Greetings folks,
Not a query or a work-in-progress, but a minor whinge about some fault finding I did last night on my latest build (a 3 x mini-humbucker affair I am building with my youngest, Isaac). For some reason the resistance between output and ground was dropping when I turned one of the two tone pots. I spent the best part of 1hr30mins looking at the wiring, testing resistances and mV on the pickups, poring over the 5-way switch. Narrowed it down to *something* around the pot itself, and eventually realised I had attached the common ground wire (on back of pots) to the wrong side of the tone capacitor. Doh! and Eureka! simultaneously.
An easy fix which meant I could get to bed around 2 am after a couple of 12-hr shifts
Output socket to wire up, strings and various screws to be attached tonight hopefully, and the open A chord beckons!
Rant over
Adam
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Clearer heads should have prevailed