THIS IS THE ONLY WIRING GUIDE YOU WILL EVER NEED TO BUY. Learn step by step how to completely wire Telecaster, Stratocaster, Esquire, and Les Paul guitars and all of the potentiometers, capacitors, switches, ground wires, hot wires, pickups, output jack, and bridge ground. Even if you dont have a Fender or Gibson, this guide will teach you how to wire a guitar with 1, 2, or 3 pickups. Also learn where you can get the complete wiring kits for dirt cheap, and learn essential soldering tips. Why not learn how to change your pickups, tone or volume controls, switches, and capacitors yourself? There are a ton of modifications you can do to your guitar for dirt cheap. This book will also show you some secret "hot rod" techniques that the pros use. This book will teach you how to do coil tapping, coil cutting, phase switching, series wiring, parallel wiring, bridge-on switching, mini toggle switching, varitone switching, mega switching, yamaha switching, blend pots, and much more !!!
Note: this book is in black & white. A full color PDF version is also included.
Customer Review: Good Resource
This is an excellent addition to any musician/garage-shop tinkerer's library. I will defer to the numerous better qualified reviewers' opinions regarding the technical aspects of this book. It is important to note that the book (including illustrations) is printed in black-and-white even though the text refers to colored wires or other colored notations. The author makes many of the illustrations available in color on a website referenced in the book. While this solution is sufficient, it can require an inconvenient time-out in order to check the online pics. Also, the printing process leaves something behind on some pages by cutting off the text prematurely. Regardless of these criticisms, anyone with even a little experience will find this an excellent go-by for modifying electric guitars.
Customer Review: Comprehensive, but thin on meaningful theory.
This is a fairly comprehensive work in that it covers some common designs. All in all it's a good starting place for seeing how to do certain things.
However, it suffers from poor imaging in that the aspect ratio is off for many pictures. While printed in black and white to keep costs down, it is generally annoying to read and I most certainly would have preferred that it be in color. While the availability of the online color pdf is a nice feature, having to download and use the color pdf to actually be able to follow most of the drawings is a real pain.
As a practicing electronic design engineer for 30+ years and a host on the GuitarNuts2 wiring site, what I find the most disappointing is that the functional descriptions of electronic components are based far more on folklore and magic rather than actual electronics theory. Examples range from "stronger" capacitors to impedance being resistance (only).
With a cleaning-up effort to make the pictures acceptable to human perspectives, to make the wiring diagrams translatable to black and white (although I suspect that most would rather pay for the color print version to avoid the unnecessary eyestrain since the B&W version is really only an index to the online pdf), and the addition of both meaningful simple component descriptions as well as technically accurate ones, this effort would be well on its way to being a necessary addition to any guitar wiring library.
As has been posted, this work will enable one to see some things, but not enable them to really "see" much at all. It's a fisherman and not a teacher.
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