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Andy,

Great work. I can't wait to see this beauty with all the layer of finish! A friend of mine has been following the exploits of the build threads on the forum and has elected to order a unfinished mahogany strat body with the intent to produce an oil-style finish such as the one you've created here.

Along side the other fine craftsmens at this site, you sir are an inspiration!

Kozy :D

Hi Kozy!

Thanks man. :oops:

Sweet! Make sure your friend takes the time to prep his body as the rest is easy! Oooh and get him to post some pics! :D

Forum user Impulse7 has a really nice self made mahogany strat with an oil finish that looks great! Impulse, if your reading this would you be able to post a few pics for us?

Thanks again Kozy mate!

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I'll be back in a few hours with the first part of the wiring update for ya. Should be a good'un! :D


can't wait... make haste, Andy!
Only joking. Take your time. :wink:

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Although in my "rank" I probably have a much more relaxed day in comparison to someone in the publishing business. They cook up the hard boiled deals in those hotel & conference rooms, I grant you that... Please pass on my sympathies to Mrs. Ceri for having to go to Frankfurt this year. I really don't miss it.

Though from my glimpse of it the hotels and restaurants are the fun bit. The deals, or groundwork for, are done in the Agents' Centre - did you ever go and look at that? Good grief, what a nightmare of neon strip lighting, bad coffee breath and bloodshot eyes that place is. Imagine spending 12 hours a day in there for a week! [Shudder]

Man, they deserve all that champagne they wallow in late into the night at Ted Smart's parties afterwards...

On the other hand, the time I paid a visit we got to the end of the fair and then drove up to Hattenheim for a few days at a schloss; Hotel Kronenschlößchen. Gotta say it was some of the very best food, the tastiest wine and the nicest people I've ever come across in the world - and I've come across plenty! Must do that again sometime...

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PS: maybe mentioned before, but I'm leaving on Wednesday, any beer whishes, Mr Ceri? I'm on four wheels so space ain't a problem! email: alex(AT)andersounds(DOT)de regards!

Extremely generous - thank you! I won't put you to the trouble but I much appreciate the thought. Hey, bring home a truckload of Schaller locking tuners instead, why don't you? There's business to be done there. :D

Anyhow. You carrying on the booktrade this side of the Channel, Nutter, or is it a change of direction for you?

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Ceri wrote:
a nightmare of neon strip lighting, bad coffee breath and bloodshot eyes that place is.

Can't say I pity myself for not having that experience... :oops: But I have heard some pretty gruesome stories about it. I must confess, the Booksellers' education in Germany during the apprenticeship is pretty thorough, and on quite a high quality level. At least that's what I've snapped up from doing a little comparison to other nations. And having actual publishers, agents and sales reps in, doing a little course during the schooling makes a big difference to mere theory. Shudder indeed!

I'm glad you enjoyed your stay in Hattenheim! And don't think that o-umlaut (ö) and the scharp "s" (ß) went unnoticed; it is well appreciated you took the extra time to put those in. Very courteous of you!
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You carrying on the booktrade this side of the Channel, Nutter, or is it a change of direction for you?

hmm, very considerate of you to ask! Why, do you have a job for me? :lol:
At the moment I am open to new opportunities, as they say; I do have a winter job in London during November & December, but after that I'm pretty much open to suggestions. I'm also not fixed on any branch really, I've been in several lines of work and could probably survive most things you throw at me. (Please note that I've never actually done any brain surgery, but that's just a matter of time :lol:) But if anything bookish should come up I probably wouldn't say no! :)

Well, I ain't gonna pester you about the beer. ;-) Should you change your mind, you know how to reach me.
I'll pop down to Devon pretty soon too, so checking out The Bridge is not to far ahead! ;-)


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PS: X-Nay on the Schallers, mate; I figure they're pricey all over this sweet globe. :(
PPS: Andy, I fear we might have intruded on your thread a bit, sorry for that! Only passing time while we wait for your wiring delights! :)

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1. I'm glad you're back on this project.
2. That finish is "Big"
3. You deserve this token of my appreciation. Great job...


