Category Archives: Tutorial

Patent Pending Dual Humbucker Switching Beats 3-way Switch

Posted on April 14, 2017 by admin

See  Preliminary Results of Patent Pending 20-way Dual Humbucker Switching

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Tutorial on Rewiring 2-wire Humbuckers to 4 + Shield

Posted on April 2, 2017 by admin

Click Here for Tutorial The mounts shown are 1/8″ thick Brazilian Cherry, sized to cover the holes in a pick guard made for full size humbuckers.

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Drilling Jig for Guitar Knobs

Posted on December 27, 2016 by admin

Before a better method was developed, as many as 240 guitar knobs were made with a ¼-20 threaded hole where the shaft hole would be.  The inside diameter of that hole is less than either 6mm or ¼ inch, and … Continue reading →

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Knob 236 – Acrylic & SG finish

Posted on October 23, 2016 by admin

Knob 236 With a body of 3/8″ maple over 1/4″ cherry, generic SG seals it, covered by alternating layers of acrylic paint (applied by finger w/ float medium, and small brush: including metallic antique copper, flame yellow, cadmium orange, bright … Continue reading →

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Knobs 233, 234 & 235: Brazilian Cherry w/ Painted Decorations

Posted on October 16, 2016 by admin

Brazilian Cherry is a hard, dense wood with grain going from dark chocolate to honey-caramel.  The end grain on the board from which these knobs were cut looks a bit like brown pin-stripe. All knobs have horizontal grain to enhance … Continue reading →

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Knobs 229-232: Painted Ash

Posted on October 16, 2016 by admin

Ash is a pale hardwood, which like Oak has hard layers alternating with softer, coarser, porous layers. Knob 229, with no paint, and shoe polish finish over generic superglue (SG), clearly shows this structure.  If water-based finish contacts the wood … Continue reading →

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General Equations for Humbucking Pairs

Posted on August 10, 2016 by admin

(c) 2016 Don Baker Combinations of pickups don’t tell you how to connect them together.  They only tell you how many you have to work with.  This article, General Equations for Combinations of Humbucking Pairs, provides development and equations for: … Continue reading →

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Humbucking Quad PPA – 10s, 100s, 1000s of tones

Posted on August 2, 2016 by admin

Excerpts from Provisional Patent Application Filed for Humbucking Quads So KK number of humbuckers can have: KK = 2, 3, 4, 5                                    humbucking pairs 2*KK = 4, 6, 8, 10                              humbucking pair tones KK = 1, 3, 6, … Continue reading →

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Lost cost guitars for grade and high schools?

Posted on July 12, 2016 by admin

I’m curious to know if there are any school systems out there which would like to license, for minimal cost, the right to make a simple version in their shop classes of the kind of guitar described here, to be … Continue reading →

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