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Thanks, by the way, for the schematic. Amps in general do tend to get hot, but I don't see why this one should be getting any hotter than, say, a battery-operated clock radio. There's got to be an error in the wiring in there somewhere, I just don't know where. As for clips, I'd upload to...

I agree, this is a great idea for a thread, and I wish I had something more useful to contribute to it. I stumbled onto this nasty fuzz a few years ago in an apartment where I couldn't crank my amp up. It's just a Peavey Strat copy overdriving the crap out of a little Radio Shack mixer...

I don't know anything about amplifier circuits, so there's nothing I can really offer you in terms of advice. But I would like to hear some sound samples.

Most people I've seen use aluminum, but I've occasionally seen stainless steel (see here and here). I have a homemade one out of a regular steel welding sheet from lowes, but I wouldn't recommend it, as in the back of my mind I'm a little worried about it rusting. Sheet aluminum is just as...

Fantastic, thanks. More than enough to keep me busy for a long while.

Not so much just the strength of the signal, but the other qualities that are harder to quantify. Timbre and tone and so forth. It's not like you're just getting a straight sine wave out of the pickup. Even at the same thickness, different woods are going to sound different. Try two...

Fair enough. I'd be interested in reading up on the subject; could you recommend a good starting reference?

I agree about releasing the hounds. Nobody wants to enter into a debate on how wood influences sound because there are a billion different opinions on the subject. The reason there's not a lot of hard data is because every piece of wood is different from every other piece of wood. But here's...

Nice. Does the orange part near the neck joint continue around the sides, or are they just black?

Could you post diagrams for either of these things? I'm wondering if your mid-scoop is just a tone control with a treble bleed. Remember, passive controls can only take away from the signal, and too many crowded into one instrument could probably be enough to sap the whole thing. If all of...

Yeah, I'm assuming (hoping?) that fretboard's taped over. I vote to leave the flames on the neck. I've always though that far too little attention is paid to the backs of guitars. If you end up hating it, you can always sand back down to the wood. It's not like you're opposed to refinishing.

The Mean 90s are supposed to be p-90's (single coils) that fit into humbucker cases. I'm not aware of them making a humbucker version.

I don't know, man; you do a pretty convincing impression: Now that I think about it, I never knew what the "T" was for... Moving on... the problem with an SPDT is that it only switches one circuit. If you hook both pickups to it, I believe it will hook them together, like having the pickup...

In order not to put more holes in the pickguard, most people I know use push-pull pots. It's basically a way to hide the switch; it's just a pot that has a switch attached to it. You flip the switch by pulling the knob up and pushing it back down. I'm putting two of them on my current project.

You might be interested in doing a coil rolloff: http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=2h_2v_3w_2sas The way it works is that the two knobs which are currently your tone controls become controls for the second coil of each pickup. When the knobs are all...

The hotrails that people have suggested is a humbucker that fits in a single-coil slot, I believe, if you just want to try replacing one.

Here's an issue I hadn't thought of: let's make sure we're dealing with hum. Is the noise from your pickups always the same note, or are we just talking about the guitar sounding nasty when you've got the volume turned up? Do you hear it when you're not playing or when you're playing loudest...

If you mostly record at home, I'd go with a combo of some kind. It'll probably be cheaper and take up less space. I wonder if you'd do well with one of those modeling amps, like the valvetronix series from vox. You'd at least have a large variety of tones to fiddle with and see what you like...

Yes, it should feel easier to play. The strings are closer to the fretboard, so you don't have to press them down as far. What kind of noise are you hearing? If the strings are too low, they'll buzz on the frets, but you'll mainly hear that coming from the guitar itself. You also don't want...

Fair enough. Better in a studio setting. I was thinking some of the hardwood-flooring finishes out there might work ok, but these things tend to be made from softwood, so I bet you'd still get cracking and so forth with any abuse.