Regardless of who soldered the cap or the scratch plate's 'spirited' removal, if the cap was correctly soldered, no way would it have been able to separate. With all due respect to your brother, like I said, you can learn how to properly solder in one sitting.

You are correct in this context about what pickup phasing means.

To be perfectly honest with you, I have never heard of Irongear pickups. So, I would need to know the color coding of their coils' leads and if they also have an additional bare wire attached as well in order to properly advise you.

Incidentally, my father's parents are originally from the United Kingdom.

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i apologise if i offended you at all. but i have to say the education system in england is terribly bureucratical [pffft i can't spell] ... tis a good thing they're revising it...
or if not whahey english heritage.. excpet i'm half-japanese... mhm i really ballsed that one up... well as everyone says here to cut off a conversation "LOL"
enough about politics... i'm here for help, not to be a bastard towards people

ahem...
"nm" [yay! more cynical teenage abbreviations]

erm...
yes, i will revise the soldering and make sure everything is 100% secure

also i am having second thoughts about having the bridge with an phase switch as the things will be so close...
i'm not sure...

thinking... thinking...

the bridge pickup

the wiring diagrams i used to work from [i also used info from the web but ima not gonna fetch all that]



i'm very sorry again about the size of the images

ruddy hell that phase diagram is freakin' dwarfed

No problems!

I recommend you verify that none of the components were burned up/out thus far.

Once you've got your soldering skills together and have decided exactly what you want to do with the wiring, we'll have a go at it.

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right then... prepare for more ellipsises, ellipsis' or however the plural is spelt...<look there's one.
my new plan is to ditch the weird "tinned copper wire", i did have the guys i bought the guitar from do it a first time but i discovered mistakes on both parts... that'd be due to me trying to learn too much within a constrained timespan causing some sleep deprivation and lack of brain power etc. etc. etc. the point of this already paragraph long sentence is-it did work, only things went wrong because they cut the wires too long and we ended up with an amass of wires obscuring all view. It was a disaster in my opinion. The second time the only difference is I revised some things and followed the advice of the manufacturer. Armed with this information i can only think that the magic "tinned copper wire" was a bad choice for the grounding [unless i was supposed to melt it like solder but I doubt that.]
I guess the idea was to create some shielding effect or some magic elf summoning thing or better quips than these.
My new plan having, recovered memories through the magic of sleep:
-Bridge Humbucker, Middle Single Coil, Neck Tele-Neck PU for Strat [for twang]
-Master Volume, Bridge Master Tone, Middle/Neck Tone
-Bridge Humbucker Out of Phase with Neck PU [when the Neck is ON, I suppose if it were OFF the result would be the Bridge short circuiting perhaps shorting the entire thing... so I dunno with the Neck OFF the Phase switch becomes a Kill switch<I don't want it to, but it sounds like it could be a by product of the wiring. So... erm... Bridge Outta Phase with Neck, Bridge Single Coil Tap and a Neck ON/OFF switch.
I am currently in the process of refining the diagram as I type.

All my PUs are potted etc. essentially fully protected, but I don't trust my own mind so... I am going to assume the Bridge Humbucker is safe due to the Screened cable-though I'd still like confirmation from an expert[s] with big 10 Yrs Gone belt buckles to symbolise the years of expertise they have under their belt. I have read plenty of recommendations and suggestions for shielding some of them involving foil as shielding i.e:kitchen foil lining
there's also copper tape for the lining and active electronics and so on...
A cheap option would be nice as I wanted to manage a super overhaul of my guitar on a budget of what I could raise from allowances and liquidation of unwanted brick-a-brack.

In short:
All PUs potted and protected according to manufacturer
Do I need to be paranoid or shall I just chill and play the tune instead?

[sounds like dazed & confused doesn't it ?]

PLEASE, just chill and play the tune instead!!!

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I reviewed the whole thread, but I had a rough work week with a few very late evenings (okay early mornings) ... so I may have missed something ...

Are you getting any sound at all???

Did you ground the bridge/trem???

no sound.
it's all grounded correctly.
my brother and I theorize that the strange "tinned copper wire" that i was advised to use may be the problem due to being unsheathed or as I say just useless.

i am revising the circuitry and will get back once i've changed it on the guitar itself.
i am going to change the 1st tone push/pull to put the bridge "outta phase" with the neck. i am going to change the grounding wires to something else
http://axetec.co.uk/axetec%20guitar%20p ... ps_026.htm
perhaps i have used the "tinned copper wire" in one place where i shouldn't...

just clarify exactly what the people on this website mean... i have a problem with severely second guessing myself so...

if all the pickups are potted and everything is anymore shielding required? e.g like a lining for the cavities?

My brother and I have now finished it and it sounds perfect!!! No earth hum , lots of tone to choose from! A bit of playing around and I find I got some nice twangy tones and creamy tones, some nice classic Strat tones... it's got a good range for what it is.

I think I will work on a better diagram, my initial one was done in a way that avoided a confusing myriad of wires all over the picture; I tried to create a sense of minimalism so it'd be super simple. I'll try and keep it super simple and also correct the volume because I did make one mistake... I wired the volume anti-clockwise [so I suppose "up is down and down is up"]

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP!!!

and let us now go for the cliche...

KEEP ON ROCKIN' !!!

Good evening Martian: you are a class act. I like your style!


Hi Randominja: I'm English; I've been through that education system. Permit me to help you with your spelling. It's bureaucratic.

Mine had many faults, no doubt, but as it happens I don't think that was one of them.

Good luck with your wiring; you're in good hands.

Cheers - C