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Hi all
I'm relatively new to the electric guitar and just built my first Pitbull kit, a dst1 with mahogany body. After all the finishing I assembled the whole thing and plugged it into my amp to find there was no output. The only points of soldering was a yellow and black cable from the volume control which I soldered to the output jack. I switched them around to see if that was the mistake but still no sound. Just wondering if anyone knows what's wrong, thanks.
Hi and welcome Willem.
Just checking, what is the dst1 kit?
Also, can you include a photo of the pre-soldered section, and the jack soldering. It might give an indication as to the problem.
Thanks Trevor
It was the dst-1 with mahogany body and 3 single coils
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The black wire from the volume pot also contains a white wire and the ground (shielding). The white wire is the hot wire. The yellow/orange wire is probably the bridge ground.
You will need to desolder the jack socket. Then strip the end of the black wire and so that you can locate the white wire. The white wire will need to be stripped a bit and soldered to the jack hot terminal, and the black shielding wire soldered to the jack ground. The yellow orange wire should be soldered to the back of the tremolo claw.
I hope this helps.
[QUOTE]this should work
Oh ok, so I split off the white wire inside and route the yellow to the bridge?
Thanks
Also, but it is hard to see from the pictures, you may want to use more solder when soldering to the jack socket. There is lots of room to add heaps of solder on those lugs.
Yes. There should be a drilled hole from the pickup cavity into the tremolo spring cavity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Willem Stack
Additional: The orange wire should be soldered onto the trem claw.
This link shows where the orange wire should be soldered - https://www.buildyourownguitar.com.a...l=1#post225889
It's exactly as TD has suggested, as far as I can see. Orange wire to the claw. JUST the black wire to the jack. The shielding wire should go to the the jack's ground (the ring lug). The white to the jack's hot (tip lug).
That should work if all the other connections are correct. The pickguard came pre-wired, correct?
Yeah it was all prewired besides the black and orange wire
Working fine now, thanks for all the help
Got to love Strats for having almost everything already on the pickguard. Even if you're doing it from scratch it's considerably easier ;-)
Just a tip for soldering if i may humbly interject,
its a good idea to "tin" the wires first by twisting the stripped ends and applying solder to them before you solder them onto whatever, and also there is like a thin electroplated type chromed coating on the backs of the pots and sometime other solder lug components that should be scratched off first to get a good solder join, i usually use an old knife or sand it back whatever works especially the backs of the pots, they have like a thin electroplate coating of some sort maybe zinc alloy etc, im no expert forgive my 2 cents input hope this helps someone.
I always use as much solder as i can i like a proper good solid solder connection i always try to thread the tinned wires through any holes neatly so as much metal to metal contact is obtained and i very carefully strip my wires so as to avoid loosing wire strands also.
Im no expert however so dont take my word for it just experienced a bit.
[Correct me if im wrong please]
Glad you got it going your axe looks really good in your photos if i may say.
Nice job sir.