Rewiring my Jaguar

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:33 pm

Update:
The good:
The grounding is all good, noise decreases as it usually did.
The bad:
No neck pickup on either rhythm OR lead circuit. On lead, when the neck is switched on it cancels out the bridge. The bridge pickup works.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:43 pm

when the lead circuit on my jaguar is turned on, the switches on the lower horn don't do anything

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:44 pm

wait what?

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:50 pm

Sounds like you have the "hot" wire of the neck pickup shorting to ground somewhere, and thus when you turn it on it kills the bridge pup as well since the hot wires are then connected, and that is then grounded, so it just grounds it all out.

Recheck your wiring on the "hot" side of that neck pickup.

Do you have a continuity tester?

Shaguar · Post by **Shaguar** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 10:02 pm

It looks like you have a solder bridge between the top and middle lug on the bridge pup switch.

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:42 pm

Yay. The LEAD circuit works completely, but oddly the rhythm still isn't doing anything, which is fine for now, as Idon't use it.

Thanks!

Dice · Post by **Dice** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:34 pm

All I know is that I am looking forward to wiring my Jag project even less than I am refinishing it!

Hopefully you get that rhythm circuit worked out.

Post by **dots** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:26 pm

cobascis wrote:Yay. The LEAD circuit works completely, but oddly the rhythm still isn't doing anything, which is fine for now, as Idon't use it.

Thanks!

oh man, you've got to get the rhythm circuit sorted and play with it a bit. i know it all depends on style and tastes, but it's too a rich tone with too many possibilities to not at least have working in case. . .