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  • ThePrettyDamnedThePrettyDamned Frets: 7560
    WTF WORK!
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  • ThePrettyDamnedThePrettyDamned Frets: 7560
    Okay, hopefully the pictures are clear, ish. The top two pots are a volume and tone for the single coils, and the output goes to the three way toggle in the corner. Then the bottom pot is a single volume pot for the humbucker, it is grounded to the others by an extra wire because the humbucker wire was too short to be super tidily shield grounded to it... 

    Overall, the wiring is about as tidy as I can manage. It's a pretty complex circuit as far as my level of wiring goes! The bridge vibrato is grounded to the humbucker pot, and another wire connects this pot to the ground lug of the output jack. The red wire running from the output of the switchcraft toggle connects to the tip lug. 

    Any glaringly obvious errors? I don't get why the neck position of the switch would give the middle pickup, and vice versa...
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  • ThePrettyDamnedThePrettyDamned Frets: 7560
    More information.

    When set in the middle position of the blade switch (with the toggle choosing the single coils only), if I have the toggle in the upper position (neck!), touching the lug for the middle makes a noise, neck is silent. Vice versa is true in the bottom position.

    In the middle, both are SILENT and the lugs I've linked with black wire all make a sound when touched. I'm wondering if this means I've wired the switch backwards and it's not symmetrical? It didn't match the Duncan wiring diagram in terms of the lugs, where the top one on the right was lower than the top one on the left. If that makes sense... :s

    I've used tape to insulate against the shielding paint for both switches. The fact I'm getting noise from the switch tells me the pots are wired okay I think, so it's probably a switch problem.
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  • ThePrettyDamnedThePrettyDamned Frets: 7560
    Done! It's set up moderately okay, though the intonation will need a bit more work and it's hardly set up as well as my strat but... Whatever man! It sounds the balls.  I didn't quite put enough shim in the neck to get it shred low, but it's pretty low up until the 12th fret where it starts getting a bit high for my tastes.  Playable up at the dusty end though!

    <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/aguywitholdcameras/17409370970" title="IMG_20150513_122604 by Paul Allum, on Flickr"><img src="https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7727/17409370970_b68f52ae45_z.jpg" width="480" height="640" alt="IMG_20150513_122604"></a>

    Sounds brilliant.  Despite strat and gretsch style pickups, it sounds very little like my strat - the tone is a bit warmer and softer on the hit, and a bit more 'plinky plonky' in comparison thanks to that shallow break angle.  Perfect! 

    It has the bridge set pretty low and the saddles raised high. This means I can pretty well mash the strings and bend them without them popping out (they're only 10s, I might switch up to 11s but tuning stability is currently very good indeed) and the trem is set to float so I can get semitone raises on the B string. I may lock it back down again, but to be honest it has a wonderful action to it. 

    Best trem system around. And mine is a cheap import part from an eBay store and an allparts jazzmaster bridge. 
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