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Aw crap, I never thought about the change in tone. Both pickups are two condutor, the only difference is the Gretsch has one lead with an inner and outer core. I am loving how the fender sounds right now, so I might flip hot/ground on the gretsch and see where that gets me as it's the weaker sounding of the two.
Cheers Scott.
sounds like the way to go Pablo, hopefully you can sort this out
Me too. Two days left to get it into GOTM. I reckon I can do it. New pickguard and truss cover are on, I'll try to get some pics together this arvo.
as if the GOTM judges don't have enough headaches already !
Reversing the hot and ground won't change the tone of an individual pickup, just how it interacts when combined with another pickup. The potential slight change in tone I was talking about was only from physically flipping the pickup 180 degrees (though it probably wouldn't be detectable), but as I said that wouldn't alter the phase of the pickup anyway.
Your bridge pup doesn't have a chrome casing so that would be the better option to reverse the hot and ground on. If you reverse the hot and ground on a pup with a chrome casing and that casing is linked to its ground (and it usually is if there's no separate shield wire) then the casing becomes part of your 'hot' and fingers can easily touch a casing when playing.
Once again, you are a freakin champion Scott! Another thing I would never have thought of. Bloody legend. You really are the wiring guru.
Pic dump
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Ok, I'm sticking a fork in this one. There's still a few small issues with the wiring (probably going to tear it all out and start again) but otherwise done. I am tremendously satisfied with how it's turned out. Plays great, sounds great, looks great (I think anyway). Thanks heaps for everyone's help, couldn't have done it without you all. :)
Coming soon......
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Pablo nicely finished. Never been a Ricky fan and i ignore em when i see them in shops, but the colour and look of that bass keeps dragging me back into your build diary. love it.
Stunning job Pablo!
turned out very nicely Pablo, so your next project going to be a JM-1 modified ?