Close your eyes and you can almost hear Ray Romano. Love the channel!

I'm building my first telecaster and have searched all over the place for wiring information. By far the most informative video I've seen yet. You simplified the whole process. Great video!

Hey man, this was a great video. I'm just getting started doing my own guitar mods so I've been watching quite a few videos like this. The way you explained this really helped me a lot, there were a couple things that weren't quite clicking for me but you explained them in a way that helped me understand everything much better. Thank you!

Why am I even watching this? I've done this a million times. His voice is so calming tho...

Thank you, Tim. I'm wiring my first electric guitar and this video was easy to follow.

Thanks for this tutorial tim,keep on rocking!

Best tutorial I've seen so far. Thank you! Plus, that pickguard looks so badass!

Thank you very much! You were the first guy who could tell me about grounding the bridge.

Excellent Video! Walked me right through the process. Thank you!

i love the way you re-use and re-claim. nothing beats that imo. yyou must have the most interesting guitar collection! cheers!

Thank you for the very informative and helpful video!

I'm new to wiring and I find your video clear and fun to watch. Thanks!

I'm about the re-wire my guitar came across your Video. Sodder on! thanks TIM.

Finally some good video about soldering and logic behind wiring. Thanks man 😊

Very cool guitar! Thanks for your knowledge 🤠

Thank you for finally doing this video, it is super helpful!

Second person I heard talking about the word solder while soldering... I loved the tutorial. Thanks!

Thanks man really good video I followed you now my guitar is back to life!!!!

Awesome video, thank you very much for making it.

Boy, I haven't seen that banded colored wire in decades! Brings back some memories. Thanks for sharing! : )

Great video for beginners and people wanting to learn more. At first it's like rocket science, then it becomes a lot easier to understand. Basic guitar and amp wiring is a fascinating subject and a great thing to know and understand. Advanced electronics, however, really is rocket science!

Thank you for the video!

Excellent video for guitar wiring for this newbie! Going to use it on Cigar Box Guitars ( CBG ).

Great informative video, thanks for making this! Just one thing I noticed: The way you were talking about how you do the shielding sounds like it isn’t really effective. It doesn’t really matter so much for your humbuckers, but if you ever want to coil split them, you’ll need a faraday cage to make it effective. It needs to be closed off on all sides. Shielding just the pickguard won’t be enough. Maybe you meant it that way anyway though.

Thanks great vid. Helped me out.

Thanks for the help your content is great

Well done! Thank you

Thank you. Very helpful.

Dude.......you answered all my q in like 3 min. Thank you

You’re a life saver! I’m making 2 guitars for a class and one needs wiring. Naturally, I had no idea how to do this and you made it super easy to understand! Absolutely wonderful tutorial

This is fantastic! You make it seem so easy for someone like me who knows next to nothing about wiring (I had to google what grounding meant lol). Thanks for this

“Pokery thing” is the best! I have to disagree with you son....you DO know what your talking about. You haven’t built as many guitars as you have and not know what your doing. I appreciate all your videos and enjoy watching all you do. Thanks Tim...great video, great job!!

That was strangely relaxing, especially with the tick tock of the clock in the background.

That hold down tool of yours is a great Idea Tim.

Plumbing solder has very harsh flux that can damage your components

Great video.

It's late and I should be in bed. wait. a Sway vid tomorrow is Saturday, *click*

The cooling probe or heat sync tool is a great idea!

Excellent Video! I Have A Humbucker That Also Has The Green Wire As The Hot Wire & Black As The Ground! That Can Be Confusing Because Other Humbuckers Have The Green For Ground & Black For Hot! Thank You! You Got Right To The Point! Well Done!

Thank you so much 😀

Best tutorial on youtube.

