Great thankyou, i think i will now start from all new.
Also i noticed on the north and south of the switch from the factory there is a terminal that is wired to ground , do i replicate this on the new switch?
(purple arrow in pic)
Thankyou
Mark
Great thankyou, i think i will now start from all new.
Also i noticed on the north and south of the switch from the factory there is a terminal that is wired to ground , do i replicate this on the new switch?
(purple arrow in pic)
Thankyou
Mark
^^^^Also i noticed on the north and south of the switch from the factory there is a terminal that is wired to ground , do i replicate this on the new switch?
Yes
If you think of the switching circuit the same as a tele, the diagram below uses an 3-way "import" switch and is easy to follow. Since your not splitting coils, you can think of the HB's as just having 2 leads. 1 positive, 1 negative.
Wire the HB's just like the SC's in the diagram and you'll be right. The only change is that you'll be using 500k pots instead of the 250k shown.
I hope that helps and doesn't add to any confusion.
Cheers,
Mick
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Awesome , giving it a go now .
Thanks all most helpful.
Mark
Hi just another question,
Looking at my bridge pickup on another guitar a TL-1 kit.
I replaced the bridge pickup with a fender one, underneath it has a blue ground wire that goes to a little plate that touches the bridge plate then out again.
I imagine this grounds the bridge plate?
I also put a neck humbucker in it and wired it all as per the diagram above.
I just realised when installing the input jack, i ran the ground wire from the back of the volume pot to the correct side of the input jack, but i also ran another wire again from the back of the volume pot to the ground of the input jack (so ive doubled up the ground.)
Can i leave this or will it cause problems, its not to much hassle i just have to take it apart again.
Thanks Mark
Also in regards to the ST-1, when connecting the ground to the bridge plate ( i have a hardtail bridge so no trem) it is chrome plated, do i have to scratch the chrome off before soldering? Or can i put the wire around a bridge plate screw?
Thanks Mark
Last edited by Froffy; 09-12-2019 at 10:23 PM.
...i was reading you need to scratch the chrome off, as its vey hard to solder to chrome and you need the bare metal for it to adhere....do i have to scratch the chrome off before soldering? Or can i put the wire around a bridge plate screw?
The ground wire to/from the hardtail bridge doesn't need to be soldered. It only needs to make solid metal to metal contact with the plate.
The way I ground a hardtail is:
strip off about 15-20mm of insulation from your ground wire > slightly splay the copper strands so they are thin & flat > tin the strands well with solder > stick the tinned wire into one of the bridge mounting screw holes (enough so about 1cm is in the hole and the rest will lay flat under the bridge plate) > mount your bridge with the screws making sure one screw makes contact with the tinned wire in the hole > use your multimeter to test for continuity between the bridge and the other end of the ground wire > done...
That wire isn't going anywhere and will maintain a good solid connection for all eternity
I should have mentioned that this is presuming you already have a hole drilled in the body underneath the bridge for the ground wire.
This is just me and the way I do it. I'm sure others do it differently that work just as well.
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Ok great thanks .
Yes there is a hole for the ground wire in the body.
And also as i already have a few wires grounded to the back of my volume pot, can i conect the bridge ground to the ground of the input jack? (there is a ground wire from the volume pot to the input jack already) or just make a new solder point on the volume pot.?
Thanks Mark
Last edited by Froffy; 10-12-2019 at 09:47 AM.