Soldering

[mickey]

Pencil eraser on the back of a pot makes soldering at least 100% easier.

[Rollin Hand]

Welp.....(lowers and shakes his head)....I finally got the nut installed on my Spad. Fresh strings, tuned it up with the awful cheap locking tuners and....failure. The neck pickup only worked if the switch was in the middle position, or when I jiggled the switch aggressively. The tone knob somehow controls whether I have sound. If I turn up the tone knob to full, I get dead silence. Dial it back a little, and I have sound. And I am pickng up the beacon from the airport, which shouldn't be happening at all with actives. Bottom line is it don't work right.

So,I am thinking that my ham-fisted attempts at this dark art have wrecked a pot and a switch. And the ground, supposedly not a thing with actives, is a thing. Dammit!

Thinking I need to sideline this one until I get something else done to avoid....well.....

[ID10t]

Welp.....(lowers and shakes his head)....I finally got the nut installed on my Spad. Fresh strings, tuned it up with the awful cheap locking tuners and....failure. The neck pickup only worked if the switch was in the middle position, or when I jiggled the switch aggressively. The tone knob somehow controls whether I have sound. If I turn up the tone knob to full, I get dead silence. Dial it back a little, and I have sound. And I am pickng up the beacon from the airport, which shouldn't be happening at all with actives. Bottom line is it don't work right.

So,I am thinking that my ham-fisted attempts at this dark art have wrecked a pot and a switch. And the ground, supposedly not a thing with actives, is a thing. Dammit!

Thinking I need to sideline this one until I get something else done to avoid....well.....

I wish it was working for you but I like the step back and achieve success somewhere else for a minute approach. I try that, I keep some "low hanging fruit" around for that.
Good luck.

[glasshand]

The frustrating thing about working on guitar electronics is that the only way to really do things right is to take everything out and do it all neatly, then put it all back, every single time you need to make any change.

[Rollin Hand]

Welp.....(lowers and shakes his head)....I finally got the nut installed on my Spad. Fresh strings, tuned it up with the awful cheap locking tuners and....failure. The neck pickup only worked if the switch was in the middle position, or when I jiggled the switch aggressively. The tone knob somehow controls whether I have sound. If I turn up the tone knob to full, I get dead silence. Dial it back a little, and I have sound. And I am pickng up the beacon from the airport, which shouldn't be happening at all with actives. Bottom line is it don't work right.

So,I am thinking that my ham-fisted attempts at this dark art have wrecked a pot and a switch. And the ground, supposedly not a thing with actives, is a thing. Dammit!

Thinking I need to sideline this one until I get something else done to avoid....well.....

I wish it was working for you but I like the step back and achieve success somewhere else for a minute approach. I try that, I keep some "low hanging fruit" around for that.
Good luck.

Well, the next on involves soldering as well, but it will be harder to screw up, in theory, as I would be transferring things to another pickguard and changing 2 singles for hums. They are even two wire humbuckers!