Discovered the Wayback Machine saved a DIY guitar wiring guide I thought was gone forever

Three weeks ago I was trying to fix a grounding issue on my old Fender Strat copy. Remembered this perfect step by step from a forum called guitarwired.com that shut down back in 2018. Spent an hour digging through Google with no luck. Finally punched the old URL into archive.org and boom, there it was with all the diagrams intact. Soldered it up that night and the hum disappeared completely. Anyone else have a site they thought was extinct but found alive in the archives?

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avery_walker3018d ago

Did the grounding fix hold up long term, or did you have to re-solder eventually?

spencerw7218d ago

guitarwired.com brings back memories, I remember when that forum had the best modding guides for cheap Squiers. Actually found a dead site called solderhead.net through archive.org last year that had a full tutorial on shielding a Telecaster cavity with copper tape. The trick was overlapping the tape at the control cavity edges and making sure all the pot casings had a solid connection to the shield. My Squier is dead quiet now even under fluorescent lights. The hum went away completely and I haven't even touched it since.