove it and wire them that way somehow and put a switch for each pickup

 

[V1ntage]

Re: Building my own guitar, with no experience of wiring

Going to buy 3 switches and wire them into the pickups, then cut holes for them in the pickguard and get the individual pickup system working, then I'll try for the individual tone pots, looking into how phase switches work but can't find anything, can anyone explain how those would work as I feel its not as complex as I think

 

[V1ntage]

Re: Building my own guitar, with no experience of wiring

I'm also switching from a burstbucker pro to a Seymour Duncan APH-1 Alnico II Pro Neck Pickup with a nickel cover, hopefully it looks nice with the 2 burns pickups, the sound is the most important bit and I had a friend who uses one recommend it

 

[Fonzie]

Re: Building my own guitar, with no experience of wiring

Yeah so far the soldering is just messy, but works, i've fitted a humbucker into a cheap diy strat, going to look to fit in 3 switches and wire up the selector switch to have all of them connected, best way I can think of at the minute to get the individual switches wired up

Sounds like a plan my man

 

[Fonzie]

Re: Building my own guitar, with no experience of wiring

^ If you've done a lot of soldering then you can usually make irons work that the beginner would struggle with. Best off to make it as easy as possible for the first-timer.

Very true.