With our wiring kit, you can choose the optional treble bypass capacitor for the volume control. Let's move onto putting it in our guitar and connecting the pickups. With the jack completed, solder the ground (black wire) to the back of the tone or volume control pot and the live (cream wire) to the output lug of the volume pot. With both wires, ensure they have a true mechanical connection - bend the wire through and round so that the wire is in solid contact with both sides of the solder lug. Thread the black wire through the ground lug (sleeve) and the yellow wire through the signal lug (tip). You can also use this tubing to keep both of the jack's lead wires together until they break away to their different solder points in the circuit. Repeat this step using 20cm of yellow/cream wire for the hot terminal. Not only does this create a more durable jack, it insulates and protects the joints from coming into contact with any shielding materials (copper foil, shielding paint etc.) that you may be using inside your guitar, potentially creating a short or grounding issues. Once cooled, cover the joint with the heat shrink tubing. Take 15cm of black cloth wire and solder it to the ground lug (the inner ring is always the ground on a jack). Your Switchcraft jack has two terminals - a ground and a live/hot. The wire running from the switch gets connected to the input terminal of the volume pot - in the same eyelet you will solder the wire running to the terminal directly opposite on the tone control. Follow the below 3 way switch wiring schematic and solder the end of the wire to the furthest switch terminal (lug 1 on the diagram), then lug 2, then 7 and finally 8. Using the cream cloth wire provided, pull the cloth back 5cm or so until you have enough bare wire underneath. The easiest method is to use a single wire running from the top of the switch continuously to the input lug on the volume pot. Once completed, it should look like the below photo. This, installs our capacitor and grounds the volume control at the same time. To do this, feed the capacitor lead through the volume lug eyelet and through to the back of the volume pot on the casing. One end of the capacitor needs to be soldered to the output (middle lug) of the tone control and the other end needs to go to ground. Install the capacitor as per the below photos. We'll start off by grounding - the third terminal of the volume pot needs to be grounded, this is what makes it function as a volume control. With regards to the switch, it doesn't matter which way it sits in the control plate - it will work the same whichever way round you place it. The pot nearest the switch is the volume control while the second pot is the tone control. The two CTS pots need to be facing each other. Use a damp heat resistant sponge or brass/steel shavings to clean off excess solder and residue.Īssuming you have already removed the control plate from your guitar, assemble the components as per the below photo. Heat transfer is key - make sure to keep you solder tip clean and tinned throughout the process. Solder melts at substantially lower temperatures but you need to make sure the component gets hot enough to allow the solder to flow into the joint you are creating. Ideally you want a temperature controlled soldering iron set to between 350☌-375☌ (lead free will require the higher temperatures). Tinning the components before makes for an easier and more reliable solder connection - both electronically and mechanically. It is recommended that you lightly tin the terminals of the pots and switch that will require a solder connection, as well as the tips of the wires.
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