Electronics: Custom Strat Part 4

I got started on the soldering today, but didn’t finish.  I have some family things going on as well as a gig this weekend.  Not bad problems to have! 

After loading the pickguard, I began soldering the pickups (pups) and pots to the switch.  I didn’t get to the ground connections yet, but I’m going to use the star grounding setup as illustrated in Quieting the Beast.

One nice tidbit I picked up from Jason at Musician’s Den, who has a whole detailed series of YouTube vids on doing a DIY Warmoth build: Use a piece of heat-shrink tubing to help organize the pup wires.  It makes for a nice, neat wiring job.

Once again, the guitarnuts.com site has been extremely helpful with this part of the build.  In particular, their wiring diagrams are as straightforward and easy to understand as they come.

Electronics: Mary Kaye Strat Project, Part 4

The back of the pickguard with the pots and switch attached.	Front of the pickguard with pots and switch attached.	Pickups installed to pickguard. These are Slider’s vintage classic 59′s (his SRV set).
Back of the pickguard showing everything in place, pre-soldering.	Here’s a peek at what she’ll look like when she’s done. Purdy.	Here you can see that I’ve started soldering. I didn’t get done today like I’d hoped.

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