No probs Mark.
I will post more as I do them - I just hope it give inspiration to some of your students.
I'm sure it will inspire others to have a go themselves - easy once you get started eh?
It also means everything to me - to know that folks like you are out there having success...makes all the hard work worth it!
Measure twice, cut once...
Thanks @TV1010101 they were early on and I haven’t bothered taking pics or vids of a few recent builds. They might be a little better these days but I’m still using oil finishing and waiting for the bailey online finishing course or to go to the bailey workshop to learn as I think that the only think that keeps them from being really nice.
oh and my soldering ....bloody rubbish. I’ve got a really good iron I just hate it. I have improved as I’ve had to. I used to get loads of earthing issues but I don’t anymore..phew.
Thanks for the comments pal.. it means a lot.
I have too many guitars...said no one in the world..ever!
@johnnierox-boo next live stream hopefully we can both get the elephant out of the room.....
@markbailey can you go over how to test for earthing problems in the soldering live stream ??
I have too many guitars...said no one in the world..ever!
I hate soldering too, I always get earthing problems. Ahhhhhhhhhh........
On one of me recent builds, I thought “no way” was I going to get any wiring issues. It was a single p’up, 1 vol, 1 tone, circuit. No switches, no push/pulls. Simple.
Naturally, I wired it up, plugged in, and got a loud buzzing noise.
WTF??
Did a close up visual check on all the joins - all looked fine.
Tried pulling wires out of joints - all were solid.
Re-checked the colour codes on the p’up wires - that was fine.
Hmmmmm ....
Removed the tone pot from the circuit - still buzzing.
Connect the pickup wires direct to the jack - still buzzing.
Some more hmmmmmm ....
Changed the guitar cable - and all was fine.
Arrrghhhhh.
Turns out that the earth connection on one of the cables had come away. Re-soldered that, and all was fine!!
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I remember I did some wiring on a build a while ago and I was getting all the buzzing after checking and rechecking again and again but couldn’t find the problem. I’d had enough at that point and decided to leave it alone and come back to it before I threw it all out of the window. I turned my soldering iron off and the buzzing stopped immediately! It was interference from the soldering iron/station, it’s one of those adjustable ones. £ugger!
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Good cables are imperative..@johnnierox-boo
I have a cable tester and use it often. It was for gigs as mic, speaker and instrument cables where always breaking with the abuse they got..I check cables often ever since..
This is the one I have (6 in 1) and works a treat.
I have too many guitars...said no one in the world..ever!
I think I’ll buy some new guitar cables as well, just to be on the safe side. @TV1010101 @david-johnson09
To be fair to my poor old cable .... it's been sat in the workshop for ages, and hasn't been treated so well!
I need to take a more logical approach to fault diagnosis. And check the easier things first, rather than just assuming that I've missed a solder joint somewhere.
Or buy myself a Deejy gadget
?
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The other alternative @TV1010101
I’ve not tried this but I will...
https://www.fralinpickups.com/2018/11/12/understanding-guitar-grounding/
I have too many guitars...said no one in the world..ever!