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I've read good things about the Tonezone, supposed to have a good lower midrange crunch to it.

What is the point? It's now just a hardtail strat.

At present there are several options as to what it may become, most likely a Firebird or SG. Either way I think I'm going with some type of neck-through construction. If I go the SG path, I'm pretty sure there will be no need fro chambering.

So I've got a perfectly sized piece of Kauri that used to be a bench top many years ago, and I'm looking to turn into some kind of Telecaster/Firebird hybrid. So the piece its self weighs a lot, as in to much to be a guitar. So I figure it will require some type of weight relief, which will come cou...

I'm thinking at the least. I'll have to remove the masking tape and re-set any existing solder joints that look dodgey.

OK, so the thing seems to have a master volume, blend, low EQ, and a high EQ. The EQ section seems to work fine, the blend is a little crackly and the circuit completely dies on rare occasions. The volume is where all the fun is, you can barely even look at it and the whole instrument goes dead. At ...

Will try some trouble shooting on it tonight. Reports to follow.

IS it possible the tape is just there to stop the soldered joints shorting, it's pretty common, although heat shrink is more common... But it doesn't look terrible. Have you tried a new battery? It doesn't sound like a battery issue to me as the with most active circuitry you still get a small leve...

are the pickups active? Probably easier to just rip everything out, test the pickups are good and dump a whole new wiring harness in Correct, active pups indeed. It's not volume, tone, volume, tone though. It's volume, blend, tone, volume. I think, but because it's not working properly, I can't tell.

You can see the amazing tape wiring system here. How easy is it to remove pots from circuit boards and solder in new ones?

OK so a good friend of mine has moved overseas and left me with his spare bass and amp. I don't know a huge about about these things, other than bass players tend to have more time on their hands than us guitarsit, since they've got two less strings. Anyway I've cleaned re-strung and intonated the t...

I've never tried resistors across any of the pots, might have to give it a crack. Also considered a Seymour Duncan P-Rail, but haven't heard much about them. Or even seen one in a guitar as of yet. I did that with a Strat upgrade recently. Not sure I could tell the difference and it made the job mo...

I've never tried resistors across any of the pots, might have to give it a crack. Also considered a Seymour Duncan P-Rail, but haven't heard much about them. Or even seen one in a guitar as of yet.

If you're having tuning issues, rather than go crazy with a new neck, on my tele I have a decent graphtech nut, and graphtech string trees, gotoh tuners and bridge, no issues at all, if anything, angled back headstocks are worse for tuning stability, just look at Les Pauls.... *ducks for cover* You...

There are multiple reasons for wanting to replace the neck. Tuning stability, looks (I want and angled reverse headstock Tele). The angle would also mean I could lose the string trees, as in my mind they're just another thing for the strings to bind on.