Ever have one of those...?

Metal, I read this while googling,

EMG's have an internal opamp that is usually bulletproof, but can fail. If you have a spare 1/4 inch jack, hardwire the pickup to it, plug in a cable (a good one!) and see if you get a strong signal. A luthier would put it on a meter to see if it was getting good signal, but in lieu of the meter, that should work.
Best of luck my friend!
 
I overslept (damn graveyard shifts.) so I didn't really mess with the guitar today. so as far as the jack goes, the other day I attempted to removie the jack from the body of the guitar while still leaving it connected to the internals to see if the paint was affecting it, and same result no sound. the connections aren't touching the paint either. Give me a few moments and i'll do my best to get some detailed pics.
 
Thanks, Metal. Let me pull em up and see what I can see. PS, Where do u live?

OK, Well, from those pics, I can't see anything obvious. I'd be inclined to get my test meter out and go through various checks and see what readings I get.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Thanks, Metal. Let me pull em up and see what I can see. PS, Where do u live?

OK, Well, from those pics, I can't see anything obvious. I'd be inclined to get my test meter out and go through various checks and see what readings I get.
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Houston Texas. Emg got back to me and asked for pics, so I sent them pics, they said that the input on the tone is upside down. I didn’t get a chance to try and correct it today because dealing with a collection agency but it would be weird that it worked fine and then nothing, so I’m thinking I put it upside down so what I’m going to do is send a video of me correcting the issue. Plugging it in, showing amp is on, and then trying to produce some sort of sound. Then send it to them.
 
Metal89 said:
Houston Texas. Emg got back to me and asked for pics, so I sent them pics, they said that the input on the tone is upside down. I didn’t get a chance to try and correct it today because dealing with a collection agency but it would be weird that it worked fine and then nothing, so I’m thinking I put it upside down so what I’m going to do is send a video of me correcting the issue. Plugging it in, showing amp is on, and then trying to produce some sort of sound. Then send it to them.
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Damm brother when I was a truck driver, I had a weekly run to Huston for about a year.
Used to fuel up at the 76 truck stop off of I10 in Brookshire, met some really cool people out there!
Cheers Mitch
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Ghostwolf is in TX somewhere. Maybe PM him. Bro
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Perhaps but with the very recent curveball I’ve been thrown, I can’t afford to compensate someone for their time at the moment. Tomorrow I’m going to give the suggestion from EMG a try. I know I’m extremely tired when I come home from work so just maybe the last time I opened her up before she went out I had accidentally tugged too hard on the input of the tone pot, plugged it in inside out, could of been the first wire I replaced that connects from the volume pot to the jack and then I accidentally flipped the input around. Who knows.

I’m constantly on I10 Mitch! And really if you can get past the humidity, Texas is pretty nice... aside from a certain apartment complex which is now currently on my permanent poo list.
 
Metal89 said:
Perhaps but with the very recent curveball I’ve been thrown, I can’t afford to compensate someone for their time at the moment. Tomorrow I’m going to give the suggestion from EMG a try. I know I’m extremely tired when I come home from work so just maybe the last time I opened her up before she went out I had accidentally tugged too hard on the input of the tone pot, plugged it in inside out, could of been the first wire I replaced that connects from the volume pot to the jack and then I accidentally flipped the input around. Who knows.

I’m constantly on I10 Mitch! And really if you can get past the humidity, Texas is pretty nice... aside from a certain apartment complex which is now currently on my permanent poo list.
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One more memorable stops I had
was at the Piggly Wiggley giant complex, and we had pharmaceuticals.
They where not on 4way pallets and we had to break down the load onto new 4 way pallets, listerine toothpaste, tylonal, doans pills, aspirin, ect, ect, it took us all damm day, in August talk about humidity!!!
We were drenched.
Cheers Mitch
 
Mitch Pearrow SJMP said:
One more memorable stops I had
was at the Piggly Wiggley giant complex, and we had pharmaceuticals.
They where not on 4way pallets and we had to break down the load onto new 4 way pallets, listerine toothpaste, tylonal, doans pills, aspirin, ect, ect, it took us all damm day, in August talk about humidity!!!
We were drenched.
Cheers Mitch
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Oh I bet! Humidity is a literal killer here! If the AC in your car goes out, you are in for a world of hurt, especially combined with Houston traffic.

I had a 2014 Nissan Versa and the blower motor went out... which was installed behind the gauge cluster. After a month I traded it in for another car because F that!!!
 
Metal89 said:
Oh I bet! Humidity is a literal killer here! If the AC in your car goes out, you are in for a world of hurt, especially combined with Houston traffic.

I had a 2014 Nissan Versa and the blower motor went out... which was installed behind the gauge cluster. After a month I traded it in for another car because F that!!!
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I was always in a 1973 Kenworth, no ac, and I drove the nights, never could get much sleep
 
I can’t remember the loop number by motel we used to get, but it was central Houston near the interstate that went north to Dallas.
Went out drinking one night at a club and gatherd up a pair of fine looking young ladies, was later told they were models
 
I mean there are only two pots, a switch, and a buss circuit! I’ve worked on and installed security systems that by every account is more complicated than this. Yet this is putting me through hell and back mentally trying to figure it out LOL!!!
 
Mitch Pearrow SJMP said:
I can’t remember the loop number by motel we used to get, but it was central Houston near the interstate that went north to Dallas.
Went out drinking one night at a club and gatherd up a pair of fine looking young ladies, was later told they were models
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Yup, models, we (I can’t remember his name but he is a famous baseball player) had the million dollar man frequent a hunting store I pulled security for, celebrities often go through here. I myself try to avoid downtown Houston. That area is a maze. Without a gps you’ll be going around in circles just trying to get back on 45.
 
Metal89 said:
Yup, models, we (I can’t remember his name but he is a famous baseball player) had the million dollar man frequent a hunting store I pulled security for, celebrities often go through here. I myself try to avoid downtown Houston. That area is a maze. Without a gps you’ll be going around in circles just trying to get back on 45.
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My last trip down there would have been 1980
 
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