https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:25:45 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-320100 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:06:57 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance TRGuitar https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-320100 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-320093 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:25:31 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance rparker https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-320093 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-320078 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:29:15 +0000
Thanks guys!]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance rparker https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-320078 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-320068 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:57:13 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance Hyperborea https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-320068 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-320067 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:53:56 +0000
The body of your tone pot might be a ground but it will need to have some wiring path from it to the ground on the output jack. That might be a wire running directly from the tone pot to the output jack or it might be a wire running from the tone pot body to the body of the volume pot which then has a wire running to the output jack ground.

You should have a look at some of the available wiring diagrams out there. Maybe at Seymour Duncan. Your setup is something like a Telecaster except that you have an LP style toggle rather than a Tele blade switch. You may need to take pieces of two wiring diagrams to see it. There are a lot of little variations in possible wiring options but most of them are differences that don't make a difference so don't get confused in those diagrams if there are variations - some have the capacitor in the tone circuit going all kinds of places but ultimately it lies on the path from the signal to the ground (though that ground location can be in lots of places).]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance Hyperborea https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-320067 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-320065 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:37:46 +0000

Here is a basic one pickup wiring diagram from Seymour Duncan. It shows the capacitor wiring.

Lots more goodies here Roy! http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance TRGuitar https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-320065 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-320051 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:02:01 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance rparker https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-320051 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-319998 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:26:31 +0000
I didn't see this until the better light of the day just now, but at the very end of the neck's red wire actually produces two wires. One is white and the other looks to have no insulation. The bridge's pickup has the black wite, but from it comes a white and an un-insulated. It looks like each of the colored wires goes to a different tab on one side of the switch, whilest the uninsulated wire gores to the same tab on the opposite side of the switch.

So, I think I need to run my white wires to the switch's seperate tabs on one end, the reds to the same tab on the other end of the switch. Only question, is where to put the un-insulated wire. Since you are mixing the shield and the signal ground then anywhere convenient in the grounding system - back of a pot, to the switch ground (along with the red/black wire), to the jack's ground, etc. You might want to feed all your grounds to one location and then use that to connect to the jack ground - known as star grounding. Maybe use the back of the tone pot but make sure there is a connection from the volume pot body to the tone pot body.
And the the tone pot needs to get wired in there. One end on the tone pot is connected to the signal input to the volume pot and the wiper on the tone pot (middle lug) is connected to ground. You need a capacitor in there but it doesn't matter if it's before or after the pot so either use the capacitor as the connection from the volume to the tone pot or from the wiper lug on the tone pot to ground.]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance Hyperborea https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-319998 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-319988 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:19:28 +0000
I didn't see this until the better light of the day just now, but at the very end of the neck's red wire actually produces two wires. One is white and the other looks to have no insulation. The bridge's pickup has the black wite, but from it comes a white and an un-insulated. It looks like each of the colored wires goes to a different tab on one side of the switch, whilest the uninsulated wire gores to the same tab on the opposite side of the switch.

So, I think I need to run my white wires to the switch's seperate tabs on one end, the reds to the same tab on the other end of the switch. Only question, is where to put the un-insulated wire.

And the the tone pot needs to get wired in there.]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance rparker https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-319988 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-319976 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:28:57 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance TRGuitar https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/wiring-question/#post-319976