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Come on folks..there has to be someone here that has pictures they can post of there pickguard with the wireing showing...I need this to hookup everything correctly..PLEASE...

Other than maybe switching pickups, I think this one is unmolested.

Just a regular 360?

Then again.......he did ask for a picture of "a pickguard with the wiring showing". Having tried this, I found white, black or gold to look a lot nicer.

teb wrote:Then again.......he did ask for a picture of "a pickguard with the wiring showing". Having tried this, I found white, black or gold to look a lot nicer.

Wow... did you make that yourself? Looks interesting, but also quite weird!

That was just the test fit, to make sure all the holes were in the proper places. Then it got baked in the oven for about an hour (removes built-up stress from machining plexiglass) and back-painted white. I'm not a big fan of opaque white plexi, so I make my own from clear, bevel and polish the edges (which does some interesting things with the light) and then back-paint them. Here are the finished guards.

What's the extra knob doing, Todd?

Volume pot for the middle pickup. The mid is wired directly to the second jack on its own circuit.

Oh, that's an interesting set up. But you must use two amps all the time in order to use all the pickups? No matter, it seems very versatile.

I, too, prefer the look of the back-painted clear plexi.

Usually, I use two Vox Mini-Stacks, which works great - one Jangle-boxed and one straight or chorused. If I'm using one of my Traynors (one channel) I plug the JB and neck/bridge circuit into the -6 DB input jack (adjusting volume with the JB gain) and the straight middle pickup into the 0 DB input jack. It says in the manuals to only use one amp input at a time, so I called Traynor to ask if it would damage the amp? The tech told me that all it would do is average the two and that it would be fine. So far, so good. I love my JangleBox, but sometimes I want just a little bit more low end out of it, so I can blend in some un-boxed middle pickup as needed. I also have a passive mini-mixer that will blend them to a single input, but it eats something like 8-10 DB in the process (the price you pay for not needing a battery) so I don't use it much.

teb wrote:Then again.......he did ask for a picture of "a pickguard with the wiring showing". Having tried this, I found white, black or gold to look a lot nicer.

Why am I not surprised??

teb wrote:That was just the test fit, to make sure all the holes were in the proper places. Then it got baked in the oven for about an hour (removes built-up stress from machining plexiglass) and back-painted white. I'm not a big fan of opaque white plexi, so I make my own from clear, bevel and polish the edges (which does some interesting things with the light) and then back-paint them. Here are the finished guards.

Cutting these must be quite dificult? How hard is the polishing? I don't have the tools for doing things like these but it's good to know anyway!

Thanks everybody...the 2 photos that you posted..did they have the ROS...thanks again..I think the 370 wireing is the same..correct guys? Larry

The 370 has the middle and neck pickups wired together to the neck switch terminal.

Then there's the "iiipopes mod"...