Black Beauty Mod
My 1st project on my 1st guitar.
After getting my 2nd electric guitar i stopped playing the 1st guitar for some time and thought its a nice candidate for modification since if any thing goes wrong i still have my main guitar.
My 1st guitar is a Yamaha Pacifica 112V here’s a image (camera not very good):
After getting my 2nd electric guitar i stopped playing the 1st guitar for some time and thought its a nice candidate for modification since if any thing goes wrong i still have my main guitar.
My 1st guitar is a Yamaha Pacifica 112V here’s a image (camera not very good):
So the plan is change the pickups to Seymour Duncan Distortion Humbucker SH-6B for the bridge, JB JR for Strat for middle and Little 59 for Strat for the neck.
The neck and middle pickups are Mini Humbuckers not single coils but the ideal resistance for the tone is 250k has the single coils, the humbucker’s use a 500k resistance so any guitar the mixes single coils and humbuckers wont have normally the best sound in both since difference that single coils and humbuckers require diferent resistances to work in optimal conditions for what they designed.
So the plan is to add a two stage potentiometer to the guitar witch will require modification to the scratch plate and the body it self to allow DPDT switch to be placed near the 5 way blade switch.
The neck and middle pickups are Mini Humbuckers not single coils but the ideal resistance for the tone is 250k has the single coils, the humbucker’s use a 500k resistance so any guitar the mixes single coils and humbuckers wont have normally the best sound in both since difference that single coils and humbuckers require diferent resistances to work in optimal conditions for what they designed.
So the plan is to add a two stage potentiometer to the guitar witch will require modification to the scratch plate and the body it self to allow DPDT switch to be placed near the 5 way blade switch.
A close up off the body off the guitar this will be where all is going to change, all the plates (scratch plate/tremolo cover and hardware cover) will be replaced by black ones, the guitar surface reflection cough the phone when the shot was taken and seems like it has hole.
The bare bones off the guitar the scratch plate is off now given aces to the interior to work, now its time to check all wiring and make a diagram for reference since all hardware is going off except the old 5 way blade so every thing needs to be replicated on the new wiring, lots off work and unsolder and re-solder in the new components.
The original interior wiring and layout off the components.
The process off desoldering the old components was new to me so it was very slow and tried to different methods off doing, the 1st one i attempted was with desoldering braid then finally after lots off attempts i changed to using vacuum plunger instead witch i already used in the past once but without great results.
From what i think the desoldering braid is more useful for removing the last pieces off solder if you want to remove it all and clean entirely the component, the vacuum plunger is more useful for removing the majority off the old solder, so the process is arm the vacuum plunger and place the soldering iron on the solder and the pump near it when the solder gets liquid activate the pump and some solder will be removed, doing this inside off the cavity while holding the soldering iron and the vacuum plunger is complicated because off the tight space.
Two days work in the guitar, a lot more than i excepted in working in the thing but here the end view off off the project.
The process off desoldering the old components was new to me so it was very slow and tried to different methods off doing, the 1st one i attempted was with desoldering braid then finally after lots off attempts i changed to using vacuum plunger instead witch i already used in the past once but without great results.
From what i think the desoldering braid is more useful for removing the last pieces off solder if you want to remove it all and clean entirely the component, the vacuum plunger is more useful for removing the majority off the old solder, so the process is arm the vacuum plunger and place the soldering iron on the solder and the pump near it when the solder gets liquid activate the pump and some solder will be removed, doing this inside off the cavity while holding the soldering iron and the vacuum plunger is complicated because off the tight space.
Two days work in the guitar, a lot more than i excepted in working in the thing but here the end view off off the project.
I am happy with the change in look and sound off the guitar, the guitar still needs some tweaks i think but looks nice and sounds nice.