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New Fretless Four String Guitar ... well not new, and not a guitar but hey! This belonged to my wife's grandmother as a child so it dates back to 1910's It would have been a very basic instrument though it is full size. No cracks so I'll be cleaning it up and re-stringing it and it will...

So in preparation for building a new wiring harness for my Ibanez Artcore hollow body I decided to check the circuit I would use before starting the soldering. All the controls laid out on a board on the desk, connect up using croc clip jumpers and finally hook up pickups to input on pots. LOTS...

So having partially restored my Epi Les Paul (https://www.strat-talk.com/threads/unexpected-ngd-epiphone-les-paul.563898/#post-4301858) I decided to get the electrics in a better shape. The original pickups had been replaced by those from a 2004 Ibanez SZ something or other. First thing I...

So a friend's son was throwing this in the bin but was persuaded to ask me if I could fix it. Needs new bridge and tailpiece and the electrics are a bit of a mess. Nut is broken too. In the end he said I could have it for £20 so here it is: 2003 Korean made Les Paul Standard PlusTop in a "blue...

So continuing my alternative control wiring saga I decided to re-solder a new wire from tremolo plate directly to output jack ground. This means only 2 wires to solder when swapping my pickguards. The 30 yr old very thin wire from the tremolo plate to ground on volume pot had clearly been...

Ibanez 2453 Howard Roberts ca 1975/6

So as lockdown boredom gets the better of me I decided to try out a couple of different wiring options on my strat. To start with it had its original wiring of 5-way switch with T1 for Neck, T2 for Middle and none for bridge. Both Tone controls active in pos 4 (neck and middle). What I wanted...

... I bought my first strat: It's a 1989 Japanese Standard Strat serial number I000067 Candy Apple Red and the controls/covers are naturally aged from the original bright white. £239 in the UK. I went in to buy a US model and came out with this as it felt and sounded so much nicer and I...