Thread: Gah, wiring
Forum: Guitar Tech
Author: HonestIain
HonestIain - 6/17/2008 at 19:00

I have a pretty cool guitar I picked up from a buddy. It's a vintage strat copy from the 70's or 80's. It's made by a company called MAIN, I've never heard of them and I can't seem to find any information on them on the internet.

Anyway, the guitar was pretty interesting. It had three pickups, a humbucker in the neck and middle position and a single coil in the bridge (??!?!). It had one volume knob and 5 toggle switches to change the tone (one of them was broken though). It also had a three way selector switch, and by the look of it, it seemed to have two more knobs that had been taken out. The input jack was also pretty sketchy.

Since recieving the guitar I have taken out everything I deemed unnecessary (All the stupid tone knobs and the middle pickup). I'd like to re-wire the guitar so that the three way selector switch can be toggled to "neck - off or ground - bridge."

I have no experience wiring guitars. In fact my experience with electricity and equipment has usually ended in tragedy (I've fried mixers and combo amps etc.). I'd really like to do this project by myself. But in my research in guitar wiring info on the internet I couldn't find anything that really helped me.


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