ok a loooong a** time ago she was a typical candy apple red squire strat
this was it i kid u not (pic taken 2004 ish)
I was also Vaughn crazy at the time (2005 ish)
when i was 14ish i was curious as to how guitars worked so i ripped it apart, and made a wireing diagram on scratch paper b4 i pulled anything, when i put it back together i added a zebra stripe style to the pickgaurd with my model paint and a black trim line to the headstock (didnt turn out well)
(taken early 2006)
after a while the pickups gave out and it sat for a few months nothing but a noiseless shell, untill my uncle who runs a sound studio /repair shop came across some anchient early 70's EMG SA pickups in one of his closets i had mentioned to him i like emg's and that my strat needed redoing so he gave them to me as a christmas/birthday present, and i wired them up, this is about the same time i got my Ibanez RG 570 so last christams-ish
(christmas 200 cool
Recently ive been feeling adventureus so i decided it needed to be refinished. Haven't painted much in my life but i knew if i was gonna make it look right it had to be spray paint so i bought a few cans and set to work useing some techniques i had seen on tv and the internet on how to make a sunburst and a bit of beginers luck u have this:
(September First 2009)
it looks better in person, now the issue is when i origanaly wired up the SA's only the neck and bridge pickups worked, if it was set to anything other than bridge orneck it was a kill and made no sound at all, and t further confuse the matter the first tone knob acted as a 2ndary volume for the neck pickup.
Problem:
after i put it all back together after the paint i notesed if i eased the master volume back to 80% or lower the mid pickup would work again and when the volume was at full it generated an odd but interesting sounding distortion when played, but makes almost no trebble range, the third tone knob has yet to do anything. I am stumped on this, i checked all the connections there all good, double checked the diagram, its wired right so..... idk wtf happened to her (but it sounds rlly kewl with that oddball distortion when playing a rythem)
