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I'm decided, I'm going to perform a full electronics upgrade on the JEM, originally I was going to get a tremol-no but I like this idea better. I'm trying to spend as little money as possible without compromising anything. I'll be ordering pretty much everything from the axetec website So here goes:
New pickups: Irongear Pickups Dirty Torque and Blues Engine humbuckers along with an overwound Pig Iron singlecoil. Ill keep the stock pickups for experiments. Been wanting to try these Irongear pickups ever since I found out about them. I might write a review of them later.
Pots: 2 Axetec 500k Linear taper pots and an 0.022/0.033uf Orange Drop capacitor (not really sure about this one) Any suggestions?
Switch: I don't really know if this one is worth upgrading but I have two options picked out - a switch with enclosed contacts and a 5 way 4 pole super switch. Here's the link to the switches: http://www.axetec.co.uk/guitar_parts_uk_049.htm and heres a link to the wiring diagram(which has the 5 postion switch with enclosed contacts: http://www.irongear.co.uk/hsh_1_volume__1_tone_-_5-way_h-ss-s-ss-h_01.gif Any suggestions and a stupid question, if they're wired up like this are the humbuckers auto split?
Wires: Standard hookup wire and heat shrink tubing. There is one question mark though, do I need tinned copper wire?
Or I could just get the standard wiring kit but I'm not sure if it works for HSH, here's the link: http://www.axetec.co.uk/guitar_parts_uk_108.htm I'm looking at the first one in particular
All in all this should cost about around 100 Pounds.
This is the first time I'm doing an upgrade of this scale if this does turn out well I'll be posting a update.
Could you guys see if I'm missing something?
Thanks in advance
New pickups: Irongear Pickups Dirty Torque and Blues Engine humbuckers along with an overwound Pig Iron singlecoil. Ill keep the stock pickups for experiments. Been wanting to try these Irongear pickups ever since I found out about them. I might write a review of them later.
Pots: 2 Axetec 500k Linear taper pots and an 0.022/0.033uf Orange Drop capacitor (not really sure about this one) Any suggestions?
Switch: I don't really know if this one is worth upgrading but I have two options picked out - a switch with enclosed contacts and a 5 way 4 pole super switch. Here's the link to the switches: http://www.axetec.co.uk/guitar_parts_uk_049.htm and heres a link to the wiring diagram(which has the 5 postion switch with enclosed contacts: http://www.irongear.co.uk/hsh_1_volume__1_tone_-_5-way_h-ss-s-ss-h_01.gif Any suggestions and a stupid question, if they're wired up like this are the humbuckers auto split?
Wires: Standard hookup wire and heat shrink tubing. There is one question mark though, do I need tinned copper wire?
Or I could just get the standard wiring kit but I'm not sure if it works for HSH, here's the link: http://www.axetec.co.uk/guitar_parts_uk_108.htm I'm looking at the first one in particular
All in all this should cost about around 100 Pounds.
This is the first time I'm doing an upgrade of this scale if this does turn out well I'll be posting a update.
Could you guys see if I'm missing something?
Thanks in advance