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Post by lickosaurus on Jan 19, 2018 9:05:42 GMT
So here is a ST Kit that is finally starting to take shape. I went a bit overboard with changing out the parts and basically only the body and the neck will be from the kit. The three way switch, CTS pots and Donlis pickups installed into the pickguard My soldering skills are not the best, the guitar is wired like a tele with a blend pot for the middle pickup Test fitting, the color shifts quite drastically based on the viewing angle. I was going for a Ocean Turquoise color and ordered a phtalo blue stain and a small bottle of green pigments from crimson. I mixed the stain with trial and error on a few pieces of scrap. The look was achieved by fully saturating the sides of the body and then sanding the top and bottom down, leaving a nice clean edge. I then stained it once again and finished the guitar with guitar finishing oil from crimson.
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Post by tarn on Jan 20, 2018 11:03:23 GMT
try to avoid to much grounding point, this to avoid a grounding loop. which can sometimes give al kind of parasite noise. plus each time you take the risk of getting a bad connection(cold solder) and each time you heat up the back to the pot you risk of damaging it also. it should look a bit more like this. going with the same ground from pot to pot adding the cap in at the same time. the double wiring on the selector has no use. wind the 3 groundings form the pick ups together and ad them to the same grounding point. and then go from that one point to the jack out. keep up the good work
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2018 13:10:06 GMT
I know its cheaper to do the soldering my self but because I usually burn my fingers and make huge mess of things like cold solder I prefer to pay 60 UK for a solder-less prewired harness of my choice (7 way, etc).
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Post by lickosaurus on May 10, 2018 22:11:04 GMT
status of affairs: got some alnico pickups and harness from this Jack & Danny ST Vintage Surf Green : Music Store St Vintage. Installed the pickup and harness in my HB kit guitar: Buffed the pickguard and installed the pickups and harness from the kit guitar to the J&D guitar, any improvements to be made?
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Post by lickosaurus on May 11, 2018 1:46:05 GMT
glad that you asked, the pickups in the first photo are Chinese alnico pickups ordered from ali express. The picture in my most recent post is of an Jack &Danny guitar I ordered in March from Musicstore.de. I just switched these pickups. Let me quote musicstore.de: "anscheinend hat unser Lieferant ohne Vorankündigung die verwendeten Pickups geändert. Leider können wir Ihnen keine Nachlieferung der gewünschten Pickups anbieten, möchten Ihnen stattdessen jedoch einen Nachlass in Höhe von 15€ anbieten." (Apparently, our supplier has changed without notice the used pickups. Unfortunately, we can not offer you a delivery of the desired pickups, but instead we would like to offer you a discount of 15 €.)
but in a in a second email they stated: "laut Aussage unserer Gitarrenwerkstatt sind auch Alnico-Magnete als Barrenmagneten erhältlich, so dass sich allein anhand der Form keine Rückschlüsse über die verwendeten Materialien treffen lassen. Leider können wir Ihnen keinen weiteren Preisnachlass anbieten, jedoch eine kostenlose Rücksendung."
(According to our guitar workshop, Alnico magnets are also available as bar magnets, so that it is not possible to draw any conclusions about the materials used based solely on the shape of the magnets.)
Well, they probably have a warehouse full of these guitars so it should be easy enough for them to verify this themselves. The specs on their website still havent changed. I simply replied by asking if I could sell the pickups on as genuine Wilkinson alnico pickups referencing their correspondence, which I intend to do. But to be honest, it really isnt worth my time arguing about the pickups of a ca. 100 EUR otherwise nice guitar.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2018 5:31:10 GMT
Alnico bar is SILVER in color NOT Black (Ceramic) they are selling horse s h i t with that statement.
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Post by oghkhood on May 12, 2018 11:21:35 GMT
wow, without the will of offending you, your solderings are really ugly, and frankly, you can expect the ones on the pots to fail one day or another. But this is a simple job to do so I do not think you are missing skills to do that ok. What I thing is rather that the iron you are using is not fit to what you are doing. Sorry I can't help you anymore because I am not that "skilled" myself. But I advise you to go to an electronics shop, and ask fot a tool more adapted to your needs.
In the end, THE secrets of a good soldering :
- the iron is here to bring the part to the good temp. This is the part's heat that must bring the solder to melt, never the iron itself. For this reason reason, you must first melt solder on the end of the wire, then solder the wire to the part, and eventually add a little more solder
- 1 ) Melt some solder on the pot ( must be flat, NOT in drop shape ! ) ; 2) let the pot cool down a little ; 3) solder the wires
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Post by oghkhood on May 12, 2018 11:36:17 GMT
Mine is only 25w ....
Maybe there is trick with iron quality. As said above, I got mine in an electronics shop, and I explained what I wanted to the keeper.... looks like he sold me exactly what I needed. And not really more expensive
I was a bit sceptic because 25w was far weaker than my previous tool, but I got convinced since the first time I used it. This one is ok for both guitars soldering and effect electronics.
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Post by oghkhood on May 12, 2018 11:48:11 GMT
Model is JBC 40S = 26W This one :
Discontinued, as it seems ...
The 30S is equivalent and available for 33.99€ in France
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