first pitbull build ex in ash

Hi Andrew, have you seen this thread on fret levelling?

http://www.pitbullguitars.com/commun...iewtopic&t=179

Yeah have read it stacks, it's like my bible currently haha. Thanks for the link though, will book Mark it.

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/<\\/p>[/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/]<\\/p>/Quote from andrew on July 25, 2014, 13:44
Yeah have read it stacks, it's like my bible currently haha. Thanks for the link though, will book Mark it.

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Cool!
Had to get it out there since it was written by two self proclaimed guru's, legends in their own lifetime! :p

Total pros those guys haha. I'll be going the home job route for this one. I've got a Tele kit I built a while back that I'll practice on before I do the ex. Easier to replace a bolt on neck if I wreck it than the glued in one.

As much as I've wanted to pull my hair out numerous times on this build I've enjoyed it so much I've just order two more kits. Both are the ib7 kits but they differ a little. The first one, tweedle b, will be left pretty standard, tuned standard, just different pups maybe. I want to marble this with black and silver with candy red and a black burst.
Tweedle doom is special to me. 27" scale, quilted maple on basswood, black hardware and a tune o matic instead of the Floyd. This thing will get new pups, locking tuners. This beast will be tuned like an 8 string without the high e. Not sure what finish to do on this yet. Defs stained but not sure about colours. Have until oct/nov to finalise anyway. Mega excited now.

Hey guys. I've got all the electronics in and plugged in everything works, but I'm getting an insane amount of noise. Should I go back over the grounds and resolder them or does having it strung up help eliminate this?

Double check your jack. I reckon about 60% of noise cause is when people switch the ground with the hot on the jack.

Thanks mate. Hope you're right. It's a coil tap dual humbucker set up so there is about 100000 wires in there. Because of that, there is a stack of grounds connected to the pots. Is it ok to have the wires grounded to different parts of the pot or is it recommended to have one point in each pot and stick to that.

When I wire grounds I usually do pigtail connections and wire the lot to one point on the pot but it shouldn't really matter all too much. As long as you get the pot hot enough to flow the solder properly you will be fine. Double check your joints are all shiny. Dull ground joint might be cold and causing the noise too.

Does it stop when you touch parts of the hardware (bridge/strings/pots)?

All the joints seem nice and shiny. Yeah it does stop when I touch a pot. Wonder what it is.