Les Paul fret button fix.

**FallenSeraph** · Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 148 Location: Washington State

If look at the board that has the pins on it and the board that has the gold contact points for the pins there are silver contact points (8 side by side, not in 2 rows like the gold dots) as well, which are numbered if you look in the right places (one of the boards has the numbers on the opposite side.

Anyways i just soldered a piece of wire from 1 to 1, 2 to 2, etc.

in order for the pins not to even be part of the connection i just moved the board in the neck out of its slot and farther back in the neck, i have to slant it in order for the neck to screw back together. I can't take the neck off anymore, but who needed that anyway.

Here are the pics.

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**BriGuy** · Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 1883 Location: Boston

Nice fix. This is definetely what I would have done to my Les Paul if I didn't get fed up and returned it.

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**esp00shredder** · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:55 pm Post subject:

this wins in so many ways.
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**dho** · Joined: 20 Feb 2007 Posts: 600 Location: Columbia, MD

When I fixed mine, I just cut the contact board off altogether. Since the neck becomes essentially non-detachable after this fix, removing the contact board is a benefit since you don't have to worry about the position of the board or about being able to put the neck back on the guitar -- it just fits. It has worked well for me so far (and again, I'll make this fix for anybody free, including shipping over the holidays).

But yeah, this is the basic premise. Thanks for the pictures -- it's helped me explain the fix to a couple of people. It helps that the pins are 1:1

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--dho
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**FallenSeraph** · Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 148 Location: Washington State

**XxKevvxX** · Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 118

Probably a dumb question, but I can't even stand my guitar anymore. Would super-gluing the guitar neck inside the guitar work? Just on the edges, would not interrupt the connection.
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**FallenSeraph** · Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 148 Location: Washington State

only temporarily, the only sure fix is to solder the connections
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**blob** · Joined: 11 May 2007 Posts: 2028 Location: Dallas, TX

**XxKevvxX** · Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 118

Could someone make a step by step process on how to do this? It would be very much appreicated

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**GrapeSoda** · Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 44 Location: Vancouver, WA

Thought about doing this a while ago but never got around to doing it. Good to see that it works. Looks pretty straight forward, but would you mind telling me what gauge wire you used?

**VintageGold** · Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 2

**smithal3** · Joined: 10 Sep 2007 Posts: 539

I can personally verify this mod (can you call it that) works.

Thanks so much!

(now I won't lose so many PFO matches when I have to quickly disassemble and reatach the neck...)
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**WildBob** · Joined: 02 May 2007 Posts: 27

I would also like to see a tutorial on how to do this. My blue button has basically stopped working and I'm kinda nervous about messing around inside there.

**Chil** · Joined: 05 Jan 2007 Posts: 843 Location: Delaware

Well my PS3 guitar finally kicked the bucket today. None of the fret buttons are responding (but I can navigate the XMB). Since I bought it at launch all warranties are over anyway, so I might as well try this out. If it doesn't work it looks like I'm not gonna be playing GH3 for awhile.
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**silverfk** · Joined: 09 Jan 2008 Posts: 167 Location: Texas

I'm sort of a soldering noob. I assume the contact board is the one that comes out with the neck? Is this correct?
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