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agent.umbra

@danfairs #GuitarTech here. Yeah poor QC is pretty normal for Fender. Their quality has been declining steadily for decades. I've worked on a million Fenders of all types and years and I would never buy one for myself. This isn't to criticize anyone who has one, anyone who likes them, or anybody who has one that isn't poorly made (or perhaps theirs has been fixed), but there's so many shortcuts they take in manufacturing and so many QC issues that I wouldn't spend my money on one.

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agent.umbra

I'm a #guitartech, I've worked under many people, worked for Guitar Center, and had my own shop for a time. I still do it on the side these days & I'm always happy to give advice. I've worked on everything with strings that isn't a classical instrument.
#guitar #bass #classicalguitar #acousticguitar #banjo #mandolin #bouzouki

I #DIY a lot because I often find cookie cutter or off the shelf solutions to be lacking. I'm often seen making or modifying some thing to better fit my use cases.

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agent.umbra

I bought this guitar back in 2021 and finally got around to doing some work on it. I've had trouble with the pickups ever since it was new, but haven't really played the guitar much, so it sat largely untouched. I've been playing it a lot recently and still have problems so I decided to rewire it to eliminate that as a possible issue. Spoiler: the wiring ain't the issue here. I have yet another defective Fishman pickup.

Guitar nerd specs in the replies:

Control cavity detail of an electric guitar. It features 3 main components, a box switch, and 2 push/pull potentiometers. On the left is the switch, the volume pot is above it just off center to the right, and the tone control is seen on the far right. An orange, square-ish .022 micro farad capacitor is seen coming off the tone control. A series of colored, twisted pair wires connects them all together into a circuit. The back of the guitar has a matte black finish. The background is black fabric.
Zoomed out detail of the same control cavity from the previous image. This picture features a pile of colored wires next to the guitar body. These wires were part of the stock wiring job and were all trimmed as the length was unnecessary and created a "rats nest" in the cavity. A 9 volt battery door can be seen to the left of the control cavity.
Image of the same control cavity before rewiring. All of the controls and wires have been pulled out of the guitar and are strewn everywhere. Lots of long, colored wires are seen connecting the electronics together. All of this mess used to be stuffed inside the small cavity. A soldering iron set to 703 degrees F can be seen in the top right of the image. Next to it is a brass sponge for cleaning the iron tip.
Image of a 7 string, multiscale (fanned fret) Cort electric guitar. The body shape is very traditional, and features a burl top. It is green, with an outline of purple around the edges. The pickups and frets are all angled, due to the nature of a multiscale instrument. The electronics feature 2 knobs and one switch. One volume, one tone, and one pickup selector switch. 7 individual string bridges truncate the string terminations.
#guitar#multiscale#guitartech
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ZoeOeoZ

Just finished fixing this bad boy. 40 years old and a bridge hook broke. Amazingly they still make parts! Thank you Whammy Parts in Reno, NV. It is the tremolo on my very first guitar I bought when I was 16. A Fender Bullet that has been heavily modded and repainted multiple times. An amazing workhorse of a guitar for so many years. It broke over a decade ago and I am just now fixing and restoring it. Because life. #kahler #guitar #guitartech

1980s Gold Kahler guitar tremolo from my youth. Newly repaired and polished.
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Riroriro :comfy:

Wiped a bit of the excess wax off the top, wrapped in cloth tape, and here we are. Moon shaped gouge in the Wilkinson bobbin, not sure when that appeared.

This combination quite a bit shorter than the reverse combination, part of the difference is in the protruding slugs, bobbins different heights too. DCR is 9K3, other was 9K6.

Haven't got a home for it at the moment, but happy it can go back in junk box as a complete pickup, not separate coils etc.

#GuitarPickup
#GuitarTech

A humbucker guitar pickup closeup at an angle.
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Riroriro :comfy:

Bordering on visible that one bobbin has a bit more wire wrapped around it.

There are two possible ways to connect this up, one will hum, one will not. I don't know the internal inter-bobbin colour code of either manufacturer. If I used my noggin, I could look at the other hybrid pickup and deduce the order, perhaps I'll do that.

#GuitarPickup
#GuitarTech

End of a humbucker pickup, the individual bobbin/coil terminating wires are floating in the breeze, awaiting connection.
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INPC

N00b guitar pedal question.

I'm trying to find a tone I like (obvs this come from fingers first) anyway, I think I'm after some drive but I don't want to sound like an 80s hair metal person.

I guess a little bluesy break up, I only started guitar a year ago..

Any thoughts welcome. Although not super expensive stuff. I don't have an amp. I use an MXR phaser and Boss Space echo into the computer. Still searching for the right amp sim. #Guitar #MusicProduction #GuitarTech

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Riroriro :comfy:

Picking up another little guitar job, as waiting for glue.

Really time something happened to these parts, got a neck sitting on a body, bridge never installed, never had strings.

I'd spent quite some time previously getting the bridge post bushing holes in correct location, but needed to recess everything into the body before bushings could go in.

Front edge of recess isn't going to change, and that fence was for final cut, but rest depended on bridge.

#GuitarTech
#GuitarRepair

Fence set up for router to follow, on top of guitar body, ready to begin cutting out Floyd Rose recess.
Setting depth of cut, caliper visible next to router bit.
Setting depth of cut, caliper visible next to router bit, showing cut will be about 7mm deep.
Rough cut in top of guitar to accommodate Floyd Rose, 7mm depth, cut along fence is final, the rest is free hand, just to get the bridge installed, then make more precise measurements around the bridge.
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Comfortably Glum

#Introduction I am a polymath of sorts, although I suppose a more colloquial description might be jack-of-all-trades.

I am an English major, with an MBA who has spent most of his career in Information Technology and Industrial Engineering / Automation. Go figure.

I have always loved music, including #rock, #progrock, #progmetal, the occasional Country song, and large helping of #80smusic.

I play #guitar as a hobby and am an occasional #guitartech.

I was an avid #runner and Boston marathoner. But have been largely sidelined by PMR that has mostly left me, but didn’t seem to leave most of me. C’est la vie.

I am a long time #linux and #macos user. And with retirement in site, I am anxious to get back to some programming. Probably #swift, but honestly, I have rarely met a language I didn’t like.

I seem to have an affinity for #cats and there doesn’t appear to be anything for it.

So, well. I’m happy to be here…

[edit] Oh wait, forgot to mention sometime poet.

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