r/guitarmod

Absolutely love this thing. Marketplace find a few years back, it was second one I’ve ever seen (after the other guitarist in my high school band).

Whilst just a tarted up Studio (w a ‘Custom Shop’ logo on the headstock?) it’s got a nice neck, Grovers, and now a Tusq XL nut so is a great gigger.

To mod:
- My knobs fall off so those need changing; want something that’ll complement the paint, rather than give it a vajazzle.

- Stuck a Suhr Doug Aldrich (raw nickel) in the bridge which screaaaaams. Getting the neck pup too but tempted to go for a different colour.

Hear me out: since seeing a cheap 2nd hand Suhr DA in gold I’ve got it into my head that it’d be hilarious to chuck in mismatched. Talk me out of it.

- new Truss Rod cover could be fun

- will probs do a coil tap one day

What would you do if this was your axe?

I wanted to try some more dual rail pickups, so I put in 3

White pickguard is the original form and black is the new

this is my first time building a telecaster and I’ve done everything from scratch. I’m up to the part where I’m wiring the telecaster and I’ve tried to do everything correct but it came out wrong. When I plug it in, there’s no sound and I checked the output jack and I checked if anything interfered and I don’t see no problem. I understand my soldering looks messy, but that’s because it’s my first time doing so. I tried to take some off, but that just simply doesn’t work. can someone please try to help me?

Hi fellow guitarists and luthiers!

I need help with a wiring diagram for a guitar for my son (15).

His guitar in question is a is a Fender Vintera 2 Telecaster Deluxe. We’ve already replaced the neck with a Warmoth neck and the pickguard with one I made myself based on my sons drawings. It’s his only guitar and he loves it. I love modding and tinkering as much as he does and the time together is priceless.

Current wiring: It has 2 wide range humbuckers, with a dedicated tone and volume control each. There is a three-way selector switch to select the pickup configuration. Standard as purchased, the wiring is not changed in any way.

Now, he likes to add a single coil in the middle. We selected a Seymore Duncan SSL5 single coil pickup between the two humbuckers, so that it becomes a HSH configuration.

I’ve already got all the parts, including three Göldo Mustang Duo switches (they have 6 pins each). We plan to place each below the actual pickup, a bit like the red special.

We want to wire it that way that each of the three switches can switch one of the pickups on or off. The three-way switch should function as a kill switch, regardless of which pickup(s) are on.

The bridge PU should retain its dedicated volume and tone controls, while the single coil middle and the neck PUs can share the volume and tone controls.

I have soldered a different guitar wiring before once, and it worked. So in theory, we’re good to go…

I asked ChatGPT for a diagram, this is what it came up with. What do you think?

Thank you for your help!

I’ve been modding my guitars for quite some time now, but trying to decide if I should put these hot rails into my classic squier Jaguar. Does anyone have input on such mod/has anyone done it and can offer anything I need to look out for before going through with it? I don’t personally like the sound of the regular Jaguar single coil, it isn’t as loud as my other humbucker guitars, and it’s a little too thin.

I just got the Squier Vintage Modified Mustang for my birthday, and I want to replace the pickguard with a white one, but I don't know where to look since I know that most Mustang pickguards don't fit every Mustang. So if you know where to find a white pickguard for my Squier VM Mustang please lmk!

I have an HH guitar, and I plan on swapping out all the electronics. Said guitar is 10+ years old, rusted, and doesnt work.

This is gonna be my first time modding a guitar, or even soldering. I wanna do a partial coil split for BOTH humbuckers, neck and bridge. Vol will control the neck split, and tone will control the bridge split.

So, Ive seen people use the back of regular volume pots as star grounds. Can i do the same with push pull pots?

Any other things i should know about while doing this mod/build?

My 2019 CST-24 was originally blue, but the colour gradually faded to green on the front and a horrible green-brown on the back. So it was time for a refinish. I also top the opportunity to add wood so I could carve out the control recesses and move the tuners into more direct pull position. Oh and fit a scooped input jack directly in the side.

i recently bought a Squier Classic Vibe Mustang and a Seymour Duncan Mini Humbucker and have

• kept the existing single coil wiring
• added a volume pot connected directly to the humbucker to act as a ‘blend knob’ in with the original circuit
• i swapped the middle and outer lugs on the volume pots akin to jazz bass wiring to avoid one volume turning down the others

My problem now is that the humbucker seems to be seeing the other components and it’s a lot of its treble is being bled to ground ( to my knowledge) it is a beautiful pickup that sound bitey and fat but in this wiring it is like the tone is rolled all the way off constantly.

also, when all pickups are engaged when i turn the original volume pot up full, the overall output it is quieter than when volume is rolled back slightly

i dont mind buying any resistors or switches or anything you guys have to recommend to definitively fix this problem

the guitar works flawlessly, no hum or static which i aim to preserve but just want the humbucker to be more usable

picture:
first large volume knob is original volume circuit
second smaller one is humbucker blend
last ‘chickenhead’ knob is tone

Diagram of my wiring

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you
!

I have a MIM Fender Stratocaster that I'd like to dive bomb with, but I don't want to take a router to the body to install the traditional Floyd Rose tremolo system.

I'm considering a Floyd Rose rail tail (the current tremolo on my strat sucks either way and I want to replace it). I currently have locking tuners installed - will they, combined with the roller saddles on the rail tail, keep my strings in tune if I'm using the tremolo?

Floyd Rose Rail Tail Narrow Tremolo System - StewMac

i recently bought a Squier Classic Vibe Mustang and a Seymour Duncan Mini Humbucker with the intention of.

-Leaving the existing wiring exactly the same
-Adding another volume pot to act as a ‘blend’ for the new humbucker so i can add it in, in any position.

i did exactly that, and the pickup signals only meet at the output jack but somehow the original volume pot controls the humbucker, the humbucker volume controls the original pickups volumes aswell as its own and the tone control rolls tone off the humbuckers tone aswell even though (in my mind) they are unconnected.

i am at a wits end and dearly need some help.
I’m in love with the look of the guitar.
I can add pictures if needed of the wiring.
(ignore the switch and aux input on the pickguard it is not yet wired up, i’m hoping to play my P.O sampler through the guitar so i can add effects to it)

Thank you!

I’ve had this Squier Affinity Series Jazzmaster for a few years and I’m tryna turn it into a project guitar. I started off playing shoegaze but now I use it mainly for alternative post-hardcore/emo/noise rock (ie. Unwound, Sonic Youth, Sunny Day Real Estate, Slint) I’m still learning a lot about all this stuff haha but I’m open to recommendations about what I could modify/swap like pickups, bridge, strings, etc. I’m super down to tear it apart and create something brand new out of it :)

Hi everyone, swapping my bridge pickup soon and I’m wondering - can I just leave the pickups rings off? Do I need other screws if so? Will the holes from the pickup ring corner screws be heaps obvious?