Solder Help

SmutVendetta

iCEByTes said: Your guitar need shielding. 😆
Cooper or paint, 😉
Wiring is piece cake. Get the schematic you want ....... or if you wanna try something new check my wiring style.

haha yeah they do, but if they wanted to live a plain boring life they'd just run away, i'm sure

Compared to the wire schematics it isn't wired stock...pretty shotty job after i looked at it, they weren't very sturdily soldered to the switch at all, definitely won't be taking my guitars back to that guy. So, I'm glad I learned to do it myself.

To my friend Joey: haha btw got it by the 3rd one

The first attempt (2 days ago) resulted in a blister on my thumb that was torn off yesterday. The gun wasn't getting hot enough, so instead of using my grandpas, which I ruined a tip to attempt this, I decided to get a new one, that would get hot enough and some new tips for him.

Yesterday I got it all soldered together, however I noticed a a piece fell out of the switch, this isn't something I've not seen before, I knew right away that switch was garbage, but the switch I re-soldered still works, so that's all gravy. Just need a new switch, and to do more soldering when it comes in! Hopefully I won't go burning myself again, that'd kinda suck with solder + lead in it.

SmutVendetta

The switches I ordered 7 weeks ago finally got in the other day. Replaced them almost successfully. The neck pup switch does not do anything when switched towards the neck, I looked at the schematics, I can't figure it out looking at that. Can anyone tell me what wire goes where to activate that? Or show me on the diagram anyway? I'm pretty sure mines set up like that, but I'm a noob at reading it so I guess I could be wrong.

Joey

double check, see if the pickup is not defective... if ya gotta spare jack laying around and some aligator clips ya can test it quickly without putting the guitar back together... use a tuning fork or tap the pickup, should be able to hear it thru your amp.

If the pickup is working, double check all your wires. I put my active JS back together the other day and sure enough, the plug in humbucker unplugged it's self while putting it all back together.

SmutVendetta

Joey said: double check, see if the pickup is not defective... if ya gotta spare jack laying around and some aligator clips ya can test it quickly without putting the guitar back together... use a tuning fork or tap the pickup, should be able to hear it thru your amp.
If the pickup is working, double check all your wires. I put my active JS back together the other day and sure enough, the plug in humbucker unplugged it's self while putting it all back together.

Okie dokie. I'll see, but if all the wires are all connected I honestly don't know which one would be wrongfully placed, 'cos like I said I think I followed the diagram perfectly.

SmutVendetta

Joey said: double check, see if the pickup is not defective... if ya gotta spare jack laying around and some aligator clips ya can test it quickly without putting the guitar back together... use a tuning fork or tap the pickup, should be able to hear it thru your amp.
If the pickup is working, double check all your wires. I put my active JS back together the other day and sure enough, the plug in humbucker unplugged it's self while putting it all back together.

Double checked. Even re-soldered some of these connections. Still, the neck pup does not work in the out of phase position. I cannot figure out what is wrong with this. Anyone have some pics I could use as reference, cos the diagram makes little sense to me if I did it wrong I misread it and - I was sure I followed it to a T. I must have something wired in the wrong place, that's the only feasible explanation I think. So please, anyone, take apart your JS and take a pic for me for a reference, I'd greatly appreciate it.

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