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The Online Guitar Store - Guitar Electronics Understanding Wiring and Diagrams: Learn step by step how to completely wire your electric guitar
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List Price: $14.95
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Manufacturer: TIM SWIKE
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 780
EAN: 9780615165417
ISBN: 0615165419
Label: TIM SWIKE
Manufacturer: TIM SWIKE
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: 2007-09-19
Publisher: TIM SWIKE
Release Date: 2007-09-19
Studio: TIM SWIKE
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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.
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Summary: Good Resource
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Comprehensive, but thin on meaningful theory.
Comment: 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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Summary: Informative but
Comment: This is a pretty good book for understanding the basics of Tele, Strat and LP/SG wiring. It really would be a much better book if the diagrams were in color (there is a website link for the book that has the diagrams in color). Some of the technical info is not described clearly or quite correctly; there are component values listed in the parts list that don't match the value of the components in the diagrams. There are a few pages where the type has run off the page making those pages difficult to read. At $17, the book should have been better proofed and edited. I would not recommend this book; there are so many of us guitar geeks out there and so many great websites with the material explained more clearly, correctly and with better diagrams
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Summary: Guitar Electronics Understanding Wiring and Diagrams
Comment: WARNING. Although this is well written and laid out, it is printed in black and white and not colour as the preview shows making it difficult to follow coloured wiring looms.
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Summary: Exhaustively detailed and comprehensive! A must have!
Comment: This is a fabulous book. I have been building and customizing electric guitars for years and I got my money's worth in the first 20-30 pages of this book. It really expanded my understanding of different wiring and switch configurations as well as the use of capacitors to adjust the tone. Futhermore, I have much better understanding of how all the parts come together to create various sounds from vintage to modern, bell-like to growl. This book is overflowing with useful diagrams and photos as well. If you build, or customize guitars, this is an invaluable resource.
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