stop apologizing man this is the greatest video i found to teach me how to wire up my own guitar (im beginner by the way...)

10 Years Later: Still one of the best, clear cut videos! Thank *insert god of your liking* that it's still on here!

Probably the 5th time in the last few years I've come back here to refresh. I don't do much wiring, and I hate to waste my time when experts like this are on UKposts. Thanks, again!

One of the best, most informative and clear cut vids i have ever seen. Are you listening to your standing ovation? Greatest teacher you are. Thanks

Ground wire should connect from the bridge to the back of the volume pot. The ground on the back of the volume pot should connect to the ground on the output jack (the pole that touches the shaft of the cable). The last ground connection is made by bending the pole on the pot to the back of the pot. No wire is required. Solder the pole to the back of the pot and make sure your connections are solid. I hope this answers you question. Good luck and thanks for watching my video.

Man stop apologizing you’re doing us more than a favor and I’m so grateful you took the time to help us newbie’s

7 years after being made, video is still as relevant as ever. Thank you!

3 Guitar repairmen couldn't fix my EVH Frankenstrat.. All I did was watch your video, and ran a razor blade between the Pot and the Hot input. The granule of solder was soo soo small the naked couldn't see it but it was touching ( causing a horrible noise when strumming or every note played. It's fixed!!! Thank you for this fine detailed video...

For any tremolo style guitar, the wire is usually soldered to the spring claw that the springs hook up to in the back of the guitar. This will ground your wiring to the tremolo. If it were a fixed bridge such as a Les Paul, there would be a wire coming into the wiring cavity from one of the bridge pieces. Good luck with your project, and thanks for checking out my video.

I usually don't comment, but this is probably one of the best explanation videos on guitar wiring. Suggestion: You should make an updated version with better video quality for those who have a hard time seeing

Helping my brother wire a Frankenstrat replica. You're a boss, boss!

You keep apologizing. This is one of the better straight forward videos I have come across. Well done.

I have been waiting all my life to get my own EVH set up! Your video was just what I needed to complete my project! Thanks so much for your time!

This was awesome, re-wiring an old guitar as a fun project for myself and couldn't make sense of how to get it all hooked up (previously had 3 pickups, 2 tone and 1 volume). This gives me the confidence to just go buy what I need now!

Thanks so much for posting this video no more paying $40-$85 for somebody else to do this when it’s such a simple thing to do to begin with!

this is probably the best explanation of a straight wiring I have ever seen

Thanks very much for taking the time to make these videos. They are very helpful to learn about soldering.

This was just what i needed. You described every step of the way and now i understand what to do . Thanks for taking the time to make this it really helped me out !

Thanks you inspired me to wire mine for the 1st time! This was the most helpful video I could find. Keep up the good work!

Thanks for showing this with the simple EVH setup, it's exactly what I was looking for. Cheers man.

Thank you. I watched this and installed a Dimarzio Blaze in one of my ole 7 strings. Great tutorial

This video is fantastic. Exactly what I was looking for. Everything is explained in a way that beginners understand what's going on. Thanks.

i put off for so long thinking id mess up but finally went and bought a soldering iron and did it myself. thanks alot.

I just discovered your channel and this is a fantastic tutorial. Legs 1 and 2 of the pots are interchangeable between hot and output (if there just one volume it doesn’t really matter, whereas if there’s two volumes like in a Les Paul, it makes a big difference)

Brilliant concise video.Straight to the point and no waffle.l"ll try this on my box guitar tomorrow.

thx man i finaly finished my franenstrat build

Thanks you so much dude. Building a 5150 tribute and was terrified of doing the electrics but you made it so clear and easy to understand. Brilliant video. Can't thank you enough!

Great video mate, thanks for taking the time. I got a problem now with a ground and its nearly got me beat, but will have another go.

Excellent tutorial. Well done. This will save me time and $$ on my EVH build. Great job!

