Please help point out what's wrong with my wiring

[mistersparrow]

Apologies for posting about a strat here but you all have been so helpful before. I am trying to do the gilmour mod on my squier strat and have now completely silenced it. There is no sound from any pickup. My multimeter from the out put reads a 0.3-0.5 in each switch position. Clearly I've done something wrong. All I did was replace the tone 1 with a push pull pot, I re-wired as it was but added leads from it to the switch lugs. Anything look totally off here?

 

[mistersparrow]

Sometimes it's probably best to tinker a bit more before your post but I also think that even without a response posting brings me good luck. I have since solved this issue once taking my multimeter everywhere and everything. I found that I had continuity between the hot signal and the ground on my output jack somehow. It has since been fixed and sounds great...

Let this be a cautionary tale to check any and all issues before posting, it could just be a simple fix. :/

 

[sjtalon]

Good point.


Nice mod to do for sure. I've done that (several) myself and well worth it. I think the biggest thing with people doing these things that don't have a lot of experience (not to say you are one of those) is they sometimes rush the job and foul things up. I say just concentrate on ONE wire or solder point at a time, DOUBLE check where it goes and solder, and CONFIRM you have it right, then move on. We all get anxious to be done and then make a little mistake and if it's a more complicated wiring scheme (like say putting in a 4 w ) it's hard to troubleshoot after with all the connections and things going on. It's kinda like a phone number, all you have to do is be off one digit and your talking to someone you don't even know.

Just to add if anyone were to search and use your diagram, you may want to show that outer volume pot terminal to ground. Usually, one threads the cap lead through it (and solder the eye) on the way to the back of that pot on a Tele, or for a Strat, just bends it up to the pot can, then solder.

 

[Donmare2324]

the cap-to-ground @ tone pots appear to both be on the otter lugs - most all strats i see the power is on otter lug and the Cap to ground are always in the middle - this may just be sending all your Hot to ground like a kill switch -

 

[uriah1]

I have a few alligator clips on small 5inch wire..to test
my what ifs