Ibanez Electrics

Hello all, I was wondering if anyone can offer me some help on a particular prob.

I took apart and cleaned a lovely ole Ibanez late 80's floral neck Jem some months ago - but now its time to put it together, I cannot for the life of me remember the wiring on to the plug socket. :rolleyes:

Also a rather delicate little wire (an earth) which was soldered onto the spring clasp has become detached. I am not sure which pot it came off - I am guessing the tone pot (I can see a little bit of a hole in the solder etc) :confused:

Any help would be appreciated thanks... :)

these only go back to '94 but you may be able to find somthing useful here

And the link. This has proved to be very useful.

Unfortunately as you said -the guitar in question isn't in the list, but I never expected the diagrams (even for earlier models) to bear absolutely no resemblance to the multicoloured spaghetti - that passess for early Jem electrics (how many ways are there to wire a guitar for heavens sake??).


Ultimately it is on of them 50/50 situations, so I guess it can't really do much harm if I wire the plug socket wrongly first time around (I hope).

I posted the link because I thought that the old JEMs and the new ones would be at least similar in how they are wired...

but on the older ones you have at least two (what seems like) earth attachments connected to various parts of the guitar (the body and the spring tremolo clasp).

On my old guitar, some of the wires are coming straight off the pickups onto the plug socket, in the earliest diagrams they seem to be going via the tone, pickup selector and volume controls...

A genuine big thanks for the link again though, as it is usefull for my other guitars, and I hope you were not thinking I was being sarcastic in my reply, because I assure you I wasn't trying to be - in the slightest.

Soldering the plug socket was quite frankly the most arkwardest thing I have ever done in my life. First I had to enlarge the hole in the guitar to get the wire back through to the plug socket, and then hold the cables in place with the tips of my finger - in the tiny opening - trying not to burn them etc. What resulted is probably the ugliest most ameturish looking bit of soldering ever. If only the wire for the plug socket were long enough to be able to pull to the outside the body...of course it wasn't so it took me about an hour (of the most frustrating back aching, fffing and blinding effort) to solder just the two connections.

At one point I litterally felt like throwing the bl**dy thing through the window in frustration

It seems to be working OK now though (though I cannot remember the low buzzing sound before), and I am waiting in anticipation for the massive electric shocks and frizzy poodle perms etc.

Originally Posted by: oldywiddler

At one point I litterally felt like throwing the bl**dy thing through the window in frustration

wtf? it blocks out the word bloody? what if i need to say i chopped off my finger with the string cutter and now its bloody? is that not allowed too? lol ;) :p

EDIT: i guess it doesnt block it out...nvm then

first off, I didn't take your reply as sarcastic or anything, so it's all good.

secondly, he probably censored it himself because apparently "bloody" means something pretty bad in the U.K. from what I've heard.

of course it would of been a lot easier if I unscrewed the scratch plate and then pulled the cable though to the outside the guitar, soldered it and then screwed the scratch plate back onto the body.... :rolleyes:

Bloody bloody bugger.