Straight outta the gate: proper soldering iron care. I knew this was gonna be an excellent video 🤌🏽🤌🏽 and it was

As I had not done any wiring for quite sometime, this helped me a lot. I wish other vids were as simple to follow as this one! Cheers.

Thanks for a first class lesson, I have just updated the wiring on my Gibson LP junior 🙏🏻 works brilliant 🙏🏻

Man Thanks heaps for this vid.It helped me out of a tricky situation with a detatched wire on one of my volume pots. I am a Guitarist who knows nothing about the electronic insides of my Guitar. You explain everything so that even I can understand it. Cheers Mate.

Awesome and easy to follow tutorial. This is a huge help. Thanks you!

bro this is so helpful to me. I'm building a frankenstrat and I'm at the wiring stage and this is literally exactly what i was looking for

Hands down best vid on simple soldering. Thnx

Thank you very much for this video - finally got my old bass working!

Inever soldered in my life, and... thanx to u I've fixed my bass last night. BIg Big fat thank you.

Thanks...Needed this vid for rewiring my LP Jr. Nicely done!

This was very helpful explaining the basics. Thanks!

I'll be using this video tomorrow in conjunction with the wiring diagrams that came with my pick-up. With me and thanks for the helpful vid!

Thank you for posting this, It's nice to see a video where you are told why this wire goes to this lug and that wire goes to that lug rather than the usual this goes here this goes there without any explanation as to why. Thanks again, very informative video, much appreciated.

Great video Buddy! I recently picked up an old Kramer ZX10 from a garage sale and this is exactly what I needed to repair the mess of wiring someone did to it!

Fantastic!! many many thanx..you pulled me out of a right hole!! just finished working on a mini fender style guitar for a friends 3yr olds birthday!! all sorts of problems with the wiring but thanx to you it's sorted! your'e awesome dude!! cheers!! clear well presented vid!! best on youtube you made it easy!!

Brilliant, easy to follow and very constructive too, plug in and go... thanks for this video.

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!! what i needed. Thank you for the time you took to make this video. Guitar now working with a new volume control. V pleased.

Awesome video. Exactly what I was looking for (the VH setup). Thanks so much.

Just gotta say props dude. This helped me so much. I just rebuild an Ibanez Destroyer with a piece of a Fender Strat with the bolt on set up, and finished it off with an ESP Kirk Hammett neck. The Destroyer was broken at the neck. But I put in an EMG H4 for the bridge, no neck pickup. No tone, no switch, just a volume and a pickup. This helped a lot. Thats how my jackson is set up too, but with a Seymour Duncan Dimebucker. But thank you for the video.

Great video. I'm the worlds worse when it comes to this kind of work. Wasn't even going to try it but you made it look so easy. I did my guitar, it worked perfectly. Thanks.

Today I found my old jazz archtop pickup wires had come off. This video let me know where to re-solder them. Thank you very much.😃

Very informative. Made wiring up my strat super easy. 10/10

Brilliant simple video. I like the effort you made of the soldering mock up board. Made it easy to see the whole picture. I like the error you made, gives that human touch, not so 'i'm so perfect approach' Brilliant just subscribed . do not want to miss anything else

Thanks for the comment and the great info. Always willing to learn new techniques.

Excellent tutorial. Clear and concise. Thank you.

Thanks, this was so helpful and now I can finally finish my 5150 replica!

It was very kind of you to post this video.i worked in the wood shop at Hamer. i never went near the finishing dept. Cool fact. Mark Durante Guitarist for KMFDM approved every finished guitar in the 1990s. and he final set up half of them. check out my podcast LIVE METAL PUPPETS -comedy and metal.

thank you so much my dad doesnt live with me anymore so now i have to learn everything myself and this helped so much

Just amazingly simply explained. Very Good. Best regards from Portugal

Man it totally worked out! i checked the wiring and like you said the pole on the pot was loose, not well soldered to the back of the pot, so soldered it well and that's it, when i turned down the volume it kills the sound. Thanks a lot for the video and your helpful comments dude. I'll suscribe, have a nice day

This video helped me tremendously. Thank you so much.

