Qvart
Senior Member
I figure some of you might appreciate, or at least identify, with this:
I bought this '96 S-100 awhile back and the pickups didn't have covers. I decided I'd rather have them so I found a couple Seymour Duncan covers and spent some time today installing them.
Now, I've never done anything like this so I went out on the internets and did some looking around. If you're like me you know what this can be like -- you might be a meticulous person concerned with every detail and get frustrated with the conflicting information and advice you come across. I figured out what I needed to do (it's fairly simple, despite some of the poor descriptions of the process I found) and dove into it.
In the end, I got the covers soldered on, cleaned up the fretboard, polished the wood (what a difference!), and put it all back together.
I took some pics to document the process, but all I had to use was my cell phone. If any of you looked at the pictures I posted before you'll notice the difference: those were taken with an 8MP camera. So the before and afters don't really do it justice.
Anyway, here's a day in the life of my Guild S-100:
http://s178.photobucket.com/albums/w248/rockinwithdokken/Guild S-100 Pickup Cover Installation/
And if you want to see the gallery of pics from before:
http://s178.photobucket.com/albums/w248/rockinwithdokken/Guild S-100 1996/
I have yet to plug it into my amp, only the tuner so far. It worked fine for tuning and intonation. Cross your fingers as I plug in the Marshall.
Late!
PS: Any advice/system for pole height adjustment? or should I just experiment?
Update: I plugged in, played with the switches and settings on the guitar and amp, nothing new. Then at one point I got some feedback I don't remember getting before. Bad potting job maybe? My imagination? Hmmm...
I bought this '96 S-100 awhile back and the pickups didn't have covers. I decided I'd rather have them so I found a couple Seymour Duncan covers and spent some time today installing them.
Now, I've never done anything like this so I went out on the internets and did some looking around. If you're like me you know what this can be like -- you might be a meticulous person concerned with every detail and get frustrated with the conflicting information and advice you come across. I figured out what I needed to do (it's fairly simple, despite some of the poor descriptions of the process I found) and dove into it.
In the end, I got the covers soldered on, cleaned up the fretboard, polished the wood (what a difference!), and put it all back together.
I took some pics to document the process, but all I had to use was my cell phone. If any of you looked at the pictures I posted before you'll notice the difference: those were taken with an 8MP camera. So the before and afters don't really do it justice.
Anyway, here's a day in the life of my Guild S-100:
http://s178.photobucket.com/albums/w248/rockinwithdokken/Guild S-100 Pickup Cover Installation/
And if you want to see the gallery of pics from before:
http://s178.photobucket.com/albums/w248/rockinwithdokken/Guild S-100 1996/
I have yet to plug it into my amp, only the tuner so far. It worked fine for tuning and intonation. Cross your fingers as I plug in the Marshall.
Late!
PS: Any advice/system for pole height adjustment? or should I just experiment?
Update: I plugged in, played with the switches and settings on the guitar and amp, nothing new. Then at one point I got some feedback I don't remember getting before. Bad potting job maybe? My imagination? Hmmm...
