This is how mine ended up.
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Love the job you've made of that blue finish!
So what's the gap between your bridge plate and pickguard now—am I seeing about 3 mm in your picture?
Mark
This is how mine ended up.
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Love the job you've made of that blue finish!
So what's the gap between your bridge plate and pickguard now—am I seeing about 3 mm in your picture?
Mark
Yeah around 3mm. I was trying to get an even gap all the way around. It's pretty close. Colour is just automotive rattle can spray. You can get pretty good results with it.
Yep, part of why this hobby is so addictive, there is always something to try!
Hi Mark, the earth usually goes from each of your pots to the bridge plate, not from the pickups. See the link below:
https://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-co...f/PBG-TL-1.pdf
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Hi Mark. Yes, the bridge plate is normally connected to the pickup ground wire. From your photo, from the blob of solder on the bridge plate it looks like the braid on the red wire was once connected to the solder, but wasn't soldered well and it's pulled away from it.
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Your task, should you wish to accept it, is to do a better job and reconnect it so that it doesn't pull off again. It might be easier to wrap some bare wire round the braid, solder that to the braid and then solder the wire to the base plate.
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You'll be right. I think making a little bridge wire as Simons suggests is the most sensible approach. It'll give you a bit of flexibility with moving the wire around during install and you won't have to worry about it pulling away again.
Build 1 - Shoegazer MK1 JMA-1
Build 2 - The Relliecaster TL-1
Build 3 - The Black Cherry SG AG-1
Build 4 - The Sonicaster TL-1ish
Build 5 - The Steampunker Bass YB-4
Build 6 - The Howling Gowing ST-1
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