cimar strat pot/pup/earthwire help (lost 2 pups)

bigtimerockboy · 01-24-2009, 10:11 PM

hi;

in an order to individualise my strat copy i pulled it apart and drew a design and laquered over it.

when dismantling i was as careful as i could be with the electronics but now have 2 pups gone (no signal). i get the nice woody neck one alright but the other 2 seem to have gone to live with baby jesus.

i've checked and everything seems wired up okay.

anybody got a wiring diagramme but not a schematic as i'm slysdexic with those things (awww come on .. it was a joke already *a thousand dyslexic people hamn me to dell!*)

seriously ... i did electronics at school (more like they did me) and i can't read 'em so a diagram with real representations would be a groove (several actaully).

i love 'elvira' (yeah..i named her after the song by the oakridge boys) and she sounds great and feels great to play.

if i don't get help here i guess i'll just have to make all the pickups idependant which will make it better than standard but be a pain (you know, on/off, vol, tone for each pup so all three can be on at once which you can't do with a standard 5 way)

cheers

p.s. when i have a shirt off and a sweat up (ewww....) the string holes zap me a little. i'm wondering if this is connected...and there's a lot of earth leak noise. now the earth wire from the bridge to the pups is connected to the bridge and the other end came off so i put it back on a random pup.

i'm wondering if there's a connection or if it's a separate problem.

any light on the subject would be greatly appreciated.

Mr. Pickle · 04-22-2009, 05:20 PM

Can you get any close up pics of the wiring and all that?

As far as the ground to the bridge, it usually isn't just connected to a pup. That ground usually is connected to the volume pot, or whichever, to complete the ground, since your pots are usually the common place to ground.

01-24-2009, 10:11 PM	#1
bigtimerockboy giss $50 for a coffee Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: in a wheely bin Posts: 86	cimar strat pot/pup/earthwire help (lost 2 pups) hi; in an order to individualise my strat copy i pulled it apart and drew a design and laquered over it. when dismantling i was as careful as i could be with the electronics but now have 2 pups gone (no signal). i get the nice woody neck one alright but the other 2 seem to have gone to live with baby jesus. i've checked and everything seems wired up okay. anybody got a wiring diagramme but not a schematic as i'm slysdexic with those things (awww come on .. it was a joke already a thousand dyslexic people hamn me to dell!) seriously ... i did electronics at school (more like they did me) and i can't read 'em so a diagram with real representations would be a groove (several actaully). i love 'elvira' (yeah..i named her after the song by the oakridge boys) and she sounds great and feels great to play. if i don't get help here i guess i'll just have to make all the pickups idependant which will make it better than standard but be a pain (you know, on/off, vol, tone for each pup so all three can be on at once which you can't do with a standard 5 way) cheers p.s. when i have a shirt off and a sweat up (ewww....) the string holes zap me a little. i'm wondering if this is connected...and there's a lot of earth leak noise. now the earth wire from the bridge to the pups is connected to the bridge and the other end came off so i put it back on a random pup. i'm wondering if there's a connection or if it's a separate problem. any light on the subject would be greatly appreciated.

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04-22-2009, 05:20 PM	#2
Mr. Pickle Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 9,064	Can you get any close up pics of the wiring and all that? As far as the ground to the bridge, it usually isn't just connected to a pup. That ground usually is connected to the volume pot, or whichever, to complete the ground, since your pots are usually the common place to ground.