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1. I'm glad you're back on this project.
2. That finish is "Big"
3. You deserve this token of my appreciation. Great job...

Hi Tdanb2003

:lol:

Cheers mate!

Any chance you could post up a smaller pic as the hilarious one you've very kindly posted is huge and will make my next post a real bugger to post up!

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Let me help you out here, Andy

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cheers mate!


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Howdy!

Pickups from the X Man!

A few posts back I mentioned I'd received a package from the U.S.

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That package was from Forum user Xhefri who I've been in e-mail contact with.

Long before I joined the forum, I'd spent many an hour drooling over the unbelievably cool Strats and Teles, Xhefri has on his website. I especially like his Strat Ultra's and am a big fan of his custom wiring, which as we've seen recently is of a very high standard.

So you can imagine how chuffed I was to have the opportunity for him to be involved in my build.

Time to reveal what was in that package!

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Blue Lace Sensor
Resistance: 12.8k
Peak Frequency: 2100
Inductance: 6.58 henries

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Silver Lace Sensor
Resistance: 7.1k
Peak Frequency: 3000
Inductance: 3.38 henries

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Red Lace Sensor Dually
Resistance: 30.5k
Peak frequency: 1450
Inductance: 14.8 henries

The X Man is one seriously busy chap but took the time out to cut me a great deal on the above and shipped them out faster than anything else I've ever bought from the U.S! Needless to say they arrived in perfect condition with all the screws and tubes, and a mounting bracket for the dually.

Now, these aren't just Lace Sensors as they've come from the X Man so I'm pretty sure that makes me the proud owner of a set of WeaponX pups! :D

Thanks again Jeff, your a legend mate!

Now we have our pups we can start on some Big Hairy wiring!

The Big Hairy Wiring Diagram

And here's how I'm going to wire up my set of Weapon X pups!

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EDIT: There's a mistake on the above! Circled in red.

Wiring that bad boy up should be fun!

Big Hairy Strat Wiring

Lets have a quick role call for all the components we need for the above!

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Three Fender S-1 Switches. Don't worry I have a plan to do something about the fact they all say “Vol” on the switch tip. :wink:

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One Fender 5 way Super Switch

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One DT/DP Switch (on/on/on) for the Dually

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One Wilkinson Mid-Boost PCB.

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One 0.022mf Mylar cap, One 0.022mf and one 0.033mf Sprague Orange Drop caps

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One Switch-craft Stereo Jack Socket

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Plenty of multi coloured hook up wire, Small snips, Wire cutters, Tweezers, Some heat shrink tubing, some Solder and a Soldering Iron. I think that's just about everything.

Pot Swapping

One of my S-1 pots is a 500k and I want them all to be 250k so we going to have to do something about that. This should be good for those of you who haven't seen inside a potentiometer before.

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I'm going to swap out the 500k Carbon trace for a 250k that I have in a spare CTS pot.

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As you can see in the above pic there are 4 small lugs that hold the metal top collar on. I've opened two of them so you can see. Once all for are open we can remove the collar and then the carbon trace.

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That's what the inside of a pot looks like. Not much to it really. Anyway, now everything is in bits we can swap over the carbon trace and re-assemble making sure the holding lugs are clamping the collar down as before. Job Done! We now have three 250k S-1 Switches.

Soldering.

I'm no expert but this is how to solder Big Hairy Style! I'm going to use the Bridge S-1 Tone Pot to demonstrate this.

Now then, I was taught to make sure that there is a good mechanical join before soldering.

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As you can see in the above pics that's what I've done. The wires are tightly rapped round the pot lugs and are totally secure.

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Once the join is soldered there is less chance of the connection coming loose during those over shoulder throws and Townsend style windmills we all like to do! :D

Once its soldered we can add a small piece of the heat shrink tubing. Now, this is totally optional and the only reason I'm using it is to make everything looks tidy. Actually when I think about it, its probably quite handy if your packing lots of stuff in a small space as it should stop any bare wires or soldered joints contacting each other and causing problems later.

