Ninjaking67's NGD

I just went back to the page 1 pics. You have one hell of a nice guitar there!! The back is as nice as the front too!!
 
RVA said:
I just went back to the page 1 pics. You have one hell of a nice guitar there!! The back is as nice as the front too!!
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Thanks RVA.
The back is just a veneer though. It looks great but the body is actually made up of 5 different pieces!
 
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ninjaking67 said:
After many a delay and false start, the wiring is finally done:
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That's an interesting approach to running the interconnecting ground wire. Rather than bending a terminal back and soldering it onto the pot casing, and then running a separate, interconnecting ground wire, you threaded the ground wire through the terminals and soldered to the terminal and the casing.

Creative.
 
smitty_p said:
That's an interesting approach to running the interconnecting ground wire. Rather than bending a terminal back and soldering it onto the pot casing, and then running a separate, interconnecting ground wire, you threaded the ground wire through the terminals and soldered to the terminal and the casing.

Creative.
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Yo may also consider soldering an independent wire from lug to the back of the pot and then wiring each ground to that wire separately. In this way, you can easily remove each wire if necessary and you do not have to keep heating the back pf the pot. I have been doing this for a while now and it works great.
 
smitty_p said:
That's an interesting approach to running the interconnecting ground wire. Rather than bending a terminal back and soldering it onto the pot casing, and then running a separate, interconnecting ground wire, you threaded the ground wire through the terminals and soldered to the terminal and the casing.
Creative.
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"Necessity is the mother of invention". If you look back in the thread you will see the pots I initially showed are different than the ones I ended up using. That is because when I soldered the bent back middle terminal on the tone pots I allowed too much solder to flow and it migrated into the vent hole on the pots and f'ed both of them up! I never had the problem before but I had never used 50's wiring before and therefore never had to solder the middle pot terminal to ground on the case.

This was a much easier and risk free solution.
 
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