Right … down to business with rewiring the Vintage V100s!
Under the hood on ‘Tobacco’ and we can see exactly how nasty
and cheap the wiring really is: nothing like a real vintage Les Paul … and not
really much like a top spec guitar! The best thing you can say about this setup is that
it works … sort of.
As an aside, you can also clearly see how
the cover screws ‘missed’ the wood and
lead to it being loose.
This is a pukka diagram … and it’s nothing like this lol.
Individual pots should be wired like this.
It looks like this in real life!
(I can’t claim that the diagrams or Gibbo ‘59 burst’ pic are
mine … just judiciously lifted from the net!)
There are other ways to wire a Les Paul … but this is the
most accurate to the late fifties ethos, and to my ears sounds best.
So now for the shopping list for ‘Iced T’ … which will be
wired as close to fifties as I can get it while sticking to a strict budget.
I’ll be using full size 500k pots, probably Alpha rather
than CTS … and Sprague .22pf ‘Orange Drop’ caps. Wiring up to the selector will
be done with proper shielded, 50s style
cable.
As I have been mostly working on Strats and Teles of late I
was fresh out of 500k pots so those have been ordered from one of my usual
supplier axesrus … and now I sit back
and wait!
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