Emergency wiring problem

[SwamiRob]

I've tried it with alot of amps and it seems to have the same problem, had the gain down to 1.5 on my main amp at the moment to double check cos my practise amp is a bit awful and still had the same problem.

I'll try some alternative wiring to see if that rectifies the problem.

 

[SGD Lutherie]

I had a really weird thing happen once. A guy brought me his Strat, and he said the neck pickup all of a sudden got really loud and distorted sounding. It didn't matter how far you lowered the pickup. It was much louder than the other two.

There were Duncan rail pickups. He had installed them himself, and when doing so, melted a wire on the neck pickup, and the wire ended up getting stuck on the magnet and made contact with it. I think it was the white wire.

When I pulled the wire free, the pickup went back to normal!

I've been wiring guitars and making pickups for a long time, and I still have no idea why that happened. For some reason that made the pickup crazy loud. If it happened once, it could happen again.

So maybe check out that lose wire you had, and see if the rest of the wired are OK.

 

[SwamiRob]

Cheers man, loud isn't exactly how I'd describe the thing at the moment but given that it's stack any sort of crazy short circuiting could be happening like you say, if I don't figure it out at least I have a sweet bridge humbucker sound going for me, kinda interesting having a pickup that much closer to the bridge that puts out so much more deep bass the one a good few inches up from it. The Jazz certainly gives it some nice low mid warmth and growl though.

 

[SwamiRob]

This is a bit of a revival, but I think I worked out the problem, essentially when the strings hit or come into close contact with the Jazz pickup the signal goes either weird or cuts out briefly. I don't know what's causing this however so if someone could enlighten me that would be great, might it be to do with having the pickups wired out of phase or something? I wired the Jazz both ways when I wired straight to jack initially and it didn't seem to make any difference however...