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wiring question - what have ai done wrong? tone only works at full volume SORTED

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markblackmarkblack Frets: 1534
edited June 2023 in Making & Modding
just put a new pick up in a project guitar - a coil tapped tele bridge pick up and the tone only works with the volume at ten.

so I've clearly done something stupid - any suggestions much appreciated!

this is how I did it... wrongly 

cheers

mark

 
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  • SteveRobinsonSteveRobinson Frets: 6565
    tFB Trader
    You've got the output from the switch connected to the jack, move that wire to the green one.
    Lacquer demos here: https://www.manchesterguitartech.co.uk/category/finish/
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  • Dave_McDave_Mc Frets: 2022
    Check with someone who knows better than I do (@ICBM @Funkfingers etc.) but I think you need to connect the wire coming from the middle of the push-push to the input of the volume pot (where the green wire is), not the output jack. 

    I'm a bit hazy on tone pot wiring- the way you've wired it may well work perfectly fine, but I usually connect the wire from the volume to the tone pot to the tone pot's middle lug and then the tone cap from the tone pot's end lug (where the green wire is currently connected at the tone pot) to ground.

    Or more simply... you don't seem to have your volume pot grounded. You need to have the unused lug of the volume pot grounded. I actually noticed that last, again that may solve it by itself- definitely try that first (unless you just accidentally left it off your diagram). That is one thing I'm sure of- that needs to be done if it hasn't been already.
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 13312
    edited June 2023
    Steve is correct.

    Vol. Terminal 1 = Pickup signal and connection to tone control

    Vol. Terminal 2 = Output to jack socket.

    Vol. Terminal 3 = Ground to pot chassis (and output socket) 


    Tone Terminal 1 = unused

    Tone Terminal 2 = signal input

    Tone Terminal 3 = capacitor (other end to ground)
    Be seeing you.
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  • markblackmarkblack Frets: 1534
    Thanks all. I shall have another go. @Funkfingers @SteveRobinson @Dave_Mc ;
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  • markblackmarkblack Frets: 1534
    @Funkfingers sorted! thanks!
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 13312
    Credit where it is due.

    Steve spotted the problem.

    All I did was write things out in a way so idiot-proof that even I could understand it.
    Be seeing you.
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  • markblackmarkblack Frets: 1534
    @Funkfingers even I understood it... So fine work! Cheers @SteveRobinson ;
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  • Dave_McDave_Mc Frets: 2022
    Funkfingers said:
    Credit where it is due.

    Steve spotted the problem.

    All I did was write things out in a way so idiot-proof that even I could understand it.
    LOL he ninjaed me! If I'd seen his post before I wrote mine it'd have saved me a lot of bother!  =) He managed to say in one line what I did in about 3 long paragraphs...
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