Guitar Wiring Repair & Mods in Redding, CA
Broken wires, cold solder joints, rewires, and mods like coil splits, 50s wiring, and treble bleeds.
Most guitar electrical problems come down to wiring: a broken ground, a cold solder joint, or a wire that came loose. Those cause hum, crackles, cut outs, and dead pickups, and they’re usually quick to find and fix.
We also do mods. Coil splits, series and parallel, phase switches, 50s wiring, treble bleeds, master volume and tone setups, and rewiring the selector so you get the sounds you want. If you have a prewired harness or caps you want to try, we’ll install them.
If a previous owner left the cavity a mess, a clean rewire or full harness replacement makes the guitar reliable again.
Bring it in and tell us what it’s doing or what sound you want. Simple fixes are quick, and we’ll quote bigger mods after a look.
Wiring & Mods services
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Rewire
Rewire the controls with fresh wire and solder so everything works and stays reliable.
Sounds like: rewire guitar, wiring is a mess, previous owner messed up wiring, guitar wiring bad
Full detailsFull harness replacement
Replace the whole control harness with new pots, switch, jack, and wire.
Sounds like: new wiring harness, replace all electronics, whole harness, everything crackles
Full detailsPrewired harness install
Install a prewired harness you bought and connect your pickups to it.
Sounds like: install prewired harness, drop in harness, bought a harness, prewired pickguard
50s wiring conversion
Rewire to 50s style so the tone stays clear as you roll the volume down.
Sounds like: 50s wiring, guitar gets muddy turning down, vintage wiring, les paul 50s wiring
Full detailsModern wiring conversion
Switch to modern wiring for a more consistent volume and tone interaction.
Sounds like: modern wiring, undo 50s wiring, standard wiring
Cloth wire conversion
Rewire with vintage style cloth push back wire for a cleaner, period correct cavity.
Sounds like: cloth wire, push back wire, vintage wire
Shielded wire replacement
Replace damaged braided shielded wire to cut noise in the control cavity.
Sounds like: braided wire, shielded wire broken, noisy wiring
Ground wire repair
Fix a broken ground wire so the guitar stops humming and buzzing.
Sounds like: loud hum, buzz stops when i touch strings, ground wire broken, bridge ground
Full detailsGround loop fix
Rework grounds to one clean point so the guitar is quiet.
Sounds like: ground loop, guitar hums, constant buzz, 60 cycle hum
Full detailsCold solder joint reflow
Reflow dull, cracked solder joints that cause cutting out and crackles.
Sounds like: guitar cuts in and out, intermittent signal, bad solder joint, crackles when i move
Broken wire repair
Find and fix a broken wire so the dead pickup or control works again.
Sounds like: wire came off, broken wire, no sound, one pickup dead
Electronics DeoxIT cleaning
Clean pots, switches, and the jack with DeoxIT to clear up scratchiness and crackles.
Sounds like: deoxit, clean electronics, scratchy controls, crackly guitar
Tone cap replacement
Replace a bad tone cap so the tone knob works again.
Sounds like: tone knob does nothing, tone cap bad, tone not working
Tone cap value change
Change cap values to shift what the tone knob does, like .022 for a smoother roll off or .047 for darker.
Sounds like: .022 cap, .047 cap, tone too muddy, change tone cap
Paper-in-oil cap upgrade
Install paper in oil tone caps for a vintage style setup.
Sounds like: paper in oil caps, pio cap, vintage tone cap, bumblebee caps
Treble bleed install
Add a treble bleed so the guitar keeps its highs when you turn down the volume.
Sounds like: treble bleed, guitar gets muddy when turned down, lose highs turning down
Coil split wiring
Wire humbuckers to split into single coil sounds with a push-pull or mini toggle.
Sounds like: coil split, single coil sound from humbucker, split coil, humbucker to single coil
Full detailsCoil tap wiring
Wire a tapped pickup so you can switch between full and reduced output.
Sounds like: coil tap, tapped pickup, lower output option
Series/parallel wiring
Add series or parallel switching for fatter or brighter combinations.
Sounds like: series parallel, series wiring, parallel humbucker, fatter sound
Full detailsPhase switch wiring
Add an out of phase switch for that thin, hollow Peter Green style sound.
Sounds like: out of phase, phase switch, peter green mod
Varitone install
Install a Varitone style notch filter selector for a range of preset tones. Quoted after a look.
Sounds like: varitone, notch filter, es 345 varitone
Master volume conversion
Wire one volume knob to control all pickups.
Sounds like: master volume, one volume knob, single volume
Master tone conversion
Wire one tone knob to control all pickups.
Sounds like: master tone, one tone knob, single tone
Independent volume wiring
Give each pickup its own volume so you can mix them.
Sounds like: separate volumes, independent volume, each pickup own volume
Pickup selector reconfiguration
Rewire the selector so the pickup positions give the combinations you want.
Sounds like: change switch positions, neck and bridge together, rewire selector, add 7 sounds
Full detailsBridge pickup tone control mod
Rewire a Strat so a tone knob controls the bridge pickup and tames its harshness.
Sounds like: bridge pickup tone, strat bridge too bright, tone knob on bridge