I've been through all the possible screw ups on jack holes. I've settled on my dremmel with a small drum sanding bit. I tilt it at 45 angle and dress out a dish around the hole by moving around a starter hole the size of the shaft. I can get through thick Padauk of 1/2" making a nice pocket for my pot. I'm doing the wiring just as you are except I haven't been grounding my strings. I'm now realizing it is important, though I've gotten away without it without effect that I can tell except I can't get my tone pot to function properly. I'm going back into about 5 magnetic pickup boxes to fix my grounding and see what happens. I was using a wiring diagram from Music Factory for piezos which didn't ground the strings. Thanks for the verbal step by step for your wiring. Just doing what you have with clear photos is as good as a video to me. Thanks Jason
I should also note that the jack had a short shaft, and I took my router to recess the hole about 1/8 inch to make the jack stick out just a little more on top. On my earlier builds this is something I always hacked after putting alot of hard work into it......I think my first few screw ups I tried using a spade bit to recess a hole....and didnt go so good.
Its not too bad once you do a couple. Volumes pots from the angle we see here is lug 1 input ( white wire from pup) lug 2 is output, lug 3 is ground to the back of pot. Lug 2 goes out to hot on jack, and ground of jack goes to back of pot. Also have one extra wire thats going to the brass tailpiece to ground the strings. I always thought the strings were the actual ground...but it seems more like the pot is ground, and you are grounding the STRINGS to that point. Ive been wanting to make some how to vids but havent seemed to have time to do that yet. Glad you found it helpful Dave.
Comments
I've been through all the possible screw ups on jack holes. I've settled on my dremmel with a small drum sanding bit. I tilt it at 45 angle and dress out a dish around the hole by moving around a starter hole the size of the shaft. I can get through thick Padauk of 1/2" making a nice pocket for my pot. I'm doing the wiring just as you are except I haven't been grounding my strings. I'm now realizing it is important, though I've gotten away without it without effect that I can tell except I can't get my tone pot to function properly. I'm going back into about 5 magnetic pickup boxes to fix my grounding and see what happens. I was using a wiring diagram from Music Factory for piezos which didn't ground the strings. Thanks for the verbal step by step for your wiring. Just doing what you have with clear photos is as good as a video to me. Thanks Jason
I should also note that the jack had a short shaft, and I took my router to recess the hole about 1/8 inch to make the jack stick out just a little more on top. On my earlier builds this is something I always hacked after putting alot of hard work into it......I think my first few screw ups I tried using a spade bit to recess a hole....and didnt go so good.
Its not too bad once you do a couple. Volumes pots from the angle we see here is lug 1 input ( white wire from pup) lug 2 is output, lug 3 is ground to the back of pot. Lug 2 goes out to hot on jack, and ground of jack goes to back of pot. Also have one extra wire thats going to the brass tailpiece to ground the strings. I always thought the strings were the actual ground...but it seems more like the pot is ground, and you are grounding the STRINGS to that point. Ive been wanting to make some how to vids but havent seemed to have time to do that yet. Glad you found it helpful Dave.
Thanks for your clear photo of wiring. I need all the pics I can get on it.