Ok... so you've decided that, rather than drag that project guitar down to your local luthier and invest another $100 to $150 to fix the electronics, you want to buy a harness on Ebay and try replacing it yourself.

Smart move, money-wise.

It's really not that difficult to replace your old wiring harness with a newer, higher quality one. And we can build you one that's better than the original one that was in your project guitar.

"How's that?", you might ask. Well, guitar builders (all guitar builders) like to make money. And they do that by building your guitar as cheaply as possible. One of the ways they save money is to put cheap electronics into your guitar. You (usually) don't see the electronics and, even if you did actually open up the back and look at the wiring harness, would you know what you're looking at?

Most guitarists just want to play. And they want to hear this Great Tone scream out of their guitar. But The Search for Great Tone can be a very frustrating and elusive thing. And you can throw (literally) thousands of dollars at a guitar/amp combination and still not end up with Great Tone. It could be as simple as your guitar's pickups/electronics combination.

A nice, new, well-put-together, quality wiring harness is nice but, as with a car, it's only one part of the quality puzzle. For your guitar to sound it's best, all of the parts must come together at the same time to produce that Great Tone.

Cheap $50 pickups + quality wiring harness  + $3,000 Vox AC30HW = not-such-a-Great-Tone

Brand-new, custom-built Lindy Fralin pickups + cheaply made wiring harness + vintage Silvertone amp-built-in-the-guitar-case = not-such-a-Great-Tone

I spent over $800 putting together my first japanese Les Paul copy and it sucked, sound-wise. I had no clue why. I used a Tone Pros locking bridge, I used really nice Grover tuners, good strings, built a wiring harness with CTS pots, "Bumble Bee" capacitors, vintage-style cloth wiring, Switchcraft parts... I took it to my local luthier for the setup work and spent a LOT of money (setting intonation, aligning the neck, crowning and polishing the frets, etc.) and by all acounts, this guitar should fricken' ROCK!

Cheap (but new) $50 pickups were my downfall. (but they looked good!) This guitar just sounded dead. DOA. Blah... So... I replaced the junky pickups with new Seymour Duncans (the SH5's) and now this guitar tears it UP! It's a screamer!

One wrong thing in the chain is enough to keep your project from really getting off the ground the way that you'd like it to. Don't let this happen to you!

Drop me a note and let's talk shop. jack@phat-chance.com