We have several articles that I’ve written that discuss fretting & setup, and some that cover pickup & wiring topics. The fretting articles have been on the site all along, but the wiring articles have never been on the site. This has now been rectified, and you can access them here.
These were written for Premier Guitar Magazine in 2007-2008, so we’ve put the appropriate magazine covers for the various months, and clicking them will take you to a hi-res PDF of that month’s column. You’ll find that they cover many arcane areas of wiring, but there are always more, so there are many more articles like these that I’d like to write. Illustrating them is the hard part, though I love illustrating in the computer. I’m marginally good at it, but slow, so it takes me forever to do an article that has a lot of illustrations.
One thing I always found too, when writing the column for PG, was that what would at first seem like a simple concept to discuss would grow in the telling, to quote J.R.R.Tolkien, so that what I thought I could cover in a single column would often take 2-4 columns to get through. 800 words is just not enough to get much information across.
Also, regarding these columns, there could be a mistake here or there – I tried to research everything carefully and proofread carefully, but humans goof, as I did when I put the wrong number of turns of wire for a Strat pickup and Jason Lollar emailed me to let me know. Oops! So you may find something here or there that I got wrong, and if so I hope you’ll bring it to my attention. Of course, I don’t have the ability to edit these PDFs, they’re as-published and were supplied by the magazine; but future tech articles could benefit. Never too late to learn, even when you’re an old fart like me…
Enjoy!
