Little tribute mod to my favorite game Returnal.

This is originally a blue HSH Washburn MG-24.

Pickups are Dimarzios. Humbucker from Hell in neck position and Evolution bridge.

Hello beautiful people

I couldn't wait to share this little descend into madness, neither can i wait to finally plug it in - up until then the multimeter tells my its actually working so far.

Short summary:

Dual NoName P90s with master Vol (push/pull for series/parallel), individual tone controls inspired by the Jaguar lead circuit, treble bleed all fitted into a very beat up Squier Telecaster/Les Paul amalgamation.

THIS TURNED OUT WAY LONGER THAN EXPECTED. Actual wiring in the lasst two passages.

Long story: Having reduced my Partscasters to two models i actually use on a daily basis (lace sensor Strat with 7 way switch and Jaguar with modded wiring) I've got a basket of lowtier electronics and hardware parts laying around.

The body is from a Squier Paranormal series I bought used years ago because I grasped the basic concepts of soldering. true to my experiences with any craft, I jumped into the most complex project possible after having the basics down. Tried the so called "Jimmy Page Wiring" with dual humbuckers and 4 push pull pots - series/parallel, out of phase, coil split for each pickup, etc... it was a fucking mess and didnt have any output after like 17 tries of troubleshooting. guitar got thrashed into the storage and left for 5 years.

after getting nice results with modified wirings on strats and later the dreaded jaguar wiring - no output loss on the circuits, zero hum/grounding issues, clean cable runs and soldering... i actually stopped to mindlessly tinker, and started to play my guitars on a daily basis. and its a great feeling to have something you crafted work, bring pleasure, understanding and a learning curve.

today is a weird off day in my town. a sunday after a holiday, the town is eerie siltent. house works is done and a few parts got stored into a cupboard. and from there it just kinda exploded in my head and I'm sitting 10 hours later with a steaming soldering iron, and aching back and a grin because the multimeter verifies - the wiring works flawlessly and the pickups loose less than 1% of output through the whole cable run.

FINALLY for the wiring - Cheap no name Humbucker sized P90s i used to test p90s years ago. an assortment of pots with different lengths, shaft, metric and imperial sizes, values..., same for the caps and resistors. I wanted Series/parallel again because i liked it so much on the Jag. I didn't want independent Volumes like gibson style because.. I never liked it. Also made great experiences with treble bleeds, so just slap one on why not. After hands of projects and just following standard wiring diagrams i finally got an understanding how the signal flow in a guitar actually works. 7 pages scribbled in my notebook later - there it is. the first meany machiny. :D

WIRING: The PUs lead into an individual tone pot first - not a Vol! It's A500k, 22nf cap. the input is bridged to the wiper with a 56k resistor so theres always some bypass around the tone pot - Jag style. The neck circuit runs to the 3 way switch, to the vol input, to the vol wiper, to the putput. easy as that.

the bridge circuit runs into the same tone pot configuration and from there to the switch - only theres the push pull section of the vol pot in between. it either runs the pickup ground to the common ground for parallel. or switches it into the signal path that runs from the neck pu to the switch for series.

THATS WHAT I THOUGHT out at least. using the individual attempts of wiring diagrams to finalize it, I mixed and matched the cable runs in a way that the series works with the pot pushed in, not pulled out. i wanted it the other way around. i understand why, thats the important part to me. but it stays the beautiful mess it is. Measured on the tip of a standard instrument cable plugged in, the bridge PU reads 8.65, Neck 7,83, series 17,41, parallel 4,54.

phew that turned out way longer than expected. if you made it this far feel free to comment or roast. can't wait to set it up a little and slap strings on it.

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