Thanks! You did good. This video is perfect for students.

thank you so much for this video. i recently set up a guitar like this but i had a guitar tech install the pickup because i was having it set up anyways. I got the guitar back and the pickup sounds dead. I'm not sure what the problem is but now i feel more confident about opening the guitar up, identifying the problem and trying to correct it. so thanks again!

One single humbucker , my favorite and all I need. Cool video 👍

Dude. This is the best video for a simple pickup wiring on YT. Never done this before but after watching your video I was confident. So I installed a pickup and a potentiometer all by myself for the first time and it works like a charm. Finally. ^^ Unfortunately your not uploading videos anymore. Three pickups and a 5-way-switch? ^^ Anyway. Thx.

This video really helped me. Thanks!

love your vids man its helping me understand so much on how to fix my problem

Ive always been so intimidated by the thought of pickup soldering so ive been using emgs because of the somderless system. Ive got this single humbucker strat i wanna do a single Dimarzio D-Activator in tho and I figured this would be a great opportunity to finally learn sonce its only one pickup to get started. This video was crystal clear and im like 100 confident i can do it now so thank you! Its so much more simple than I thought.

Thank you for the video. It helped me greatly

This is very helpful, thank you!

You are a great teacher. Thank you!

I appreciate the video, because it is really simple and easy to understand for most people. However, there is no such thing as a guitar "input" jack. There is only an OUTPUT jack. The signal goes OUT from the guitar "IN" to the amp. Also, do not ever blow on your hot solder joints! It will cause cold solder joints and bad connections, even if it does "feel like" a solid connection. There is absolutely no reason to blow on it anyway, as solder hardens very fast, almost as fast as you can blow on it. This being said, I do appreciate you taking your time to share your knowledge, there is a lot to be learned here. Thank you! P.P. Some of that hummm you may be hearing from your guitar is normal if it is single coil, but some of that hummm could be from blowing on your solder joints and creating bad connections or grounding.

best tutorial i've seen! thanks. not even a selector switch on this, just basic wiring. what better place to start to learn? thank you!

Great Job!! Thank you for posting

Thankyou finally so clear you cant not understand exactly what to do. Thanks man im so glad i found this

Awesome explanation! Thank you!

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks. Subbed.

This video was very helpful. Thanks!

Excellent Video Giving my strat a rebirth after this !

worked perfect!!!! thank you man, greets from chile!

You are correct. The ground to the bridge on most tremolos is located on the spring claw in the back of the guitar. Make sure you get a good connection with solder and Don't Blow On Your Solder to cool it! Thanks for you question and good luck with your project.

Good clear instructions, thank you.

best instructional vid i have ever seen

Thank you for this video. I’m making a Tom Delonge style strat and this was just what I needed. Good instructions

this video is solid gold!!!

Thank you, great tutorial!

omg I understood so much stuff thank you for such a good video

Thanks dude. Totally informative. Good job.

Awesome tuition

thanks dude, this is my... 3rd guitar that ive built and wiring :D this video helped heaps

Thanks man! just used this one now to wire up EVH Bumble Bee with Dimarzio SS

amazing video, thanks for sharing!!!

Good knowledge about the ground wire

I absolutely appreciate you showing this. What are your thoughts on pre tinning your wires? And I didn't notice you using any type of flux,,,that also could be the culprit for popping off? please keep them going. Very informative...

This is a great video! I'd love to see you do one for a 5 way super switch and 2 humbuckers. I'm about to try this on my strat but all the videos for super switch wiring are crap

Awesome video man! Thanks!

Excellent vid...

greatly appreciate this video

I was always told not to blow on a solder joint because it might cause a "Cold" solder joint.

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Thanks! Very useful and well explained.