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Different people understand the same thing different ways, some can visualise the issue while others take the text and have a litteral understanding. By giving the full range of teachings everyone will get from it what they need.
What are all those controls doing? There seems to be a 3-way switch like on a Gibson, plus a 3-way rotary, plus two push-pulls. What does each do?
It's like writing out Louie Louie in staff notation, it's an exercise in snobbery, not sharing.
Going in the opposite direction, here's how the late, great Hal Robinson used to draw Harley-Davidson chopper wiring diagrams for hobbyists;
http://i68.tinypic.com/2e654x5.jpg
As for it being "snobbery", what a ridiculois thing to say.
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Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
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I like proper schematics too, rather like staff notation it's reliable, repeatable and leaves no room for ambiguity, but only for those who speak the language.
You have to accept that a pre-wired harness may be handled more than normal for some guitar wiring. Neatness helps prevent tangles and ensures the end user doesn't put undue stress on the joins. or get controls in the wrong place. Many les paul harnesses are almost self supporting which makes it much easier for the end user
Also, you have to factor in trouble shooting because it won't work perfectly for ever user every time, some will simply fuck it up and turn to you for help. If you use coloured wire, neatly routed, which matches a coloured wiring diagram it all becomes much simpler for you and the end user to remote diagnose.
You have suggested already that you will encourage customers to take a pic before wiring as a reference, that becomes much easier with a bit of neatness and colour coding
There are many ways to do it already suggested in this thread, but i suggest you compare yours to other pre-wired harnesses available and the guidance they offer customers. Yours is admittedly more complex, which is why you need to get this right.
You almost have to make it "idiot proof", that's maybe a bit insulting, but have a think where your customers may struggle. As someone who has lost a significant amount of their detail vision in the last 2 years I would need colours, not just like them for the sake of it.
None of this needs to cost you much extra money in parts, and once you have done a few and figured out the best order or operations it really wont take any longer either
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I'm going to do all the shielded wire first then see how it turns out. I'm hoping that'll clear it out enough to avoid too many colours. I want to keep it as colour free as possible to avoid confusion with the colour matching from the loose wires and the pickup wires. But it is a balancing act of doing that and being able to offer enough assistance to the user gathering their bearings around the harness.
I have roughly 10 page pictured step by step guides that I provide with all my harnesses, and as of yet I've had no customers who have been unable to solve their own issues, so I'll certainly be doing one with these.
*but*
I've now read the blog posts and have 2 conclusions.
Firstly, that's an interesting and ambitious design and I'd be quite interested in how it turns out. What price will you be selling them at?
Secondly, I can completely understand why you might want to offer a wiring harness to accompany the pickups - lots of wiring options might scare off some potential pickup buyers. Not sure how you could offer a pre-wired harness to match all the possible bodies and existing cavity / contol hole combinations though?
So, watching with a lot more interest now!
So, what can we FB folk do to help? If you want to send me the parts (3 x pots, 2 x switches, 1 x socket) I'll have a go to see just how neat I can make it, whilst maintaining the 'ease of installation' brief. If I succeed, you are welcome to use it
Rift Amplification
Brackley, Northamptonshire
www.riftamps.co.uk
Ignoring issues about the wiring - is providing access to every tone available actually useful? I did a "Jimmy Page" wiring on a LP build with 4 push/push pots a while back. It gave a wonderful variety of sounds, but I could never remember in a live situation which pot to push and which to pull to get the tone I wanted.
Keep it simple. Pick your favourite two or three tones and make it easy to find them.
Three to five combos is useful. More is often less usable.
I'm intending on doing harnesses for LP and Strat at the moment. I'll cross the bridge of what else to offer as it is requested.
The point of the thread was literally just 'are you capable?'. This is a first and very rough prototype. Thanks for the offer, but I still have much to iron out in the design before I even think about presentation yet. When I do get to that stage, we'll see if I need to take you up on the offer . Here's a pretty Tele harness to combat the amateur look of the first.