BigAlTheBird
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What's up guys?
So, many of you know my Green Buddy, the project guitar I bought last September and have been working on. Well, by working on I mean I haven't done anything, cause I have no money. But when I am done, every single thing except the wood and the headstock logo will have been changed (literally). Here are the first two topics:
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=85694
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=86842
Long story short, the guitar shipped (and I knew this) with electronics that did not work. Well, the pups seemed to work but the pots were all sheared off, and verything was garbage. I plugged it in once, played for under a minute, and then unplugged it and ripped everything out. Haven't heard it since. I am planning on getting new pups and electronics for it, but installation is going to kill me (upwards of $100 probably).
So two days ago, I got an idea. I still have all of my pots and stuff from my Epi Les Paul (that I don't have anymore :yell
when I changed all the electronics in that (thanks Bada Bing!). But nothing was together (just 4 pots, the jack and switch, and wires all separate). And I have never done any electric work or soldering, hell I'd never even touched a soldering iron. But I got this idea to put everything back together, and hook it up to the 40 year old pups in the guitar.
Well I did just that! I put everything together, and I had a ton of wires and stuff coming out of the guitar. I couldn't put anything in, because I'm not good at that - this being a semi-hollowbody, it's really hard to put stuff in. But I wired it all up, and after some grounding issues, the guitar was making noise (only from one pup though)! That was yesterday.
Today, this afternoon, I decided to get both working. So after a while, both pups were working (biggest smile since my Gibby came in the mail, by the way)! But everything still dangled down when you played, since no pots or switches were attached to anything except wires. So I came up with this solution this afternoon:
Basically I have everything going through a piece of cardboard, and then that piece of carboard is in a ziplock bag. the ziploc bag is screwed to the pickguard (or rather, the pickguard screw goes through the corner of the bag). This way, the whole system is self supportive. I am a genious!!!!
Long story short, I have an actual, working guitar for once. And these old pups sound pretty good! This is the happiest I've been in a long time. I played a little D-A-G song through the phone to my girlfriend, and it's the happiest I've heard her in a long time (this is technically her guitar). Thanks everyone for all the help!
Here's the pic - goofy I know, but hey, it works:
So, many of you know my Green Buddy, the project guitar I bought last September and have been working on. Well, by working on I mean I haven't done anything, cause I have no money. But when I am done, every single thing except the wood and the headstock logo will have been changed (literally). Here are the first two topics:
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=85694
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=86842
Long story short, the guitar shipped (and I knew this) with electronics that did not work. Well, the pups seemed to work but the pots were all sheared off, and verything was garbage. I plugged it in once, played for under a minute, and then unplugged it and ripped everything out. Haven't heard it since. I am planning on getting new pups and electronics for it, but installation is going to kill me (upwards of $100 probably).
So two days ago, I got an idea. I still have all of my pots and stuff from my Epi Les Paul (that I don't have anymore :yell
when I changed all the electronics in that (thanks Bada Bing!). But nothing was together (just 4 pots, the jack and switch, and wires all separate). And I have never done any electric work or soldering, hell I'd never even touched a soldering iron. But I got this idea to put everything back together, and hook it up to the 40 year old pups in the guitar.Well I did just that! I put everything together, and I had a ton of wires and stuff coming out of the guitar. I couldn't put anything in, because I'm not good at that - this being a semi-hollowbody, it's really hard to put stuff in. But I wired it all up, and after some grounding issues, the guitar was making noise (only from one pup though)! That was yesterday.
Today, this afternoon, I decided to get both working. So after a while, both pups were working (biggest smile since my Gibby came in the mail, by the way)! But everything still dangled down when you played, since no pots or switches were attached to anything except wires. So I came up with this solution this afternoon:
Basically I have everything going through a piece of cardboard, and then that piece of carboard is in a ziplock bag. the ziploc bag is screwed to the pickguard (or rather, the pickguard screw goes through the corner of the bag). This way, the whole system is self supportive. I am a genious!!!!
Long story short, I have an actual, working guitar for once. And these old pups sound pretty good! This is the happiest I've been in a long time. I played a little D-A-G song through the phone to my girlfriend, and it's the happiest I've heard her in a long time (this is technically her guitar
). Thanks everyone for all the help!Here's the pic - goofy I know, but hey, it works:
