Strat wiring help needed

[blakejcan]

Unhooked the neck from the guitar and ran it straight to the jack and into an amp. Nothing on the tap test. Argh.

 

[blakejcan]

Last update for the night--I retouched the solder blobs on the neck and now I got a reading of 5.9 which seems ok. Still no sound tho.\


Tried the same thing on the middle and got nothing.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Try clipping off the frayed ends of the push-back wires and feed them further through the baseplate and resolder the fresh ends on the blobs (remove all old stray wires, of course. But don't hurt the thin coil wires...if those look or test bad you may have bigger problems than you could handle. In which case you could have someone who winds pups fix it).

 

[blakejcan]

Re-flowed the solder joints on the back of the pickups and I got the neck pickup working now. Reads on the meter and tap test works as expected. Progress!

Middle still nada. Trying to decide if I am brave enough to take a couple winds off of the pickup and then re-thread it through the eyelets.

 

[beaubrummels]

after putting on my old man glasses and checking the resistance I got measurements on the bridge but nothing on the neck & middle. Looking at the neck & middle pickups where that frightfully tiny pickup wire meets the solder blobs on the back of the pickup.....they both look a bit frayed or otherwise messed up. I'm guessing that's the issue. What does the internet think?

That looks bad. I tried to use a strat pickup in my Jackson, which is direct mount, and the routing rubbed those same wires and damaged the pickup. Either way, that looks like a problem to me.

 

[blakejcan]

this is a homebrew body I made so there is def a chance I did not route the pockets deep enough and it rubbed. oof.

 

[blakejcan]

and now the bobbin wire to the eyelet is totally off and I can't unwind more of it. fug me