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wiring mystery

Hello friends! I have finished my newest build, but am running into grounding issues. It's a basic setup with vol and tone pots with a hot wound (12 ohm) humbucker in the neck position. I have resoldered it three times using two different jacks and t

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momentary switch for guitar kill

came across a momentary switch that is able to momentarily kill the guitar when pushed and immediatly un-kill when let go. Anyone have experience wiring one of these? It has three poles. I would guess it is wired like a simple two-way toggle somewher

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two pickups on same jack

I have a prewired acoustic preamp to a mono jack with an on/off switch that activates when guitar is plugged in. Can I just wire a magnetic pickup to a vol pot and then solder to the same jack and turn the vol pot up or down to select mag or piezo? j

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sound absortion inside box

has anyone tried to laquer the inside of the box? I did this to a earlier build and it sounded a lot like a banjo. I would think that the wood absortion inside the box would make a difference in volume and tone.

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truss rods

I have had a few cbg's that started to bow at the neck when tuned high. Anyone know a po' man's way of making and installing truss rods. I don't own a router so I'm not sure how easy this could be, but a metal rod could be simple enough to find.

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mini-humbucker

hey josh I noticed the pickup on one of your guitars looks like an archtop mini humbucker made by artec, I recently place an order for one and if it is what you are using maybe you tell me how it sounds. I have always used piezo's, but I am really lo

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