Finally finished this guitar! And I gotta admit...

WhoGivesAPluck

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You know the feeling when you work on something for 2 weeks waiting for parts in the mail...All the frustration and redbulls, then you finally finish it and it sounds better than you ever hoped for?? Ahhhh! That's a great feeling :D I gotta admit though, my wiring job looks like crap! ugh...2xP/P pots a battery and all kinds of crap stuffed in there, now that I know the wiring though, I guess my next project will be to redo everything, and I'm thinkin a white surrounding for the white humbucker will look better ideas? I will make a video playing it when I get new strings, I popped a string messin with it :/ But over all, im VERY happy with the sound of these EMGs and everything works Better than I could have hoped for..Thanks everyone who answered all my questions ;D And I defanitly learned alot doing itunnamed (6).jpg
 
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Congrats, man!

I'm on the home stretch with 2 guitar projects that have been almost 2 years coming...ha ha! Hopefully I'll get to experience that same great feeling soon, as well.

And, yeah, a white surround might look a little cleaner on the neck pickup.
 
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:) Just to log my progess in case I have to backtrack and since I couldn't find the diagram anywhere I had a lot of trial and errors. Problem #1. I didn't have the input jack with an extra ring for the battery ground. problem #2 grounding problem with the sheilding tape touching a hot wire Problem #3 soldering is a pain in the A%$!:mad: and had to drill another hole :blackeye: So my idea was to have 2 independent tone pots for each pup with P/P on each for dual/single modes, but also so each tone pot can have an independent cap to always be able to easily upggrade etc. with a master vol. :banana:STRAT2.jpg So I have...ugh... .............a whole %$# lot of sounds coming outta this thing :lmao: just went cap shopping on ebay, so I'm looking forward to trying all these caps and working on the tone!
 
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I can't help but think the first cap in the circuit if it's a higher value aka .047 will block a lower cap aka .022 on the pup after the 0.22 cap so it would still only be a 0.47 cap reaching that pup at the end of the circuit, is there something i can put in between them to bring the signal back to it's original state? then go thru the second cap with a fresh buffer..maybe i'm just way too boned up to make any sense lol or it made perfect sense! :D
 
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Which EMG's are they? By the way, move this thread to the Guitar Shop.
 
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Those cap values are for passive pickups, not actives.
 
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Congrats dude. And I know the feeling. I spent about 5 hours last night putting Seths in a Les Paul Studio so I could try 50's wiring and record a few things with it.

I was just about to start another thread asking, "Ever notice how a pug guitar looks so much better after you wire it?" (I think it's just me. The before/after photos don't look any different, but to me, it's just about become my #1 guitar, for now.)
 
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