Okay, I’m second-generation lead guitarist/amp tech who works as an electrical engineer, I have a M.S. in Electrical Engineering. Audio Taper 250K (also known as A250K) for Volume Pot with a Single Coil setup, Linear Taper 250K (or _B250K)_ for tone pot with single coil pickups. Now, a humbucker is one single coil pickup half-wound one way, & another single coil pickup half-wound the opposite way, then they’re half wound together… the reverse-winding puts them out of phase which _’Bucks the Hum’ (so-to-speak)_ that being said, it’s two pickups which would normally be outfitted with 250K pots wound together & therefore a 500K is necessary. Sound decibels are on a logarithmic scale so, ideally Volume pots should be _Audio Taper (Logarithmic Taper)_ or _A250K/A500K_ They’re adjusting sound volume & sound decibels are *not linear* (like volume bars on a television) Sound decibels are a representation of Amplitude, which is the relative strength of sound waves (transmitted vibrations), which we perceive as loudness or volume. Decibels (dB), refer to the sound pressure level or intensity. Now, if a 500K Potentiometer is used in an exclusively single coil setup, all the audible change will all happen between numbers 1 & 4 (using a traditional numbered volume knob for this example). And I’m not saying a linear taper pots won’t or can’t work for volume control, I’m just saying an _Audio Taper_ pots do it better… now, with tone control, the scale is linear & there’s a bit of deviation in tone pots; which are _Linear Taper_ because tone level is measured on a linear scale…however, there is some deviations which exist; like the _Fender TBX Tone Control_ is a 250K stacked pot _Treble/Bass Expander_ I’ve heard it can be configured to totally cut treble in one direction or totally cut bass in the opposite direction… it’s got a _No-Load_ Detented Center Position which measured 1K _(a true 1-Meg Pot measures 10K)_

Thank You!

nice video easy to understand.

That's actually surprisingly simple! I'd had this idea to make a solderless guitar wiring system so that you don't have to solder when changing new pickups. I'd heard that it's just simply dropping a couple of terminal boards, but I'm not sure how it works. Maybe it could be a future video idea if you think you could give it a shot? Thanks in advance!

nice work

The best one ive seen yet... It would be nice if u showed us the switching part though this guitar dont need one

Awesome, thank you

You're a natural teacher. But I think I'll learn how to string my guitar before attempting installing a new pickup

Thank you for this video Brother! Great one, easy to understand and I did my wiring an solder quick after you teached me. Thanx! Just wonder, what is the value of the capasator you use here? Kind regards from Jonas in Sweden!

I've Waited For A Few Weeks Now Trying To Sort Out That Hot Green Wire & Ground Black Wire ?....Thank!

I think in the USA we say sodder, in Europe they say solder

Good one Tim. A couple of tips if you wish. Seymour Duncan's website has tons of wiring diagrams. Heat shrink tubing is cheap and works better than tape, and try tinning your wires instead of your lugs, you may find it easier.

Perhaps the size/gauge of the appropriate wire should be included in the video. Also, how does one know which tabs on the potentiometers go to what? Note: You are correct in that the "l" is not pronounced in "solder".

Excellent video! However I heard that you were only supposed to heat your solder up once in order to bond the flux to your wires. If you re-heat already bonded solder it won’t have as much flux in the next bond

Great video, Tim 👍. It's good to see (like in all your videos), a "real world" application of the theory. Most other channels will explain what to do, then jump-cut to a perfectly executed final product, often leaving most people more confused than before watching the vid 😬. I find with your vids you get your message across by showing us how to do it not just telling us. It makes the info stick much more better! (See my comments below on language!) 😈. Give a man a fish..... Also, yes I agree with what most people say....in the USA, you say "sodder" and "aluminum" etc, while we in the UK pronounce our words correctly!! (LOL!!) Seriously though, I don't think it matters so long as we all understand what the words mean, regardless of what you people have done to our beautiful language!!! Hahaha!!

Wooooowwww!!!! What a beautiful guitar!!!!!

Thank you.

Awesome!

thx for this video! one question which leader do you solder the capacitor to the ground when it doesn't have any indication what is the positive or negative?

Great video. I don’t have any spare wire on hand because I’m about to try this for the first time. Any recommendation on where I can buy wire and what gauge to use?

Yes!

Are there any videos on reverse polarity on humbucking pickups? I saw the Brian May guitar rundown and he said he had two switches for reversing polarity. Is the sound that different?

