Fixing guitars
by Matt on May.26, 2010, under Uncategorized
Yesterday, I took a soldering iron to my old samick strat copy. It had been suffering from some intermittent shorting in the input jack (which resulted from a previous fix due to no output at all). I had a slightly cold solder joint on the input jack itself.
turns out there was a lose solder joint too
I also had a look at ben’s maton mastersound 500, which was also suffering from no output at all.
all the internals looked fine, but I’m convinced the tone pot has a short/cold solder joint. I’m going to de-solder, and re-solder that on the weekend (or when I can acquire a multimeter)
It’s interesting to compare the internals of an almost 15 year old, woeful, strat copy from korea, and that of an australian made instrument. 
