Finishing Touches
The upgrade job on Blackie is nearing completion. These are the completed mods at the time of writing:
- Aluminum foil shielding
- CTS 250K pots
- Oak Grigsby 5-way selector switch
- 0.022µF and 0.047µF capacitors
- Fender Tex-Mex pickups
- Switchcraft #11 output jack
- Ground lug from volume pot to body cavity shielding
- Vaughan-Wacker Strat Wiring Mod
- Five tremolo springs
- Wooden tremolo block
The Vaughan-Wacker Strat Wiring Mod incorporates two wiring schemes: the Fender Jimmie Vaughan Stratocaster and "Gibson ‘50s wiring on a Stratocaster," the brainchild of guitar guru Dirk Wacker. By the way, I'm going with a .022µF cap for the neck pup tone pot and a .047µF cap for the bridge pup tone pot. Now, on to the pics.
Vaughan-Wacker Strat Wiring Mod
Pots and Switch Wired In
Closer view of the switch and pots.
After wiring in the pickups.
Fender Tex-Mex Pickups
Closer view of the pickguard wiring.
Wiring Completed
Five springs and a wooden tremolo block.
Awaiting Aged White Fender knobs
Excellent work.another guitar saved by cikgu.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the positive feedback, sifu. This is only the 2nd time that I have not grounded the volume and tone pots' casings with a wire; thanks to your advice about ground loops :)
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ReplyDeleteHey, these might be some completely silly question but I am really confused.
1. It would seem to me that the jack, the volume pot and the common of the switch are all a big electrical common point. Is this intended? How does that work?
2. Aren't the tone pots wired to anything else? I imagine you isolated them from the shielding, but if that is the case, how do they perform their function? Or maybe they don't?
Obvs I don't know electronics enough.
Thanks for the clarifications!!
Dawncloak, thanks for dropping by and sharing your thoughts. I have sent you an email, hope it helps to clarify a few things. Have a nice day :)
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ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I haven't received any message at all!
Could you please send it again to crissaegrim1 [x] hotmail.com ?
Thanks!
Have done so. Hope this one reaches you.
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