Help me untangle some wiring

[wraub]

I'm having similar issues with the wiring mess I found inside a recent guitar acquisition, and it was definitely easier to remove everything, and just replace the pickups with new pots, a cap and a switch.

Now I just need to find a place that's inexpensive for the parts, and that's also not amazon.

 

[dwizum]

Mouser has all the normal 250k and 500k pots from Bourns, Alpha, and CTS at good prices:

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I like Mouser's website for electronics parts just because of all the extra tools they include, regardless of prices. You can make up a bill of materials, add comments, tag part numbers or project numbers on things, import or export your data, and so on. It makes it really easy to keep track of what you've bought and where you've used it, so next time you go to do something similar you can look back and see what you did last time.

If I'm only buying one or two pots sometimes I just search eBay since Mouser's shipping means it's only economical if you're buying more. There are a couple vendors on eBay that beat Mouser's prices even accounting for buying in bulk but you have to kind of hunt and peck to find them.

 

[RitterSport]

OK, new plan. Since both of my kid's guitars are telecaster-like now, what if I added a whammy bar to the one with the screwed up wiring? Is that hard to do?

 

[Reedt2000]

OK, new plan. Since both of my kid's guitars are telecaster-like now, what if I added a whammy bar to the one with the screwed up wiring? Is that hard to do?

Totally not worth it. It would require either major surgery, an investment in parts more than the guitar is worth, or both.

Best moves are to either rock it just like it is, or rewire back to the stock setup. It may have telecaster type controls, but the pickups are totally different so it will not sound anything like a tele.

 

[RitterSport]

OK, thanks!

 

[dwizum]

There are some cheap knockoff surface mount bigsby-style trems that can just get screwed on and don't need lots of modifications (nothing as complicated as the routing needed for a traditional trem at least). You can get them on ebay in the $30-50 range. But I agree they're not worth it unless you REALLY want a tremolo, you like that style, and you're on a tight budget. For one thing, they're not very stable in terms of tuning, so they can be frustrating for people who aren't willing to put up with that.