The output wire from the switch must be ok because you get sound from the one pickup.
So it’s either the ground wire making a bad contact with the back of the volume pot (soldering to the back of a pot isn’t easy), or the hot wire to the switch isn’t going to the right place, or the grounded braid from the working pickup is touching an exposed part of the switch or exposed signal cable from the non-working pickup. Easy enough to undo the cover plate and check on the last one.
Less likely options are a faulty switch or a faulty pickup with an open circuit/broken wire.
Do you have a multimeter at all?
It is done
I plan to put a set of Elixir Heavy strings on it, right now I'm using standard 42 - 9 strings
Looks great!Originally Posted by lotion5238
It is done
I plan to put a set of Elixir Heavy strings on it, right now I'm using standard 42 - 9 strings
My issues with the switch were in fact, shitty wiring too.
Not only ‘yee’, but also ‘haw’ as well!
Fantastic work. Now if you can just practice and improve your soldering from ‘shitty’ to ‘OK’, you’ll be knocking your next guitar out in no time!
See I had spent time to learn it, uhh like 3 years ago. I should have probably practiced again in hindsight but I actually needed to swap Irons because my beginning one straight up was not getting hot enough to melt the solder on the back of the volume pot, which was frustrating me and making my ability to work worse.
That looks amazing! Great teamwork!
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Luc was having some issues getting photos to load, so I took some pictures of the guitar completed, and thought i would share them He did a bangup job getting all the hardware installed. I'm really grateful to this community for the help and advice you guys gave. Thank you all so much, from the both of us.
Thank you guys again for making this a successful build!
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