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157453 No.157453 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /diy/,

for my first electronics project, I want to modify my Wah Wah pedal (mainly a matter of exchanging some resistors) as well as one of my guitars. Right now, the coils are wired in series, which I want to change so that they are wired in parallel, and I want to replace the tone/volume pots with push/pull ones so that I can split off one coil of each pickup.

Questions:
- How much soldering practise would you recommend before laying hands on my guitar (it cost about 500 euros, so I don't really want to fuck it up. I have a cheap old guitar I can practise on.)?
- Besides a soldering iron, some solder, the usual tools and the electronic parts I want to put into the guitar / pedal, do I need anything? Like specific cables or other things I haven't even heard of yet?
- As you can see, I'll need to make junctions in the wiring in order to put the coils in parallel. How would I do that without using circuit boards? Do I just strip the three wires, solder them together and insulate them again?

Appended image is what the guitar wiring should look like afterwards.

>> No.157456

1. Practice with some wires. You've practiced enough when the results look like example joints should look, you can produce such joints in couple of seconds and you're confident on your skills.
2. You probably need some hook-up wire and heat shrink tubing. Desoldering braid is good to have, too.
3. Yeah.

>> No.157460
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157460

>>157456
Okay, thank you. Guess I'll buy a big roll of wire and get practising.

Here, have some porn.

>> No.157461

>>157456
Oh, one more thing:
What kind of hook-up wire would I need? Does it matter at all?

>> No.157493

>>157461

Convenient size. Take a look on the existing guitar wiring and get something of similar size. It's not critical.

>> No.157582

One thing to look out for OP. Some humbucking pickups aren't designed for you to be able to easily isolate the separate coils. If there are two additional smaller wires that run out of the shielding, only to be soldered together and taped off, then you're golden.

>> No.157594

>>157582
I don't have the guitar with me right now (visiting parents) but IIRC there are 5 wires coming out of each pickup, 2 for each pickup and a black one for shielding. Is that what you mean? Otherwise I guess I'll just replace them altogether (still do the wiring changes) with... pff fucked if I know. Guess I'll order a bunch and try them all out.

>> No.157595

>>157594
>2 for each pickup
*coil