Guitar fixed with tape ;)

Tsuken · Post by **Tsuken** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:44 am

...insulation tape, at least.

I had a bright idea yesterday, and decided not to proceed with my drop C warlock project - rather to hot up the Ibanez a bit - and also then to put the super distortion pickup which was going in the Warlock into the Yamaha instead. Open up the back: "oh samick!" What a mess of wiring (individual pickup switches designed by yours truly, plus a series/parallel switch). Lots of wires. Figure out where to solder the S.D.'s wires. Trouble doing that because the shielding braid stuff took about 1/4 hour to get enough heat to melt the solder

Finally get that on. Tune it up, plug it in - fantasmic.

Screw the covers back on. Plug it in ....

....SAMICK!!!!!!! The bastard wasn't working any more! Pulled it apart: bit(s) of bodgy wiring were coming into contact with the shielding braid stuff on the humbucker's wiring, as there's heaps of it looped around the control cavity. Spend 1/2 hour looking for the insulation tape; which I'm sure was just around here somewhere....

Now works perfectly.

Still a bit mushy (particularly on the lower drive channel, strangely), but better clarity, and OMG! the pick harmonics! No wonder I used to get so many on the Samick when it had that Super Distortion pup in it. Absolutely fantasmic.

(And before you ask why I'm not putting it in the S470; (1) it's cream, not black

, and more importantly (2) the clean tone is "harder" than I want for the S

Post by Bg » Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:04 am

insulation tape covers a mulititude of sins....

The Scarecrow · Post by **The Scarecrow** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:17 am

Pulling a MacGyver? Did that when I mounted the Texas Special in the bridge of my strat. Who needs a soldering iron?

I suppose I'd better get Ash to do a proper job when I get a chance....

jimi · Post by **jimi** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:01 am

My 1st bass was a bitsa that I got from someone I was at school with - P-bass copy body and neck minus the frets, some EMG guitar pickup, a scratch plate cut out of a bit of clear plastic, and when I opened it up, I found the wiring was held together with masking tape. Worked ok though.

Tsuken · Post by **Tsuken** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:43 am

I did notice when I looked in the Yamaha, that I had tried to insulate joins by covering them in sellotape (this was years ago, and I had no insulation tape at the time

) So I covered all the sellotaped joins with insulation tape last night too

Gelato · Post by **Gelato** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:52 am

lol, I would hate to think how many rolls of sellotape and insulation tape I've been through doing dodgy repairs on guitars, car stereos, computers, and just about anything else that has wires in it

Tsuken · Post by **Tsuken** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:03 pm

There is nothing that can't be fixed with enough duct tape

- or if there is, it probably wasn't worth fixing anyway, so you should forget about it...and buy some more duct tape to fix the worthwhile stuff

Gelato · Post by **Gelato** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 2:30 pm

Tsuken wrote:There is nothing that can't be fixed with enough duct tape - or if there is, it probably wasn't worth fixing anyway, so you should forget about it...and buy some more duct tape to fix the worthwhile stuff

http://www.trademe.co.nz/structure/0153 ... 937519.htm

gregtarr · Post by **gregtarr** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:09 pm

Tsuken wrote:There is nothing that can't be fixed with enough duct tape - or if there is, it probably wasn't worth fixing anyway, so you should forget about it...and buy some more duct tape to fix the worthwhile stuff

Not the kind of thing you want to overhear your doctor saying.

Tsuken · Post by **Tsuken** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:22 pm

gregtarr wrote:
Tsuken wrote:There is nothing that can't be fixed with enough duct tape - or if there is, it probably wasn't worth fixing anyway, so you should forget about it...and buy some more duct tape to fix the worthwhile stuff
Not the kind of thing you want to overhear your doctor saying.

For medicine the equivalent would be: "There is no body cavity that can't be reached with a #14 needle and a good strong arm"

And rotflol at the t-shirt on TM

angry_young_poet · Post by **angry_young_poet** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:26 pm

extremely off topic...

anybody wants a stick?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/structure/auct ... d=22931483

ash can this be used to build a guitar neck?

Tsuken · Post by **Tsuken** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:33 pm

angry_young_poet wrote:extremely off topic...

anybody wants a stick?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/structure/auct ... d=22931483

ash can this be used to build a guitar neck?

People are bidding. It's up to $28. w3rd

Post by Bg » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:13 pm

Tsuken wrote: I did notice when I looked in the Yamaha, that I had tried to insulate joins by covering them in sellotape (this was years ago, and I had no insulation tape at the time ) So I covered all the sellotaped joins with insulation tape last night too

As a qualified electrical and mechanical engineer I would say - if it works do it, how long has the sellotape lasted

it isn't a safety critical application and I do draw the line at twisted wires but sellotape can be bloody handy

gregtarr · Post by **gregtarr** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 5:30 pm

Tsuken wrote: For medicine the equivalent would be: "There is no body cavity that can't be reached with a #14 needle and a good strong arm"

We learnt about cavities on Friday. I'm not sure I get the whole joke here. Just a nagging feeling that I'm missing something.

Tsuken · Post by **Tsuken** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 8:19 pm

gregtarr wrote:
Tsuken wrote: For medicine the equivalent would be: "There is no body cavity that can't be reached with a #14 needle and a good strong arm"
We learnt about cavities on Friday. I'm not sure I get the whole joke here. Just a nagging feeling that I'm missing something.

Once you've stuck a few needles and drains into various bits of people you'll laugh louder