Andy40's first build - ST-1

[Andy40]

So the conversion bushings came in and were fitted. Needed a tiny bit of glue as the outside of the conversion bushings were exactly 10mm and the hole was too. The vintage backs are only a little skewed due to the wonky holes and the 10mm spacing.

All was right in the world until I snapped a screw. Now I'll not repeat what flew out of my mouth at the time, slightly more colourful than my guitar, but needless to say I do not have the specialist tools to get the screw end out, replug and redrill.

It all seems to be holding quite well without the screw but its gonna piss me off until I fix it later.

[wokkaboy]

Hey Andy, looks good, huge bummer about the snapped screw but should be fine without it, the tuner shouldn't rotate and doubt not having a screw head will be that noticeable.
If you run a straight edge along the tuner edges do they line up fairly well ?

[DrNomis_44]

So the conversion bushings came in and were fitted. Needed a tiny bit of glue as the outside of the conversion bushings were exactly 10mm and the hole was too. The vintage backs are only a little skewed due to the wonky holes and the 10mm spacing.

All was right in the world until I snapped a screw. Now I'll not repeat what flew out of my mouth at the time, slightly more colourful than my guitar, but needless to say I do not have the specialist tools to get the screw end out, replug and redrill.

It all seems to be holding quite well without the screw but its gonna piss me off until I fix it later.

Ouch!!.... I've been there and done that too so I know how you must feel, you can order these screw extractor kits online from Stewmac:

http://www.stewmac.com/SiteSearch/?s...xtractor%20kit

[Andy40]

Yeah they're pretty straight except for that one wonky hole "G" string which you can see in the pic.

[Andy40]

Update,

All new wiring done on the pearloid pickguard (which i totally forgot to take a picture of) but consists of:-
Tone rider vintage pups
Bourns 250K minis
orange drop cap (only one so far on the mid tone)
vintage cloth wiring
CLR 5 way.

my first attempt failed (yesterday), de-soldered and tested each wire and part and re-soldered this morning, found out that the shielding in the Jack cavity was shorting the circuit. removed sheilding in jack cavity....so far so good.

[wokkaboy]

good stuff Andy, glad the wiring is sorted. Might be worth plugging the G tuner hole with dowel and re-drilling so tuners are aligned. Which tuner did the screw break on ?

[Andy40]

The screw between B and high E.

So she has a voice now......the tone riders sound pretty good!!!! Yaaay but...... but somehow i have three tone pots (not respective to the switch) no volume knob. Also the bone nut is a fraction too high and I have to set the intonation.

[wokkaboy]

Andy so you have strung it up and plugged it in for a strum ?

trace the hot lug and output lug of the volume pot back to the 5 way switch and make sure solder on the lugs aren't touching each other or earthing out on the copper shielding, have you shielded the control cavity ? Should clear the shielding from the pot on the pickguard.
Also if the switch is a bit deeper than the supplied switch it may be earthing on the shielding, from memory I put a 5 way CTS switch in a ST build and the solder of the lower lugs hit the shielding

[Andy40]

Yeah Wokks, i think you might be right, if anything is hitting the shedding it would be the 5 way. I guess i might have to take the shielding out?

[wokkaboy]

Andy try lifting the pickguard a bit and see if the volume works. Unscrew the pickguard. If you think the switch is bottoming out on the shielding then get a screwdriver and rip out a section you think the switch is touching.
What wiring diagram did you use if you could please post it here