Recent content by This Old Guitar

Well I received my "parts" Saturday...... Some pickup covers and an output jack plate for a Strat....sigh. Sent a message to the seller through Reverb Saturday..... still no response.

A "Fender price" is anything more than I am willing to pay, sort of like a "Gibson price". LOL But that part, minus the plate, is exactly what I am looking for! So $20 spent. I'm kinda pissed it quit. I really haven't played it all that much, but I recently got an opportunity to play and I...

Yep. I just want to find one without a Fender price. I bought one I thought worked the same, off the Jungle site. No joy at all. Since the audio connections are straight forward TIP and SLEEVE, what does the battery connect to? Ground/SLEEVE I'm assuming.

Nope this is a sealed unit. A sleeve approx 2" long. I can tell which prong is TIP and which one is SLEEVE. There is a third contact, on a stereo aux cable you'd call it ring, but it isn't quite that. what it does, I have read, is disconnect the battery when you unplug the cable. I think what is...

No frikkin' sound! Ok it's not quite that bad. I get sound when the cable is ALMOST plugged all the way in and everything else works fine. If I push the cable all the way in, no sound. So my regular guitar guru tells me "Bad Jack". Well ok. finding that rascal is needle in a haystackish. I'm...