This is my Squier Contemporary Strat and I’m thinking about modding it. The first thing I want to do is switch the pickups for 2 humbuckers, any advice? Does anyone else have a guitar like this they’ve modded? I’d love to know!

Hello all.

I'm having some issues with my first scratch built Tele wiring.

My three-way switch does not work in the middle position - neither pickup is active here, and I have the feeling that I'm missing something simple but essential.

Any tips? Classic three way switch with four lugs on each side.

Wiring diagram and photos attached (I know my soldering is quite rough, but the connections are solid).

Hi, I'm trying to mod a sonic mustang into something similar to this cyclone, but I can't find anywhere the wiring diagram. Dose somebody know anything about it?

Wind rain and dirt aint gonna stop me!!!

Building this guitar, thought it would be a fun project, initially bought it from TikTok for $50, and since it was cheap I figured I’d learn how to swap out some of the electronics and learn on a cheap guitar instead of something nice, so i switched it from an SSS to an SH pickup setup, still just using the 5-way switch even though it doesn’t need it, I want the guitar to have a worked on and rough outer appearance, so I left the middle pickup hole there on purpose, but the bridge I swapped and I’m still waiting on a neck but the guard pickups and some small pieces I’ve already replaced, anyway after wiring up the new pickups I plugged in the guitar to test them, and they work, I put my phone speaker up to them and sound comes clearly through my amp, they are high output pickups so I’m sure that’s where a lot of the noise comes from, but it does make a lot of noise, until you touch the metal, is this a grounding issue or is that expected of high output pickups?

I've been wanting a metal guitar for a while but didn't wanna drop 1k on a Schecter, so I went with this Jackson JS22 with a natural wood finish. I've swapped out the pickups with the Zakk Wylde 81/85 set and have also added a tesi killswitch.

I LOVE it so far it RIPS and looks GREAT. But I wanna ask you guys what you think it could use next. The tuning stability is like decent with me whammying it every now and then, but I wouldn't mind making it a bit more stable.

Would locking tuners be worth it? Would swapping the nut with a graphite one be worth it? In your opinion, does adding an extra spring in the back make any difference?

Also, pls give me ideas on how to stylize it cus I do wanna do something to make it look cooler later on. Thanks.

Hi,

I am working on a project with a Charvel Model 4 body from the 80's with HSS routing that I scored of Ebay years ago. I want to reuse some parts I already have and one of the things is DiMarzio DP154. It is a bridge humbucker and originally comes with a plastic cover the size of a P90. I do not have the cover and the original cover also would not comply with the humbucker route in the body. The original cover is much larger. The pictures attached show the metal baseplate. The whole baseplate is originally covered.

I want to mini-humbucker look at the bridge.

I am now looking for a (custom?) metal cover that only covers the bobbins. The bobbins, however, are wider (30.5 mm) than a standard mini humbucker (28 mm).

Does anybody have any sources where I can get a metal cover with a custom size that would fit the bobbins?

Thanks!

I got this diy kit telecaster back in December. Put it together with the parts it came with, knowing I would upgrade it later. This weekend, I finished the upgrades.

Picture 1 is upgraded. Picture 2 is original.

What do you think?

Hello I am trying to get an opinion

I am modifying my Ibanez grg140 by customizing it with black knobs swich and pickup covers and gold tremelo and tunners.

What do you think should I spray paint the pickguard black or vintage cream and for both of them I will put gold spraypaint like sprinkles.

The images are both ai

Please help me. Thank you.

Ever since i got this squier i cant help but to think its missing something. I believe it to be a partscaster of some sort, but the crisp white pickguard really bugs me and the pickups.

Should I replace my pickguard with cream or mint or? Help

Or maybe just swap the pickups to some in black and black knobs?

Any guitar wiring wizards?

This is my home built guitar (my first attempt) looks faboulius to my standards (very low) but the wiring is where I truly don’t pride myself, I decided to go with HHH with two hot hotrails and a hum bucker, each equipped with coil splits, I also added a DPDT switch on the bottom hot rail to phase it in/out, I also have a kill switch fitted and a DPST switch to choose the output going between the magnetic pickups and a piezo I installed, got one string on earlier and turned it on, all fine perfect apart some crazy static/buzz on the top 2 positions of the 5 way switch but after restringing the whole thing I turned it on again, no good no sound no nothing from the strings except the usual buzz you get from a plugged in guitar and the annoying loud buzz you get when plugging in the output jack etc but nothing from the strings, please please please help me I know it was ambitious to start out with this, many thanks, a terrible electrician

(Btw the wiring was done with the assistance of AI)

I've had this strat for about 4 years and wanted to finally get the little cellophane wrap from under the screws of the pickguard. In the process these little springs came out from the humbucker and im not sure how to put them back. The other side only has one spring so if someone knows please help!

I've seen a lot of wiring diagrams for the Gilmour mod, and similar mods, but none of them seemed to allow the pickup being switched on to have a tone control. In this case I used a Push/Push pot so I don't have to mess with grabbing and pulling it.

This mod wires the bridge and neck together with the mod activated, and reroutes the bridge and middle tone control to Tone 1, creating a master tone control.

I think it's an elegant solution for more control, and makes a quackier, fuller tele sound with the bridge and neck together! All 3 together gets a little muddy, but sometimes that is useful. Plus I like the idea of switching the controls to a tele layout with the push of a button.

In the pictures of my guitar, I had to swap the lead from B3 on the switch to the tone pot to the right-most lug after I took the pictures. On my pot, wiring it to the left-most lug made it work in reverse.

And yes I know I should have probably ordered shorter length pots. I made a mistake when ordering, and just didn't care enough to get the shorter ones. Everything fits nicely in my guitar with plenty of clearance, so they are staying this way. Plus it allowed wires to sit between the pot and the pickguard nicely.

Hopefully I've saved someone some time, and maybe there is a better solution out there.