I'm having wiring troubles, please help!

[Shire]

Evening all,

I was wondering if anyone could help me with the wiring of my Fender Musicmaster please?

I have just purchased a new SD pikup for it but I am having problems with the wiring in general I think.

I think that the pots are touching the copper shielding in the body of the bass causing it to stop working intermittently. Also I can only get it to work if I lift the edge of the pickguard with the jack input on up slightly. I have tried taping over the copper shielding to see ig this is the problem but before I rip it out (as its a neat job) I just thought I'd get some other opinions

Here are some pics which will hopefully help you out. Please excuse the shoddy soldering, its my first attempt at something like this









Thanks in advance,
Matt

[2x18]

The middle legs on the 2 pots look to be touching each other so try to bend them apart slightly,and also signal side of the capacitor looks to be touching the pot casing.

I would suggest you ask a local Basschatter to help you out with your soldering, no offence intended!

Regards

Will.

[BOD2]

I think 2x18 might be right. It looks like that capacitor might be pushed onto the pot casing when you screw the pickguard down.

You could verify this by sliding a piece of paper under the capacitor so that the wire that is not soldered onto the pot casing cannot touch the casing.

As far as I can see the wiring looks ok - the "official Fender" wiring is slightly different on the tone pot but I don't think it would actually make any difference to the sound.

[steve-soar]

Nice bass.

[Shire]

[quote name='2x18' post='495556' date='May 22 2009, 09:01 PM']The middle legs on the 2 pots look to be touching each other so try to bend them apart slightly,and also signal side of the capacitor looks to be touching the pot casing.

I would suggest you ask a local Basschatter to help you out with your soldering, no offence intended!

Regards

Will.[/quote]

None taken! I have taken it over to Ped's house and we couldn't see a problem with it

The only part which might make contact when its reassembled is the orange part of the cap. This shouldn't make a difference though should it?


[quote name='BOD2' post='495580' date='May 22 2009, 09:28 PM']I think 2x18 might be right. It looks like that capacitor might be pushed onto the pot casing when you screw the pickguard down.

You could verify this by sliding a piece of paper under the capacitor so that the wire that is not soldered onto the pot casing cannot touch the casing.

As far as I can see the wiring looks ok - the "official Fender" wiring is slightly different on the tone pot but I don't think it would actually make any difference to the sound.[/quote]

Thanks for the reply, I'll try the cardboard trick and see if that makes any difference


[quote name='steve-soar' post='495944' date='May 23 2009, 11:47 AM']Nice bass.[/quote]

Thanks

[Shire]

Well it appeared that the earth connection on the input jack was touching the lead when it was inserted into the bass so a bit of bending sorted that out. I also re-soldered a couple of suspect joints just to be on the safe side.

I'll use it at our gig on thursday, but not without backup!

Thanks to everyone for your help