Neck - whatever came with the body, will switch out for a genuine Fender when I have the money
wiring - Gibsonish style, one tone and volume for each pickup
How retarded is this? Should I switch any pickups around or consider alternatives? Is the wiring a bad idea for any reason? do I need toggle switches for each individual pickup or will just volume do? I'm a tard at this obviously, but I'm eager to get my hands dirty, and I'm expecting to make mistakes, but hoping to get it as close to right as possible the first time around.
>How retarded is this? wiring is the most retarded part. 1 vol and 1 tone per PU? The fuck you end up with 6 pots? No shit NO Use the stratocaster wiring if you're mounting 3 PUs. Consider LP wiring only if you mount 2 PUs. Pickups are a bit weird. You are putting a PAF at neck, a single coil and a single coil sized humbucker. MMMMMHH Strats with humbuckers usually come in HH, SSH or HSH configuration. You are opting for a HSS, and uhm Idk about that. You could buy a body routed for HSH and experiment anyway, you'll only have to change the pickguard.
Christian Brown
This is extremely retarded. It's going to sound like shit anyway, so you'd do just as well to use coil-split 'buckers.
Jonathan Williams
have you considered just buying a guitar
Josiah Jenkins
you will fuck it up. believe me if you get the parts and send them to someone who knows, maybe but still, you will waste money.
get a cheap squier and upgrade it with kits. you will learn without fucking everything up
Adrian King
Go back to the kaka general!
Lucas Foster
Why are you spamming the guitar general with this shit?
Noah Scott
The reason I wanted to go with gibson wiring is because you get much more comprehensive control of the tone. I know it'll look retarded with a shitton of knobs, but that's ok, not really concerned with how it looks. Is the amount of pots going to significantly affect the tone as well? because if that's the case then I'll probably go with Fender wiring. Also I'm mounting all 4 pickups, not just 3. And the body I have is swimming pool routed, so it will accommodate whatever pickup configuration.
What part am I most likely to fuck up. The wiring? The scale length? Cutting the pickguard?
I'm not spamming. This is my second time posting the thread, and only because the first got literally 0 replies, and I really do want to get more experienced opinions on this.
Robert Sullivan
Ok just realized why you said this
the wangcaster is not me, the first thread I posted yesterday
Aiden Perry
you don't need a guitar with 4 pickups. Also putting expensive pickups in a cheap body is a bad idea
Austin Watson
even if you make it right it is quite possible that will sound awful at this point it's a waste of time and money. but if that isn't stopping you here's a site with diy kits: solomusicgear.com you can get one and upgrade it with your hardware
Sebastian Gonzalez
and here you can get solderless systems. almost impossible to fuck it up obsidianwire.com
if you're up to, good luck user
Kevin Lee
You make a good point, I might remove the one single coil but I do kind of want to keep some of that signature "clarity".
Thank you, the solderless systems look really useful, I'll definitely check them out.
Also is there any way I can minimize the chance of it sounding like shit, or does that just happen sometimes?
Brandon Miller
the sound is a combination of things. for example pick up position 2 and 4 on a strat are usually noise cancelling. if your connection isn't correct you will get the noise anyway and probably more of it.
Robert Morris
But if I get it wrong, isn't that something I can just fix by opening up the guitar and resoldering the connection properly?
Kevin Cox
that's where the solderless system works. easy to rewire things if you mess them up
if you are going for something new get ready for 'try and error' a lot
Charles Baker
yeah, I'm prepared for the trial and error of it all. And is there still any non-cosmetic or non effort-related reason to go with the batshit insane gibson wiring for 3-4 pickups?
Christopher Green
it's just a lot of shit. how will you select the pickups? humbuckers? split them into single coils? etc etc
for that you will need to create your own wire system and that can be a pain in the ass.. some capacitors will have to be added.
Bentley Campbell
I'm thinking about using push-pull pots to coil split, and maybe just generic toggle switches to turn pickups on/off, kind of like the pickup selection on those vintage japanese guitars with 4 pickups, but with humbuckers as well. How would I determine what kind of capacitor to add, is it purely about tone?
Blake Clark
ooh i see. i guess there are some teisco or univox diagrams on the internet to start from there.
honestly i don't see a point on 4 humbuckers. maybe if you go for a baritone guitar with the length of a bass lol. sounds sick
I do want to make/get a baritone at some point, but probably not yet. Mostly building this for the sake of having a fuck-you high output guitar, and keeping the one single coil there for a shred of sanity. But yeah the japanese wiring diagrams are likely a good place to start.
