Building a Guitar ep19 Guitar Electronics part 4 Soldering continued

[UnclePastel]

Marcão tem como você disponibilizar o diagrama novamente? O link da descrição não está funcionando.

E também poste um vídeo dessa guitar "falando". :D

Otimo trabalho!

Flávio Pástel.

[marcoamf1977]

@UnclePastel Opa! Valeu! Vou postar, finalmente tenho um tempo pra filmar. Vou tentar te mandar o link por DM. abs

[baconbag]

You should post a video of the final product.

[sprojojoing]

19 Episodes of guitar making ... and not a single video of the finished quitar, and how it sounds, and looks. Anyway nice work.

[kyleryan2000]

not gonna lie, i cant see shit in this video

[luisgarciaalanis]

What were you trying to fix by shielding the guitar? and did it work?

[marcoamf1977]

@luisgarciaalanis Shielding the guitar helps make it less noisy and prone to interference. Yes, it worked. The pickups are now really quiet and almost no static sound.

[luisgarciaalanis]

Thanks :) did it make a diff on the humbucker pickup of your guitar?

[marcoamf1977]

Must have! I never heard this humbucker

before (just bought it for this guitar).

But single coil sounds pretty quiet,

compared to by other guitar (3 SC).

[icannotfalter]

ok, heres my issue, i have a shechter daimond series bass guitar, and it needs its jack fixed/replaced, i have the jack it came with,however, it is completeley detached from the three wires, one green, two black howeever, the black wires are indescernable (spelled right?). so, how would i know the difference? i have a soldering kit,wire, and am familliar with soldering, all i need to know is which wires go where? please respond.

[marcoamf1977]

Hard to say without a diagram. Tipically, black is ground and you should solder to the sleeve. Green should be hot and solder to the tip.

My guess is that you should join both blacks together or one of them should be attached to some ground mass (on guitars we usually have a ground attached to the spring claw).

Where do the wires come from (each one)?

[icannotfalter]

they all come from the small circuit board close to where the output jack is supposed to be, the green one and one of the black ones are side-by-side but the other black one is of on it's own. where can i find a diagram? can you define "tip", "sleeve", "hot", and (did know but forgot) "grounded"? so i should join the two black ones? how? please respond.

[marcoamf1977]

I couldnt find diagram for diamond, but google "schecter diamond bass diagram" and a couple of diagrams appear. These ones have a 2-band EQ, which might be the circuit board you mention. If this is the case, you prob have a 9v battery, which will also need a ground for it. Then you need a 3 'point' jack.

Tip is the part of the jack that will have contact with the tip of the P10 plug (your cable). sleeve is the part that has contact with the side. 3-point has also a ring, where battery gnd goes.

[marcoamf1977]

Putting it simply: Hot is the wire that comes through the path from the pickups, going through the pots all the way to the jack. This is what your amp will use, where the signal is coming from. But the signal needs to comes back through ground, the "returning path for electrical current".Usually it's thicker wires, soldered to the casing of the pots and to spring claws, the bridge, etc.

If hot and ground are directly in contact, then you "short" your circuit.

[xxcowslayerxxx]

shorting your circut only means that it stops working until you take them apart again right?

[marcoamf1977]

yes, but I guess you might damage the circuit if you put stronger signal to it. Or damage the amp if you plug the short-circuit system to it (or at least hear some really loud blows when you plug).

[djematrix]

well what happened to the end ...?

[recrda]

when are we going to hear the guitar???

i'm so curious hearing it!!

[jdiuurdfsds]

thanks for sharing!

[kenedy626]

There is a preview on YouTube A Complete Custom Electrick Guitar.Check it out.

[jpsguitarguy]

i was working on my guitar with spring tension. i accidentally stripped of some of the rubber shielding of the ground wire because the wire got caught in the claw screw. . i know i didn't cut any wires, but if i did, can it get fixed?

[marcoamf1977]

Sure, you can replace the whole piece of wire. Or you can just cover the place with insulation tape. OR, you can just leave it the way it is - since it's ground, no worries if it touches any metal parts. Just be careful for it not to touch any hot wires (usually the color ones).

You may also cut the wire at that place and solder it again to a groung part (like the spring claw).

[chrisallmon]

thanks so much for these videos .you have helped me understand alot of things like setting the neck. i now can do this myselfe,and save some money! when are we going to hear the guitar? been wanting to see it also.

[marcoamf1977]

Soon enough! The guitar is really sounding nice! just didn't have the mood to set the camera, record and edit. thanks for watching!

[d0wnwithgravity]

that is sweet - post us a video of it playing

PS im also making a guitar, been at it for 6 months

[marcoamf1977]

I've tested now and it's WORKING!!! I'm glad my guitar project is almost complete.

First time I tested and I got the stragest sound, and not working properly. Restudied the electronics and even opened up the guitar again and resoldered some things.

Again, not working! So I've decided to test my AMP with my other guitar and BANG! IT WAS THE AMP. Now I gotta fix it.

I could do some testing holding some buttons down and the guitar is sounding nice!

[unklebill]

dude, sorry about that 1 star, I snuck in a double vote for 5, i clicked my mouse to bring my computer out of the screensaver and that's where it was, the series is awesome, I was watching it while I was rewiring one of my guitars.