Help fixing my guitar

[discothequeLP]

Ok here's the scoop:

I opened up the pickguard off my strat just to look around and have fun. I got some awful feedback the next time i played it, so i went back to the sugeons table and opened it up again. When i had closed it, the guitar didnt even work on an amp. I found out that i had disconnected the wire behind the plate on the back, and the wire that connects the thing that you plug the cord into the guitar.


Is that just a saudering job? If i get it fixed at a guitar shop how much would it cost?

Thanks for the help!

 

[Strato Edge]

I have a Strat, and I tried to fiddle around with it, and I did the EXACT same thing. Take it to the shop

 

[discothequeLP]

lol strato thanks man...how much did you pay? im a little tight on cash

 

[Strato Edge]

Oh its shouldn't be much at all, take it by your local Guitar Center and they should direct you in the right way.

(go Stratocasters! )

 

[gragravar]

Don't do this if you're not comfortable but personally I'd fix this myself, it sounds like a quick and easy soldering job and will take ten minutes max (as long as you know how to use a soldering iron of course. If you don't, practice using a couple of bits of old copper wire and a flat piece of tin, you'll save yourself a fortune over the years and most guitar wiring problems are nothing more than a dodgy connection so you don't need a degree in electronics to do this stuff). Take it to a techie if it still isn't working properly after that. I'd guess a simple job like this would cost $20 US max unless of course there's more wrong than you think, hope not of course.

Good luck,

Mick

 

[discothequeLP]

Thanks guys i miss my electric so much! I hate acoustic guitars!!!


My electric sounds exactly like The Edge's on WTSHNN on the Rattle & Hum vid.


AWESOME

 

[Lemonboy]

Don't do this if you're not comfortable but personally I'd fix this myself, it sounds like a quick and easy soldering job and will take ten minutes max (as long as you know how to use a soldering iron of course. If you don't, practice using a couple of bits of old copper wire and a flat piece of tin, you'll save yourself a fortune over the years and most guitar wiring problems are nothing more than a dodgy connection so you don't need a degree in electronics to do this stuff). Take it to a techie if it still isn't working properly after that. I'd guess a simple job like this would cost $20 US max unless of course there's more wrong than you think, hope not of course.

Good luck,

Mick

every geetarist should own a soldering iron.....