Thank you for the response. I want to use an RS prewired vintage and I wonder if it would be best (or bad) to leave the metal plate in and all the wires as is and simply take out the pots and caps together replacing them with the prewired unit. I kinda want to take out the plate and have it look exactly as vintage, but I haven't seen what to do with all those wires. I also am thinking of replacing the switch as it is 'scratchy'.
I would like to remake my photo with text indicating what each wire does. Could you please indicate what each wire below does?
Large Black = jack output
Thin Black = switch
Braided Metal = pickups
Exposed Metal (to wood) = tailpiece ground (stopbar or bridge?)
Braided Black = ???
Yellow = ???
Green = ???
Red = ???
White = ???
Thick Gray = ???
Thanks again.
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Originally Posted by ArchSgro
I had the same question a month or so ago but it fell through the cracks and didn't get any response. I figured it out though and recently put new pots and caps in my Studio Prem. Plus. By the way, the change in tone is significant and noticable if you do this. I didn't rewire back to the switch, only desoldered and resoldered the existing wires using the 50's wiring scheme.
Your current wiring is identical to mine. The small vertical plate is for convenience and acts as a grounding point as well as the connection to the output jack. Using your photo, the grounding occurs on the left side of the vertical plate. The braided wire from the output jack is exposed and soldered below while the grounds from the switch are soldered above. The right side is where it receives the signal coming from the switch (thin black wire)and links it to the output jack (wire with black sheath). If you are rewiring the switch you can bypass this and have a continuous wire from the switch's output to the output jack. Just make sure its grounded.
The metal plate that the pots are attached to is a ground. It probably helps in production as Gibson can fit the plate out with pots and caps and plop it right in.
The ground from the tailpiece is the exposed single wire soldered to your neck volume pot which is in the lower right corner of your photo.
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