Nicely done Tim! Having done that routine, I know what a PITA it can be. I really like that "Poker/Prody/Thingy". I also like how you put a dab of hot glue to hold that wire which I assume gets grounded to the bridge. OH, and your pronunciation of Solder is correct as the "L" is silent. Anyway, great video bud........................... :)

Wow that was a realy good painting!!!😂

Tim, I see you use wire you have kicking around to wire up your guitars. I have a tonne of old cat 5 wire kicking around. (Computer network wire) its 4 pairs of 24 gauge wire. Do you think it would work well for wiring up the guitar including wires to custom pickups

What value, voltage and type of capacitor did you use? It look like a metal film cap from the video.

I made an electric guitar cello cuz of you!! Thanks mr sway

I appreciate the fact that you use repurposed wire. If you used shielded wire where would you use it specifically? Just the hot and not for ground? Or for everything?

Sir could you please tell me about the capacitor ,,,,its value ? Thanks !

Mr.Sway, After extensive research.... OK, 2 minutes reading comments. I say it's pronounced "welding".

What a tutorial. I truly appreciated it. Quick question, what about this capacitor you installed? I was checking my bass wiring and doesn't have one. Should I install one on mine? It actually got an annoying buzz I've been trying to kill.

hello, mine stopped working and i tried to fix it but failed, i dont know how to do it, seems really difficult for me, there are 3 wires coming from each pickup (red, black, green) and a yellow cable that goes to the plug; to make it simpler, could i connect those directly to the plug without the tone and volume knots and it would work? thanks a lot

Thank you

Hi, sir I got a zebra neck pickup from onlinestore, but the wires are too short to reach the pot. Is it possible to solder an extra length of wire so it can reach? All help appreciated

We pronounce it "sodder" down here in Texas as well!

BTW you're saying it correctly. Solder=SOD-ER. Thanks for the video!

Ok so I want to rewire my guitar and there are two humbuckers with three wires coming out, one is ground and one is + and one is - (i think) and i want to rewire it with one tone, one volume, thee way switch and a jack (les paul style) I can't find any diagrams, can you help?

When shielding,you need to use conductive adhesive with foil or copper if you dont use shielding tape specificall,y for guitar.

Aluminum tape works well too! :)

So, I know this video is old but I have a question. What do I do if I have a guitar that doesn't have a tone knob? I have a black squire bullet that I'm piecing together but there's not Tone potentiometer

Hey, I wanna extend a wire that has a hot and a ground wire in one cable/tube. I have to extend both separately, right? Thank you 🙂

Is there a demo video of this guitar being played?

Great video Tim. What gauge wire do you use / recommend?

Thanks for the video :) At 2.10 you say, "a grounding wire that I have already attached". What are you referring to there?

thanks for the video! out of curiosity what kind is the guitar?

I regular post on a video that mentions copper tape. It's a pound a roll at Poundland in the UK in the gardening section. A bargain.

Just got my new potentiometer today..i replaced the broken one and boom!! No sound at all..it has sound at first but then the sound just like turning on and off..is this might be wire problem? i'm really frustrated..

whats the heat protector clip thing called i cant find it

hi I would like to re-wire my cheaper guitar; the cables are a mess in there! haha Can I re-claim wire from old USB cables to use inside my guitar? when I cut 1 open; there are multiple wires inside the USB; but not sure if they're thick enough. Thank you!

Shout out from Massachusetts!!! 2024

sir i would like to ask what is the number of the capacitor thnk you

Great 👍

so I'm left wondering about wiring two pots one on the neck and the second for the bridge

If the wires on your pick up have no colors at all… what do you do?

Jeff Goldblum much?! 🤣 instant subscriber

How about the switch that's the hard part to figure out. You have the pickup hots the volume and tone knobs and ground can someone please explain HSS one tone one volume wiring to switch.

Where do you apply the tape/paint?

Hey, i have made everything exactly like you but when i tap my pickup it doesnt make sound, it just starts to buzz louder. what am i doing wrong please help :(

I use the exact soldering iron you do* lost my sponge for years the foind it?? Now I'm compete.