LP Tribute refinish, take 2...

I put the Wolfetone back in the bridge, neck pickup is a dummy for now, I don't have a double black neck pickup I like enough to wire up.

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I just couldn't deal with the zebras in black rings, IMO they don't look right in black rings. I like the Wolfetone well enough, it's my second favorite pickup. And this allowed me to put my favorite knobs back on it. I'll get a neck pickup eventually, but I'm in no hurry, other than my Tele I barely use a neck pickup anyway.
 
I'm pretty sure I talked about this here before. Do any of y'all remember me talking about this guitar being cursed before?? I said I've rewired it countless times and it'll play for a while and then it just dies? Well, I was playing it last night after I swapped the pickups and it was fine, I put it away and haven't touched it until just now and guess what?....it's dead as a door nail. The curse lives on. :BH:

I think this is the last straw, I'm tired of stressing over this guitar..I think it's time to just get rid of it and chalk it up to experience. I'll get it working again, I always do, then I'll just take it up to GC and take whatever they'll give me for it before it dies again. Maybe someone else will have better luck with it.
 
CoyotesGator said:
I had a jack in a Telecaster that would do that just often enough to drive me nuts.
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It's not one thing, I've completely rewired this guitar many times with all new components and wires and something always dies after just a short time. This time I do suspect the jack because when I wiggled the wired to the jack it went from silent to a hiss. I'll work on it after I get over being pissed at it.
 
It's a bad volume pot. And that's not on RS, I forgot that I swapped the volume pot for a 330k, I didn't think I did that on this one. I put a 330k volume pot on all my bridge volumes, but I seriously don't even remember doing it on this one. That's how bad my anxiety was at the time I wired it, I forget things that happen when it's going on.

Anyway, I've been using Guitarfetish for my 330k pots forever, but they have gone to shit lately. I guess I'm going to have to make my own. I have a good CTS pot that I modified from 500k to 400k, I also forgot all about that. I'll swap it for that one as soon as I locate it.

Right now I just jumpered the bridge pickup to the neck volume and have been playing it. Maybe I'm not giving up on it just yet. Hope y'all know I was just venting last night. :victoire: I just couldn't believe it died after one jam.
 
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I'm just going to babble for a minute since this is my thread. :)

So when I put the new pot in and got it working again I realized that it sounded much better when I had the bridge pickup jumpered over to the neck volume pot when my bridge volume died. For years I've ALWAYS preferred a 330k bridge volume over 500k on all my guitars, including this one, but for some reason something about the pickup or the RS pots or something new with the set up, I don't know what... it turns out this guitar with the Wolfetone Timbre Wolf sounds much better with a 500k pot, which isn't actually 500k, I measured it at 441k so there's that :lol: but whatever it is what it is and I'm rolling with it.

So I wired the pickup back up to the neck volume and tone the other day, removed the switch, replaced it with my bullet casing and I also removed the bridge half of the wiring harness to use somewhere else down the road because I have decided this one only gets a bridge pickup as I originally intended. I'm going to do something creative to put in the neck pickup rout like I talked about before (I'm already working on it) and I'm on the hunt for some bullet casings to plug the spare control holes. The only reason I haven't removed the dummy neck pickup yet is because I'm not sure these strings can take another loosening and tightening and I don't want to deal with breaking in new strings just yet. lol

You might be surprised how much weight the extra components add. I really like the lighter feel and I don't need a neck pickup on this...it's my beater and I lost sight of that.

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CoyotesGator said:
What size do you need?
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Well, I'm not sure. 9mm fits pretty well as far as the hole size, it's a little loose, not too much that I can't work with it, but they don't have a lip on the rim that's wider than the casing so there's nothing to keep them from falling thru the hole. The casing Larry sent me for the switch hole has a lip on the rim that's it's wider than the casing so it doesn't fall through the hole. Does that make sense?

I can probably make a 9mm work, I'll have to put an o-ring on the groove under the rim to keep it from falling through the hole, that's doable and might even look better. :hmmm: I also use o-rings on the back side to hold it in place, I use 2 of them stacked to keep the first one from sliding back after I flatten the casing some to give it a bit of a oval shape to keep the o-rings fro sliding back up.

I can draw a picture if any of that doesn't compute, lol.
 
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DirtySteve said:
Well, I'm not sure. 9mm fits pretty well as far as the hole size, it's a little loose, not too much that I can't work with it, but they don't have a lip on the rim that's wider than the casing so there's nothing to keep them from falling thru the hole. The casing Larry sent me for the switch hole has a lip on the rim that's it's wider than the casing so it doesn't fall through the hole. Does that make sense?

I can probably make a 9mm work, I'll have to put an o-ring on the groove under the rim to keep it from falling through the hole, that's doable and might even look better. :hmmm: I also use o-rings on the back side to hold it in place, I use 2 of them stacked to keep the first one from sliding back after I flatten the casing some to give it a bit of a oval shape to keep the o-rings fro sliding back up.

I can draw a picture if any of that doesn't compute, lol.
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I think I have what you need. PM me your address and I will send you a couple to choose from.
 
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