Switch received on Friday, pickup swap completed yesterday. I finally put new strings on to signify my intention not to mess around with the insides of this guitar for a while. 😄 Finding a [3+]PDT with the configuration I wanted (3 position) was more challenging than expected. In the end, good old g...

Oh, I hadn't thought of it because I think we're getting a bit esoteric for guitar parts and I hadn't seen any for sale in the usual places, but of course there's such a thing as a 3PDT! Thank you for the explanations, that makes a lot of sense — Zexcoil has a diagram for how to wire a DPDT for thei...

Got the Zexcoil! I'm eager to install it but trying to wrap my head around this diagram from Lawing's site: Zexcoil Silent Split Wiring.png I'll be swapping it in for one of the Dimarzios, which has the following wire colors: N start: red N finish: black S start: white S finish: green For the Zexcoi...

Well, now I have to confess that I just don't really know what those dimensions actually mean. The body of my NiteFly, from end pin to tip of upper horn, measures about 18". But from the end pin to where the body meets the neck (i.e. where the supports on either side of the neck terminate in th...

I ended up ordering a Zexcoil ZTM4 rather than email Dimarzio. Noiseless splitting sounded too good to resist, and TBH I was feeling a bit burned by the Cruiser being so quiet unsplit when there was nothing about that in its description on their website... either it's working as intended, in which c...

Hi airbags ! I just measured my Nitefly at just under 38" long x 13" wide (at approximately its widest point) x 2.5" thick. I'm guessing you typo'd the case dimensions? 17.25" is like... a ukulele. 😆 I think it will likely fit — my understanding is a Nitefly is roughly Strat dime...

Thanks for the toothpick tip! I will give that a try. You may want to shoot Dimarzio an email soliciting recommendations - Often, you’ll get the guy who designed the pickup responding. In the meantime, are you wanting anything more specific out of the middle pickup, other than a single-sized humbuck...

Apologies for my brainfart suggestion to swap the Alumitone tap wire being electrically identical to how you already had it I like it more this way anyway because the Free-Way has two holes, and the toggle doesn't. 😁 Your Cruiser is working as it should That's disappointing — I was thinking maybe I...

After fixing the ground wire I now have a working guitar again! I played around with the Free-Way and toggle switch combinations some... whew. There are a lot of options here, which is what I wanted since I don't have room for a whole guitar collection. Some are redundant: e.g. positions 1 and 6 wit...

Yes indeed. Thanks mmmguitar . I noticed that but couldn't figure out where the heck it was originally connected. Thanks for confirming that it's definitely not supposed to be like that! I'm back to work today so won't be able to work on this till this evening at the earliest, but I'll fix that as s...

Actually let me add a recording of the sound the guitar makes when plugged in too. The hum is constant but gets louder when I touch the strings:

Well, currently I have a nonfunctional guitar, with what sounds like a 60hz hum when I touch the strings and no discernible output in any position of the Free-Way switch. Debugging time! For now I'm just going to throw a pic of the current state of the wiring in here and then go to bed, cause I've l...

This is in progress! I'll update when I have more info...

@valrus, having the tap (white) wire of the Alumitone and the series connection of your middle humbucker wired to a SPDT means that, depending on the toggle position, either the Alumitone would always be tapped or the middle pickup would always be split. Positions 1 and 6 would be redundant; becaus...

Wow, mmmguitar , what a great comment — you really went above and beyond. Based on what you said (actually, maybe based on a previous iteration of your comment where you suggested tapping the Alumitone with a separate switch 😳), what I think I'd like to do is this ( mad scientist hair intensifies ):...

I'm following up on my plan from this thread to put an Alumitone and a Free-Way switch in my NiteFly. What I'm stuck on is how to adapt the Free-Way's coil split to the Alumitone's (unusual?) wire schema. I'm working off two diagrams. This one is for the Free-Way switch. Note there are two holes per...

In the interest of spreading "these guitars are meant to be played" (even if you aren't a virtuoso), and despite that I'm kind of allergic to self-promotion, here are a couple albums I recorded with my V1 Nitefly and Hornet (aka P41?) bass as primary instruments. Aside from a smattering of...

I’ll add that I do love my Fly Bass FB-4 😊 It makes me seem like a better bass player than I am 🤣 They’re not so common and they’re on the pricey side, but I’m a big fan! I'll second VJ's comment, the FB-4 is an amazing bass. Many tones can be pulled from it and the neck makes it extremely easy to ...

Hi! I've lurked this forum a bit and used some of its resources to make some upgrades (well, changes , anyway) to my V2 Nitefly. I thought I'd finally introduce myself. I bought this Nitefly back in like 2002 as a college student as my first electric guitar, after trying a P-38 in the local Guitar C...