Gr-1sf

[stan]

the black looks great Jeff, nice result

[Jeff Sheridan]

Hi Jeff, the supplied wire isn't shielded at all. Using it on a GR-1SF would see the git producing some extra hum, as you just cannot adequately shield one of these.

I like Wierdies idea of a single balance pot, my loom effectively has two, one for each pup, A single pot would be easier to dial in a
balance

Cheers PK

Kells,
Thanks for the advice, I put in a order for some, should arrive this week or next, then the build will resume!
Aloha, Jeff

[gavinturner]

Nice work Jeff. The shielded wire is great as you can use the shielding to carry the ground signal. If you do this, the noise will be minimised (grounded shield is always better). You can just solder the shielding to the back of the pots as the wires pass between them, and similarly out to the Jack.

cheers,
Gav.

[Jeff Sheridan]

After much attempted wire solders, great setups that didn't work, tears, burns, research, failed attempts I reached a high point of frustration. Thoughts of giving up were crossing my mind, how much would a guitar tech charge me anyways? But I perserveared thru the guitar building doldrums where you feel like you don't know or understand what is going wrong and why won't you just work for me! Thoughts. Finally with renewed knowledge and prayers I made another attempt at WierdBits elusive circuit. And this time... It worked! Thank God! Really I needed to know a little more about the grounding of shielded wires to make it all happen.

[Jeff Sheridan]

Now if I could manage to figure out how to resize pictures I will post soon!

[keloooe]

Hi Jeff, I tend to use a program called paint.NET for all of my image editing, it is free and you can resize easily.
Also you could upload to Imgur.com and use the BB code link to also upload your images directly in the thread text.

[dave.king1]

Now if I could manage to figure out how to resize pictures I will post soon!

I use Irfanview it's free and supports a multitude of image formats including RAW if you want to get really fancy

http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm

[Jeff Sheridan]

An update on my Gr-1SF build. After I wired er up I couldn't contain myself and had to put the rest of it all together that night and the next day. I had practically assembled the whole thing earlier during the mock build anyways. I couldn't get the bridge and bigsby piece lined up without screwing some of it down so I had all the hardware set up even before the sand and paint phase. The paint slightly filled in all the screw holes making for a nice snug fit when I came back in for the final fitting. Hardware on I quickly put on the set of strings provided for the set up, plugged her in and had a go. The strings felt very easy to bend and Hard to feel due to their thiner than I was used to gauge. After my initial relief of actually hearing it make noise, I was left nervous of finding something wrong...and I have to tell you, I didn't! I was all ready to move into checking the action/frets/intonation etc when I got into playing it. I had a few of my friends alternately play and listen to it just to make sure I didn't have a case of "isn't my baby beautiful" both confirmed that it played well, sounded good and the action was great. So I left it alone and have been playing it for the past week. Took it for a test run at my church's youth group and it belted out a quick set of ska punk influenced worship songs. I'm not quite done building it but have been loving playing it already, thank you Pitbullguitars! Still got to make my custom cover for the truss rod and put my emblem on the back flat spot where the neck attaches to the body.
Aloha, Jeff

[gavinturner]

Photos Jeff! We need photos!!

cheers,
Gav.

[keloooe]

Pics or it didn't happen