What Did You Do With Your Guitar(s) Today?

[Stone]

Recording part 2 of 5 parts

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Got the five way rotary switch out of my prs case and cleared the old solder out of the holes. Seriously thinking about putting it back to stock with this and the original Dragon IIs. Been listening to a lot of old recordings recently and missing some of those sounds.

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That's the replacement wiring loom and pickups out. Took ages to clean up the original pots, 31 year old me should never have been allowed near a soldering iron cause he had no idea WTF he was doing. I swopped pickups a few times after removing the Dragon IIs and younger me made a right mess of the pots, there was solder everywhere and I even had to straighten the lugs.

The only thing I don't have is the original tone cap but an oversized orange drop will look cooler than the ceramic one prs used anyway.

That's enough for tonight. I'll come back to it later.

 

[Jarick]

Can you link it . I haven’t seen it yet.

Sorry! I meant push pull - will fix my post.

I love the idea of a push push but in reality I barely use it. My CE-24 has been rewired so many times the push pull no longer goes up and down.

The current tone pot is a push pull Alpha so slightly smaller than CTS but that's no big deal I have a reamer and have opened the holes on my other PRS. The volume pot is still going strong though a decade later.

 

[Jarick]

That's the replacement wiring loom and pickups out. Took ages to clean up the original pots, 31 year old me should never have been allowed near a soldering iron cause he had no idea WTF he was doing. I swopped pickups a few times after removing the Dragon IIs and younger me made a right mess of the pots, there was solder everywhere and I even had to straighten the lugs.

The only thing I don't have is the original tone cap but an oversized orange drop will look cooler than the ceramic one prs used anyway.

That's enough for tonight. I'll come back to it later.

I have probably installed pickups hundreds of times in guitars and I still feel like an amateur lol. I've been really taking my time lately instead of rushing through and it's better but I'm so jealous of those guys whose wiring looks like a work of art.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

I have probably installed pickups hundreds of times in guitars and I still feel like an amateur lol. I've been really taking my time lately instead of rushing through and it's better but I'm so jealous of those guys whose wiring looks like a work of art.

My soldering became a lot better after I had built a lot of pedals. The biggest jump came from switching to leaded solder and using flux. Oh and a really good solder sucker to clean up old parts.

 

[megametal7]

i learned solo