rockstar_not
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I'm turning a nearly free Squier Strat into a Dano-jazz-o-Caster.
Some details already underway:
1. I'm NOT using a strat pickguard, I'm making my own. Friend has a CNC (which we will also use to add in some additional route-outs of the body)
2. I have just pulled the trigger and purchased an SD SLD-1n and SLD-1b lipstick tube pickup pair; their pickups sized for Danelectros with one of them RWRP for noise canceling when in parallel wiring between both. I did this intentionally wanting the extra length so I could angle those suckers even at a bigger angle than Danos and still have all 6 strings covered.
3. I already have a pile of DPDT slider switches - wanting to do both parallel and serial wiring, as well as turn on and off individual pups, as well as having different tone cap values on-board at the slide of a switch.
I'm looking for some advice on wiring, cap values and pot types.
I do think I want just two pots, one for overall volume, one for overall tone control. On every electric guitar I've ever owned, I've either re-wired it that way or it came stock that way.
I have read somewhere that to put a pickup 'kill' switch in place, it's advantageous to wire in a cap to prevent 'pop' but in other places it's not needed. I just don't know what the cap value should be.
Also, looking for advice for tone cap values, and pot values and taper for the volume and tone pots. I'm the kind of guy that particularly likes smooth tone control over the travel of the pot; and like to use the volume pot not so much as a volume control as for a drive control for overdrive - I don't know if that makes sense or not.
Any takers out there on helping out designing the wiring to accomplish the goals above?
-Scott
Some details already underway:
1. I'm NOT using a strat pickguard, I'm making my own. Friend has a CNC (which we will also use to add in some additional route-outs of the body)
2. I have just pulled the trigger and purchased an SD SLD-1n and SLD-1b lipstick tube pickup pair; their pickups sized for Danelectros with one of them RWRP for noise canceling when in parallel wiring between both. I did this intentionally wanting the extra length so I could angle those suckers even at a bigger angle than Danos and still have all 6 strings covered.
3. I already have a pile of DPDT slider switches - wanting to do both parallel and serial wiring, as well as turn on and off individual pups, as well as having different tone cap values on-board at the slide of a switch.
I'm looking for some advice on wiring, cap values and pot types.
I do think I want just two pots, one for overall volume, one for overall tone control. On every electric guitar I've ever owned, I've either re-wired it that way or it came stock that way.
I have read somewhere that to put a pickup 'kill' switch in place, it's advantageous to wire in a cap to prevent 'pop' but in other places it's not needed. I just don't know what the cap value should be.
Also, looking for advice for tone cap values, and pot values and taper for the volume and tone pots. I'm the kind of guy that particularly likes smooth tone control over the travel of the pot; and like to use the volume pot not so much as a volume control as for a drive control for overdrive - I don't know if that makes sense or not.
Any takers out there on helping out designing the wiring to accomplish the goals above?
-Scott
