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shadowsong · 04-18-2009, 07:22 AM

I just aquired a rather lovely honey burst plus top epi lp standard. The guy who had it sold it for 200 bucks so i got rather lucky. He had changed out some dead pots with the wrong pots and the top hat knobs didn't fit over the new pots so i got the right pots, dug my old soldering iron, and went to work. The bridge pickup was no big deal but the neck pickup is giving me a bit of trouble and I was wondering if maybe one of you guys could help. The wiring diagrams just don't seem to help with my issue.

firstly I'm not new to wiring electric guitars. I have been in and out of strat type guitars for years and recently managed to pull off ibanez split 5 wiring however - the les paul is a different beast altogether. The neck pickup itself is no big deal - the hot goes to the first lead on the neck volume pot the ground goes to the case of the pot. The tone pot has a similar set up with one wire coming off of it with two connections, one going to the first lead and the second coming off the case which if i recall before i desoldered everything these connections mirror the neck pickup - the connection coming off of the lead on the volume pot goes to the lead where the hot of the neck pickup goes and the other connection goes to the case.

Next is the quick connector harness thing coming off of the switch. I think this is where i'm messing up but i'm not sure - Every diagram i've seen has one connection here but the wire has two connections like a guitar pickup. One of them appears to be a hot which i am wiring to the second lead of the volume pot and the next is a braided cable like a ground so i am wiring it to the case.

what happens is nothing - the neck pickup doesn't work at all. Any ideas?

04-18-2009, 07:22 AM	#129 (permalink)
shadowsong Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Wiring Library I just aquired a rather lovely honey burst plus top epi lp standard. The guy who had it sold it for 200 bucks so i got rather lucky. He had changed out some dead pots with the wrong pots and the top hat knobs didn't fit over the new pots so i got the right pots, dug my old soldering iron, and went to work. The bridge pickup was no big deal but the neck pickup is giving me a bit of trouble and I was wondering if maybe one of you guys could help. The wiring diagrams just don't seem to help with my issue. firstly I'm not new to wiring electric guitars. I have been in and out of strat type guitars for years and recently managed to pull off ibanez split 5 wiring however - the les paul is a different beast altogether. The neck pickup itself is no big deal - the hot goes to the first lead on the neck volume pot the ground goes to the case of the pot. The tone pot has a similar set up with one wire coming off of it with two connections, one going to the first lead and the second coming off the case which if i recall before i desoldered everything these connections mirror the neck pickup - the connection coming off of the lead on the volume pot goes to the lead where the hot of the neck pickup goes and the other connection goes to the case. Next is the quick connector harness thing coming off of the switch. I think this is where i'm messing up but i'm not sure - Every diagram i've seen has one connection here but the wire has two connections like a guitar pickup. One of them appears to be a hot which i am wiring to the second lead of the volume pot and the next is a braided cable like a ground so i am wiring it to the case. what happens is nothing - the neck pickup doesn't work at all. Any ideas?