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Jag owners w/ digital cameras: Need your assistance please.

Post by handen »

Hey all,

I have a problem that's been bugging me for over a year now. I have a CIJ '62 RI Fender Jaguar with extensive modifications. Everything's all fine and dandy with the exception of one thing, the claw around the bridge pickup won't ground. I've tried everything, but whenever I anchor my pinky to it while I play, it starts buzzing - hence why I believe I have a ground issue.

It didn't do this before I swapped the original pickup out for a second-hand ebay score, a Seymour Duncan SJAG-2 Hot. I wired it up the same way the old one was but it buzzes. It's gotten to the point where I've tried so many things that there's so much solder connecting the ground wire to the claw that it's impossible to heat up to remove.

Something's wrong. Probably a cold solder joint, but I've tried over and over and over to resolve the issue that I finally think I need some help.

So if you've got a Jag and some spare time, could someone do me a favour and pop the hood and take a clean picture of which bridge and claw wires connect to where? None of the Jaguar wiring diagrams I've found include the claw and its wiring instructions so this would help me immensely as I prepare to wire the Jag back to stock in preparation to sell it.

Thank you, and thanks again. :)
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I could totally help you fix this, as I just put a new pickup in my Jaguar....but I am old and busted. and you are new hotness. So I'm not gonna bother.
Go take it to someone to fix...you can afford to get people to do stuff for you.
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Oi, my dignity. :roll:
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Surely you can figure it out - it's just grounding. Ground everything is the general rule.
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Post by Fran »

It probably is'nt the claw. I had this problem on one of my CIJ models, somewhere along the line there will be a bad joint or something missed. Where the wires go to is'nt relevant as long as all the ground links up... but you know that right?
Consider the trem and bridge cups are not grounded too, they were'nt on mine anyway.
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Hurb wrote:I could totally help you fix this, as I just put a new pickup in my Jaguar....but I am old and busted. and you are new hotness. So I'm not gonna bother.
Go take it to someone to fix...you can afford to get people to do stuff for you.
ahahahahahahhaha

That was hilarious, petty but hialrious.
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