Sew what do ewe guise dew with exposed control cavity wires?

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MetalManiac

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I had to extend all the wires on my pickup leads. I did a swell job on that, but modern electrical tape from China is junk, it will not old nand becomes a gooey mess. I ran through my last stash of old stock electrical tape, so i know I should have used shrinkwrap, but I don't think I was up to all that shrinking - there are a full 7 or 8 leads that need to be insulated. I guess masking tape is about my best bet?;

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I always use solder and heat shrink tube. Preferably a crimped splice clip too, but I don't always do that.

Why did you extend? Looks like tons of excess wire there, unless I'm seeing it wrong.
 
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1. ffs clean your house man that's just sad.

2. I love that guitar its subtle yet worthy.

3. Your wiring looks like a home abortion job
 
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Your wiring job is as bad as mine. Answer your phone Cabron!
 
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haha...put your ear close to that wiring & I bet you could jive to to the radio.. :lmao:

My work is messy lol but that puts me to shame man..having said that heat shrink is your friend :D
 
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Ok mien hair commandants- I fixed it..well, kind of. Yeah, I hope all that wire doesnt create "eddy currents", whatever the hell an "eddy current" is.

Anyhow, I highly recommend ( not sure I would recommend it tomorrow after I am not so high anymore) this red tape by scotch you get at the auto parts store ( or the the "rust bucket gizmo shack" for u Aussies). It seems to be a lot better than the crummy electrical tape made these days. Its called Scotch decorate and repair tape". I had to disguise the switch so no one can see my super secret switch wiring that gives me the best tone in the world, sorry.

Oh, and I thought it best to extend the leads cause not only did the middle pickup have short leads, the thin red hotwire is so fragile on these leads I didn't want to pull the whole harness over to the switch terminals.

I think the 250K pots are gonna work with this bridge pickup. That Walnut just wants to be very bright. I could never get the bridge to sound any good,but the middle and neck- very round and full sounding , moreso than any other Strat I got- thats the Walnut body and the Rosewood neck.


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being an electronics tech (i studied for that the past 3 years, now i'm suffering on university trying to become an electronics engineer, but that has no relation at all to the thread) i've seen really bad wiring, i even seen a complete set of offices from a gob company so bad wired that the splices were insulated with plastic bags twisted over them...... but your wiring seem messy by comparison, at least whoever insulated the wires from those offices with plastic bags used colored bags to differentiate connections, you're using 3 wire colors seemingly at random without even shielding your cavity :omg: and then you insulated it with masking tape, man even duck tape would have been a better choice.for the love of cthulhu please get a decent soldering iron, if you have one and the tip is crap, get a steel nail of the same diameter and set it instead, use soldering paste and good solder, not the uber thick one, but the actual good one, not the chinese crap which costs a dime for 3 feet, also try to solder your components outside the guitar, set them on the cavity and then solder the pickup and jack wires.i'm with you most electrical tape nowadays is crap, that's why i no longer buy my electrical tape on any electronic components store, but rather on 9.99 stores, as they carry this rainbow electrical tape packs
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crap is thin compared to standard electrical tape, but it also has a drier glue, which won't go gooey and you can wrap it really tight and stretch it it will hold and the glue is quite strong, also i buy them for around the same price of a "normal" black M3 electrical tape roll which won't hold as much and will get gooey after a pair of weeks
 
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Your pickup wires were already too long before you spent pointless time extending them further.
 
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I think rats have made a nest in that wiring cavity at some point. Whats all that shredded paper in there?
 
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3M Super 33
The electrical tape of professionals
 
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I just cut ALL the wires out of mine... makes for a nice and VERY tidy control cavity.

Now if I could just figure out why I can't get any signal out of my amp...
 
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Your pickup wires were already too long before you spent pointless time extending them further.
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10/10 Agree.

There's tons of lead left on those, why did you bother? This needs to be redone, seriously. I certainly hope htis isn't a gigging guitar, or your going to have some problems.
 
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a rats nest..
I personality do not cut the 'pup wires much but all other wires i cut so they have a little bit of slack in them. Also I prefer heat shrink tubing over any electrical tape. IMO, it just looks cleaner
 
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