My first build - STA-1 custom

[wokkaboy]

nice job Damo, the satin clear looks great. You must be stoked with the colour

[omad1]

nice work so far Damo, so with the switch in the lower horn what controls will you have in the usual area just 1 volume and 1 tone ?

EDIT just saw the stain looks great !

Thanks mate , so for the controls I have gone with 2 volumes so I can turn off a pickup and use the 3 way switch for the Tom Morrello tricks, and 1 tone which is also a push\pull pot, setup to split the coils of both of the pickups for a bit of enhanced tone tweaking, the volumes are CTS 500k audio taper and the tone push\pull is a Bourns 500k Audio taper.The 3-way toggle and input jack are both switchcraft. I had to get a blank strat scratch plate it was shaped on the outside edge but I had to cut out the holes for the humbuckers, vol/tone pots and also widen the back of it to fit the Floyd Rose.

I am using 2 pickups I already had in my collection of stuff , the bridge is a Seymour Duncan Custom 5 (basically a hotrodded PAF) and the neck is a Gibson Tony Iommi Signature pickup, I've also installed a Mallory mustard capacitor .uf22 on the tone pot after watching a really good tone cap comparison video on the youtube and because i have an orange drop on another guitar so thought I would try something different

[omad1]

nice job Damo, the satin clear looks great. You must be stoked with the colour

Yeah really happy with it, saw a few dark stains on here recently and was hoping once I applied it, it would retain some of the reddish that it had shown when I had used it before and it seems to of stayed true to that on the ash even after using the dark coloured wood filler

[wokkaboy]

sounds awesome Damo, you have done your research on the electronic upgrades. I am also a huge RATM fan and love Tom Morrello's playing, he is so unique with his sound and has some very cool techniques. Can't wait to hear a demo of you doing some cool Tom Morrello tunes !

[omad1]

here is a look at the scratch plate I wired it up last night , took 4 goes at 4 different schematics for me to get it right , I've attached the one that actually worked for me, the 3-Way toggle in this one matches the one I have installed, and once I realized that, I looked back at the other ones and realized were actually right, just the design of the actual 3-Way was different and my male eye for detail missed that thus I had the earth and signal from the tone pots the wrong way around, also one of the schematics I had been looking at had the signal lead and the capacitor on the tone pot swapped so it was working backwards but once I followed this schematic everything worked as I had hoped it would

[wokkaboy]

nice job of the wiring Damo. You won't get the output jack through to the jack cavity

[omad1]

nice job of the wiring Damo. You won't get the output jack through to the jack cavity

what do ya mean ? nah yeah just used it for testing

[wokkaboy]

Hey Damo, meaning you will have to unsolder the jack tips to fit the wires through to the jack cavity and re-solder them to the jack.

[omad1]

Hey Damo, meaning you will have to unsolder the jack tips to fit the wires through to the jack cavity and re-solder them to the jack.

I was just being silly with that confused comment I just wired it up to test it out, I held the pickguard over one of my other guitars and strummed its strings to ensure all the components were working as they should

[wokkaboy]

haha no worries Damo all good mate.
What is your favourite RATM song ?