Guitar Electronics Understanding Wiring and Diagrams: Learn step by step how to completely wire your electric guitar

Very easy to follow for basic guitar wiring.

This is a must have book. Has all the info you need and more for different styles of sound. Simple to understand. It is a YES.

Very basic wiring diagrams also not in color you have to use internet. Link for color pictures just OK not the best l have used

Basic guitar wiring 101, simple yet informative.

I've been an electronics engineer my whole life and am no stranger to a soldering iron and components. However, the various rats-nests I've found when I open various control panels on older guitars makes me want to pay that young kid guitar tech $75 just so I don't have to deal with it. Tim's book isn't going to make those experiences go away, but he does give you plenty of pictures, diagrams/schematics, and alternative designs to give you the confidence to rip out someone else's rat-nest and install your own Jarvik 7 into that guitar! If you repair your own guitars as a hobby or out of necessity (like how I started), you need this book in your shop!

1st of all, I am not given to writing reviews, but I use them extensively to make choices.This book has far too many positive reviews for what it actually is.1) Instructions tell you to follow by colored wires: the pics are printed black & white. You can download a color PDF file, but what is the point of buying this book (let alone publishing it) if color is a necessary component to the information? I was aggravated right off the bat.2) Little care is given to the sizing of the pictures. Some are elongated horz. or vert., some squeezed. Inconsistent graphical layout is amateur at best.3) Incomplete sentences due to text running off the edge of the page on page 101, another grievous layout error. You will be paying for the following paragraph "On the next page is a basic single pickup wiring diagram for telecasters using one pickup. this with either the bridge or neck pickup. The pickup will have a volume and tone control. plenty of good sounds with this setup.If you want to play around with the tone, you can or weaker capacitor. Ading a stronger capacitor sends more treble to the ground, and giv bass tones. Note: there are many ways to wire pickups to the pots. This is just one examp "4) Aside from enough publishing errors that, to my sensibilities, mean that the book is not ready to be published, instructions are shown on how to add a Varistor switch to a guitar, and a Les Paul is used for the example. The drilled hole given as the example is nothing less than a hack job, I hate to say it, but it is. I would faint if I saw a tech do that to my guitar. Besides its being really bad advice in the first place, if you are going to do it, DONT follow this example!Mr Swike appears to know what he is talking about, and has undertaken a body of work that is unfortunately for sale while only being 70% complete. Some of the instructions are incomplete (like showing what North polarity looks like on Stew-Macs polarity tester, but not South), and at least one (the Varistor mod) wildly inadvisable. Why not get the book done, checked out by objective professional parties, and then released as a complete reference book?Regarding the PDF download, I have not done so yet, but all of this info is available on the web, in color, ad nauseum. I bought the book to have at my bench so I could refer to it while wiring guitars. I do not have a color printer. I find the thought that, in order to experience what the book OUGHT to look like, you have to download a file, presumptuous, at best. Annoying, at the least.This book is not ready for sale, I advise against buying it, at least until these issues have been addressed. It ought to be an excellent bench reference, why not go the full 100 yards?

I bought the kindle version of this book and was immensely UNHAPPY! There were missing pictures, the "pdf" file that shows more wiring options was NOT included in the kindle version. This ebook takes A LONG TIME to load when you're turning the pages in the kindle. This is the ONLY BOOK I'VE EVER RETURNED. Amazon accepted the return and refunded my money, which is why I think amazon.com is THE GREATEST ONLINE STORE ON THE INTERNET, HANDS DOWN!!! Noone comes close to your customer service, your quick shipping and the accuracy of the orders. I've been ordering from amazon since 1999! I've NEVER, EVER had a problem.My advice, buy the print version.I've bought many kindle books and I'm very happy with my kindle and the books. This is the ONLY one that has ever given me any trouble. The information about different wiring of a Strat was informative but I felt the info could've been a little more informative but, I can't judge because my kindle version of this book was very hard to navigate.... That's all.I also think this book is on the pricey side, for the elementary information that it offers.

Had to brush up