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National Triolian - Fishman Resophonic/Lipstick pickup rewiring

Hey everyone. I’m trying to figure out a wiring scheme for a modded National Triolian resonator guitar. It has a Fishman Resophonic end pin jack pickup (link to that is below) as well as a lipstick pickup that was installed along with a three way switch, and two potentiometers. Essentially what I’d like to do is wire it so there is one volume control for the lipstick pickup, one volume for the piezo, and the three way switch controls eac…

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@member @member Thanks for the advice guys! Yeah this is potentially a bit of a mess but I'll discuss these options wit…
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Chinese Bass Preamp Installation

So, I have a chinese or DIY like 2 band bass preamp installed on a one pickup Ibanez bass. However, I'm stuck in the process of getting it connected. Basically the preamp has these connection cables: Red - 9v Black - Ground White - preamp out Blue - preamp in Yellow - Treble (?) Orange - Bass (?) The circuit has 1 pickup,1 vol, 1 concentric (bass/treble). I'm stuck connecting the concentric pot. Could you help me with that, please?

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Thank you so much, Gerry! Your help was very important. Long story short, it worked based on the G&L circuit with a little mod. I appreciate your help.
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PRS Narrowfield Pickups & Pots

Could not find any details, but does anyone know which value pots are used with the PRS Narrowfield pickups? Or alternately, anyone have any opinions on them? thanks.

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I don't have experience, but you might search on YouTube for Troglys Guitar Show. He's known for taking apart guitars (mostly Gibson) and showing the guts Here's one for an SE with Narrowfield pickups,…
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wiring diagram

2 GFS Surf City pickups. 3 way toggle switch 2 volume, 1 tone Can I wire this to make the volumes work separate for respective pickups and together in the middle position? Without a blender pot.

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Ok. Wire as shown but connect the pickup hot wires to the middle lug of each volume pot. The wires going to the switch will then come from the other volume pot lug. That make sense?
Private member DiscussionSELL! SELL! SELL!

LMII Side Bender - $600

Side bender machine in great condition. Includes spring steel, heating blankets, and thermocouple. No bending forms included, just the machine itself. Asking $600 for local pickup in Chicago area.

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Covered versus uncovered humbucker A/B testing

Hey, fellow Looths. I need a small favour… Short version: Go to https://statuesque-cocada-438199.netlify.app and listen and vote. It takes about a minute. Longer version: A friend’s son is studying music and audio production in college and is working on a project to test the covered versus uncovered humbucker question. He reached out to me for some help and I’m reaching out to you. He designed a solid experiment (even modding a guitar so…

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Hey Gerry! Just did the test. Are you gonna post the results, I mean, which was which. I'd like to know... zanks!
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Neck Jig For Sale

Stew Mac Erlewine Neck Jig for sale, purchased new in May of 2023. Very light use in excellent condition. More photos upon request. Comes with angle vise, shipping based on location. Available for pickup in Fairfield County, CT. $550.00 Erlewine Neck Jig Workstation - StewMac

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Taylor 410CE possible bad output jack

I have a customer bringing in a Taylor 410CE with intermittent problem pickup output cutting out. It has the 2 AA battery system I understand that Taylor no longer makes any repair parts for this system. If it is the output jack assembly causing the problem, I assume then that the whole system would have to be replaced. I have also heard the replacement system that uses 2 aa batteries does not have great reviews from customers online…

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Yes, you can get the ES 1.3-9v retro kit from Taylor. It does come with a AA power supply. But, make sure to get in there with a mirror first. There could be a ball end or steel wool on the magnetic t…
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1970s Guild S-90

This thing had a conveniently placed hole in the neck pickup cavity that ran all the way to the end of the tenon, presumably the entry point for the long drill bit that drilled the access from pickup cavity to control cavity before the neck was originally fitted. I injected several pipettes of hot water into this hole while heating the fretboard extension area with a silicone blanket to loosen the extension from the body. Reactivated hi…

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That is crazy looking. Thanks for sharing !
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What lines do you carry and which ones feel worth it?

Hey! I am in the process of switching to full time repair from a home shop and in preparation have picked up a few product lines. So far I have D'Addario, LR Baggs, K and K and Fishman. I worked at a retail store and did all the ordering so it was easy to get these set up. Does anyone on here have opinions or suggestions for lines that they do well with. I do a lot more acoustic than electric work but was considering seymour duncan as a l…

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I’m a wholesale partner with stewmac that gives me 20% off, is the builder partner something different I should look into ?
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Very strange pickups problem

I'll start by saying I don't post much because it's confusing to know if I should post on this site or the Patreon site, both are hard to navigate, etc. Also, I sent this question to the last "elder" meeting but I have no idea what the outcome was (I thought there would be some answers documented for those that can't attend live). So, with those frustrations out of the way... I have in my backlog a 1988 PRS Studio. It has HSS pickup c…

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Hey Jason There seems to be a lot going on all at once. I talked about first impressions on the council of elders discussion but David Collins had a great idea. My first thought on the tone control ac…
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Our thursday Go Acoustic Audio video meeting

Hi everyone, Thursday we will be doing a video feed with Ian to discuss our work, Developing an Acoustic guitar amplification system that provides players a better option than the common concepts so exploited for so many decades. As part of this discussion we would like to have people offer there issues with pickups and their concerns about what we offer. Given Pickups are so much part of Acoustic guitar performance we would like to hav…

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So nice to spend time with so many of your last thursday. One topic we discussed was installing our system in a older ESs with AA battery boxes. We made up this conversion which could be used with oth…
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Searching for some parts

I have two guitars I am working on that are missing a few parts and wanted to see if anyone has them that they would like to sell. I have a customer with an early 50's L5 that he got when he was 10 years old. He wants to reinstall the dearmond rhythm chief but is missing the long beam that connects the controls to the pickup and the small bracket affixes between the string run between the tail piece/bridge. Second, I have a 1978 telecaste…

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Strat mini switch diagram

Hey y’all, I’ve got a customers Strat in, and it had a 30 year old preamp or boost circuit in it that died. So we’re gutting it and replacing it with a standard Strat kind of layout. However, the system was done with individual mini switches for each pickup. The customer would like it to function similarly. I’ve tried to do up the wiring from scratch but haven’t had luck getting it to work as I want. To put it simply, we just want it to be…

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Hey JD, I found this one on the Seymour Duncan Wiring Diagrams page. I believe this should be what you're looking for. I'll also leave a link below to the main Seymour Duncan Wiring Diagrams page, sin…
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Variation on the Gilmour neck PU always on Strat Mod (series linked)

Hi there! I am trying to find an schematic to make a circuit I'd like to try. That would be the Gilmour neck PU always on Strat Mod but in a way that connects that extra pickup in series with the rest instead of paralel like in the original gilmour circuit. The thing is I don't even know if it possible to do it that way or how many switches woud you need to do it in the simplest possible way. If you have any feedback, clues, tips or whate…

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I should mention for completeness that it is possible to rewire the internals of the pickups in order to add a separate wire to act as the pickup's ground/shield. It tends to be a pretty fiddly job th…
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Strange Saddle Mod

Hey hive mind! Has anyone ever seen an acoustic saddle modded like this? If you have, what's the purpose of this notch under the b-bump? A client dropped off a bunch of guitars for repairs and setups this weekend and this saddle was in an early 2000's Larrivee dreadnought. It has a factory installed K&K Pure Mini under bridgeplate pickup and sounds great.

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Yeah, I've seen that with undersaddle pickups to tame a "Hot B" string. But never on a K&K.