sunvalleylaw
November 23rd, 2008, 10:56 PM
Well, I did my first real guitar repair today. Last night, I was practicing and stepped on my cord, pulling it from my input jack. I also pulled off the nut and washer holding the input jack into the side of my Viking. Apparently the little nut had been working loose. The wires pulled the jack itself immediately back into the cavity of the guitar.
After consulting with Spud who had to wire one of these Viks, this is what I did.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w92/sunvalleylaw/retouchedVik.jpg
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Showing guitar with jack having been fished out with a fork and pliers and laid on a post card.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w92/sunvalleylaw/P1010797.jpg
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Showing input jack hole.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w92/sunvalleylaw/P1010798.jpg
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Here, I fashioned a loop out of bailing wire and stuck it in through the jack hole (Spud gave me the idea) and fished it up out of the F hole, then bent the end a little and slipped it over the part of the jack that contacts the end of the cable end jack end thingie. (Highly technical term). Here it is ready to be pulled back to the jack input hole. IMPORTANT: I went to the hardware store and got a star washer and put it over the input jack so it would rest between the jack and the inside of the side of the guitar. A star washer has little teeth on it that grip the wood, so the jack does not simply twist around twirling the wires all over while I try and tighten it from the outside. Spud gave me that idea too.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w92/sunvalleylaw/P1010799.jpg
From there I dropped the jack back into the F hole and made sure it cleared the other wires in there. Then I pulled carefully on the bailing wire until it brought the end of the input jack back out the input jack hole. Then I put the little flat washer and nut back on and used my Thorsen 7/16 socket to hand tighten the nut until it was snug but not tight. The star washer seemed to do its job.
So, since I at first did not know what to do and had to ask, and I thought someone else might run into this sometime, there you go! Voila! I was back up and running and testing the rodent at loud volumes while my family was away doing stuff today. :rockon:
After consulting with Spud who had to wire one of these Viks, this is what I did.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w92/sunvalleylaw/retouchedVik.jpg
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Showing guitar with jack having been fished out with a fork and pliers and laid on a post card.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w92/sunvalleylaw/P1010797.jpg
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Showing input jack hole.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w92/sunvalleylaw/P1010798.jpg
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^
Here, I fashioned a loop out of bailing wire and stuck it in through the jack hole (Spud gave me the idea) and fished it up out of the F hole, then bent the end a little and slipped it over the part of the jack that contacts the end of the cable end jack end thingie. (Highly technical term). Here it is ready to be pulled back to the jack input hole. IMPORTANT: I went to the hardware store and got a star washer and put it over the input jack so it would rest between the jack and the inside of the side of the guitar. A star washer has little teeth on it that grip the wood, so the jack does not simply twist around twirling the wires all over while I try and tighten it from the outside. Spud gave me that idea too.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w92/sunvalleylaw/P1010799.jpg
From there I dropped the jack back into the F hole and made sure it cleared the other wires in there. Then I pulled carefully on the bailing wire until it brought the end of the input jack back out the input jack hole. Then I put the little flat washer and nut back on and used my Thorsen 7/16 socket to hand tighten the nut until it was snug but not tight. The star washer seemed to do its job.
So, since I at first did not know what to do and had to ask, and I thought someone else might run into this sometime, there you go! Voila! I was back up and running and testing the rodent at loud volumes while my family was away doing stuff today. :rockon: