newbie question - do I sand down the neck joint to fit?

Check all your earth's, make sure you've earthed the end lug of the volume pot.

And it looks great!

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Originally Posted by stephen_r

Finally finished. Made some changes even added a personal touch from Macau Casino. Anyway, wired it up with the help of a friend. Heaps of noise and the bridge, P90, nothing. So back to the drawing board I guess. Wired it up as per diagram but the p90 has nothing and overall the output is very low but that is insignificant compared to the general noise. I'd ask for any advice on what may be the likely issue but I guess you will all say, recheck all the wiring :)

Was thinking whether or not to line the cavities with foil....Attachment 10814 Attachment 10815

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Looking great Stephen. I always liked the idea of these guitars, but the pot placement is all wrong. If they had been behind the switch I reckon I would have bought one of these for my first kit. Love what you've done with it though. great colour and the poker chip is a cool addition.

I had a similar issue wiring up, then realised I hadn't earthed one the pots to itself. If you watch the wiring video you will see one of the pots has one terminal bent over and earthed to the base of the pot. Easy to miss on some diagrams

Thanks, I was concerned too, once I built it and played it a l;ittle last night (despite the noise) they didn't get in the way. But I do agree, if they were set further back that would have been perfect. :)

I'll have to recheck the wiring my friend has done as I think the issue will be the bridge pickup not being earthed correctly. The diagram has the PU's earthed separately and I think the two were joined first (ie twisted around eachother) then earthed so I think the connection may not be that good.

I'll post a pic of the wiring

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Full length shot. I'm going in tonight to check this wiring. Stay tuned. Wish me luck :)

OK, re did wiring, sorted some of the noise but still nothing from the bridge pickup. Even when you tap on it nothing. When selected alone on the three way switch, zilch noise.

Short of the PU is dead or the three way switch is an issue, I'm up for suggestions. :)

Have you tried switching your pup wires on the 3-way? I thought I had a problem with my TL-1 so I tried wiring the neck pup to the bridge location on the 3-way switch. It at least proved that there was nothing wrong with my pups. Turned out all the noise and dead bridge pup was the result of wiring the output jack backwards.
Can you post a pic of your output jack wiring?

Nice MArshall DSL

Also if you have copper sheilded, sometimes the 3 way switches touch on the sheilding which short out some circuits.

Hi Stephen,
could be a few reasons why the bridge pickup has no output.
So the neck pickup is working ok and do you have much buzz/hum ?

the output jack should be wired correctly if the neck pickup is operating ok.

Have you got a multimeter Stephen ?

check the resistance of the bridge pickup hot wire and earth - P90's I think they are should be around 6-8k ohms - if you are getting no reading this will indicate the bridge pickup is dead.

both neck and bridge pickup earths can be joined to a common earth point but I'd make sure they have a good contact with the earth wire.

make sure the bridge volume pot there are no stray wires touching other lugs or the copper shielding may be earthing the signal.

also have you run an earth wire from the bridge to a common earth point ? First time I've seen one of these kits, does it have a tremelo with springs on the back ? usually you earth from the spring claw on a tremelo setup.

Also make sure the volume pot the 3rd lug is earthed to the back of the pot casing.

What are the 2 controls is it 1 vol/1 tone or 2 volumes ?

please post a pic of the control cavity.

Also check your switch wire connections are clean and no stray wires toughing the casing or other lugs.

EDIT I just had a look at the kit photos and the tremelo plate has an inbuilt spring on the back. Looks like you had to run an earth wire from the bridge posts to the control cavity, did you do that Stephen ? If you didn't the guitar isn't correctly earthed and will have an ugly hum.