Recomendation for a good intro electronics/pickup/mod book?

JamesBenjamin · Post by **JamesBenjamin** » Thu May 14, 2009 10:25 pm

I'm looking to start tweaking some of my guitars, but haven't done anything of the sort since high school, when I was sort of just soldering things together and hoping not to blow anything up.

So does anyone know of a basics/mid-level book (or two or three) on guitar electronics I might want to look into?

My first project will be replacing all the electronics in a epi lp special so that's fairly simple (it only has one "p90"), but I have another guitar to tackle this summer that will be a lot more involved...

Thanks!

bassintom · Post by **bassintom** » Thu May 14, 2009 11:21 pm

You can find a shitload of wiring diagrams on the Seymour Duncan site.
Welcome to SS.Org.Tread lightly,and wear a steel plate in your pants.JK

I learned everything I know about building guitars here.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Thu May 14, 2009 11:53 pm

Welcome.
There are general guidelines with most designs, 'rule of thumb' type thing. But theres nothing wrong with breaking rules

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu May 14, 2009 11:55 pm

bassintom wrote:You can find a shitload of wiring diagrams on the Seymour Duncan site.
Welcome to SS.Org.Tread lightly,and wear a steel plate in your pants.JK

he's not kidding about either.

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Fri May 15, 2009 1:25 am

Make sure the metal plate is grounded to the one in your brain pan.

This is theBOOK I started with. It's good for all around repair and maintenance. Erlewine is the tech at StewMac. He has a lot of cool tools, and some that he helped invent. I go there every few weeks or so.

What kinds of mods are you thinking about?

JamesBenjamin · Post by **JamesBenjamin** » Sun May 17, 2009 5:14 am

That stewmac site looks pretty good, I bookmarked that sucker to come back to it later.

If replacing the original p90 in the epi goes well (one of the pots is shot, so i'm going to replace everything) then i might try a pedal mod or two. I have an extra DS-1 i'm itching to do something to, i just don't know what yet.

I also have another guitar in peices that is wired weirdly - the hb pickups have a knobs blending the split hb pickups, i'd like to replace the knob action with switches. but that guitar has been in peices for years, i'm not sure how its set up now, i'm going from memory. i do have the electronics bagged and marked well for when the time comes, though.