My Life in Six Strings
I can’t believe the difference in this Wah now! I’m very pleased with it, and I have some more mods to try out. So far, I’ve replaced the:
Hear it yourself below. The stock version is just below that, for comparison.
I ran into a few snags on my Wah mod project. Self-inflicted snags. But hey, we’re family here so we share the good, the bad and the ugly! 
Here we have the circuit board before I started work. The round black thingy is the stock inductor:
This next pic shows the Whipple inductor installed. No problem getting it in there, it was a piece of cake, really! You just have to make sure you solder the pins in a way that completes the circuit:
This pic shows the error #1. I was trying to hold onto the soldering iron and reach for something and…well, I fried that little capacitor there! DOH! Glad I took that picture of the board before I started, so I know it’s a .01uf cap. The other good news is that the sweep cap is the same exact type as the one I fried. So I plan to switch this dead one out for the sweep cap and replace the sweep cap with a .015uf, when it arrives any day now from Small Bear Electronics:
Here’s a video of my stock Vox V847 Wah, before I mod it. I’m planning to install an ICAR Pot, true bypass, a Whipple Wah Inductor, a DC Jack, and a few other tweaks (swapping out the sweep cap and some resistors). I’ve recently abandoned my modeling pedal and gone all analog effects, including resurrecting my old wah. But I’ve been disappointed in the tone from this thing and after dozens of Google searches I took the plunge on this project. The challenge is that I need this Wah for some upcoming concerts so time is short! Here is the “before” video.
She’s done! I was able to get the guitar finished in time to play it at my gig Sunday.
The Neck:
The Warmoth Pro neck was amazingly easy to install and adjust. It’s not like you need to adjust your guitar neck a whole lot, but it is really handy to have the adjustment on the side. This Canary neck is my first “naked” neck. Maple necks require a finish but this wood does not. Wow, what a difference! The neck feels incredible, and I can feel the string vibrations much more strongly on it. The Pau Ferro fingerboard is also silky smooth and of course the grain of both woods look fantastic. I’m very impressed with the build quality.
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