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I haven't tried what you said about the electrical tape, but I've tightened the nut, and tried holding the plate down while playing, the buzz decreases but theres still no sound.

with the jack out, like in the first pictures, have you tried pluging in a jack to see if it hits anything?

Oh sorry, I'll try that now

If I were you I'd cut the cable and solder it fresh. Strip it back carefully can go from there. You want to copy the setup it has now but cutting it and getting rid of the current will mean you definitely don't have a stray bit of shielding or whatever grounding the whole thing.

It goes in fine, doesn't seem to be hitting anything, it's just the wiring seems really shabby, like in those pictures it looks frayed.

James wrote:If I were you I'd cut the cable and solder it fresh. Strip it back carefully can go from there. You want to copy the setup it has now but cutting it and getting rid of the current will mean you definitely don't have a stray bit of shielding or whatever grounding the whole thing.

Cheers, I'm not sure I'll do a good job of that, so I'll probably take it to a guitar shop, I'm assuming it won't be too pricey if they can fix it?

yea, do what james said. it may be just really weakly connected or somfing.




you may end up needing to take the pickguard off and examine everything.

cool, well I'll take it in this week and see what happens, but cheers for all the feedback.

loomerz wrote:

James wrote:If I were you I'd cut the cable and solder it fresh. Strip it back carefully can go from there. You want to copy the setup it has now but cutting it and getting rid of the current will mean you definitely don't have a stray bit of shielding or whatever grounding the whole thing.

Cheers, I'm not sure I'll do a good job of that, so I'll probably take it to a guitar shop, I'm assuming it won't be too pricey if they can fix it?

I had a problem with a Squier strat where the jack nut had come loose and fallen inside the guitar. No wiring problems, just the thing fallen inside. I didn't realise you could just unscrew the jack plate and put it back on and it was under warranty throw a catalouge company (I think it was Index, maybe Argos) so I could get it repaired and then send them the bill so I didn't think too hard about it and did that. The shop charged £20. They were cunts, but I think even a good shop will be charging you a tenner or so. If you're a regular customer and they know you maybe they'd do it for free, it's one of those things that varies an awful lot.

If you have a soldering iron (or can borrow one for an afternoon) you can definitely do this yourself in 20 minutes even if you're completely unfamiliar with thos sort of thing. Assuming the only problem is at the jack it would take someone who already knew what they were doing only a couple of minutes to do this, it's a really small job but it seems intimidating when you're not used to it.

If you can get use of a soldering iron and there's enough slack in the wire to cut it and start again then someone will help you out here, post a little step by step with a picture or two. You might be thinking just take it to a shop and see what they say, maybe it'll only be a small charge, but being able to fix this sort of thing will help you in the long run.

loomerz wrote:kinda' irrelevant but yeah.



If anyone's got any other ideas or advice, lemme know.

irrelevant, shmirrelevant... that guitar is awesome looking.