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The tubing shrinks down to size with a few passes of a flame from a cigarette lighter. Just be careful not to hold the flame over the wires for to long or you'll end up with a nasty mess.

For the S-1 switch part we can't get that good a join so we have to rely on the solder for this bit. The two wires we're going to connect here will turn the bridge pup on allowing 7 sound switching with a five way and a whole lot more that I haven't worked out yet with the Volume S-1 down.

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I've lightly filed the S-1 contacts as I found that sometimes they repel solder. Filing them gives it the solder something to key to. Then we shove the wire in the hole and put a small blob of solder on it and make sure its secure by giving it a little tug.

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Again, we add some heat shrink tubing and that's our Bridge S-1 Tone Pot wired up!

That's all I've got for today but tomorrow I'll be wiring up the S-1 switch with the 5 Way...Trust me it looks worse than it is!

Enjoy!

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Wow :shock: and I thought my wiring project was complicated! That will be so cool when it's finished, mega versatile as well! I've never really heard lace sensor pickups (that I know of anyway), so I'm interested to hear what it all sounds like


The Big hairy soldering guide is very helpful indeed, I feel like I've learned something! Also I never thought to use heat shrink, I think I'll give it a bash when I get on with my strat project :)

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I think this diagram is indeed quite big and hairy!
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I wonder where the inspiration for it came from. Maybe here? :idea:

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Man, that sound will definately go up to eleven!

I hope there's room for all the gadgets in the cavitys... have you tried it out, already? I would, but I'm a chicken! :?
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That guitar will be the swiss Army knife, soundwise! Or better still, a Leatherman! And what sweeeeeeet puppys, there! So cool! Yeeehaw! *falls over backwards, knocks himself out*

Cheers Andy. That will rock big hairy time!

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Hi tired_guitarist,

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I've never really heard lace sensor pickups (that I know of anyway), so I'm interested to hear what it all sounds like

Personally, I reckon its going to freak'in rock! But then this i'm bias. Try a Strat with Lace pups next time your out guitar shopping. Their not everyones cup of tea. But I love um! There build quality is excellent, great design and as noiseless as you can get.

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The Big hairy soldering guide is very helpful indeed, I feel like I've learned something! Also I never thought to use heat shrink, I think I'll give it a bash when I get on with my strat project :)

Good stuff! Glad I could help man! :D

I've posted some stuff over on your thread too!

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Hi Nutter,

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I hope there's room for all the gadgets in the cavitys... have you tried it out, already?

Enough room... well there wasn't at one point! I had way to many switches on my first diagram. So i had to re-think things, that's why theres three S-1 switchs instead. Pot and switch all in one. Marvelous!

Cheers! :D

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Aha! I knew it 8) - I always find that through obstacles such as these the overall design becomes much more streamlined. Well done on the three S1's!

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Andy mate: I'm out the country for a few weeks from tomorrow so I won't be around here much or at all for a while.

But I just had to take a last moment to say how impressive this work is, not least the photography. I happen to know how tedious it is taking hundreds of pictures, editing and cropping them and all the rest. That goes more so when they're very detailed and crisp close ups like yours. And multiples more when there's actually stuff happening in the pics. It is hard enough having a hand pretending to demonstrate something whilst hold the camera with the other, but in one of your soldering shots I'm sure I see a wisp of smoke - that's real soldering taking place before our eyes, isn't it? Talk about raising the bar!!!

You must have had help on that - did Ms BigHair handle the camera by any chance? Kudos to her if so...

Hi Andy's other half! :D

Nice work all together. You can be certain I'll be catching up as and when.

Oh, and respect to Jeff for supplying the Sensors. What a cool guy!

What a neat Forum! 8)

See y'all soon

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Hi Andy,

Thanks so much for posting up on my thread, well chuffed with the pics, I'll have them in front of me when I try fixing my wiring :)

Next time I go to the guitar shop I'll have a look out for Lace sensor pickups, just curiosity I suppose as I've never really seen them.

Can't wait for more progress :D


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