What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

Feral Feline said:
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Working with my friend on his Tele earlier tonight, trying to install longer screws to lower the Creamery pups — wrong size screws no can do, project was screwed. Getting properly screwed Monday when the local nut/bolt shop opens up. Meanwhile...

I checked the wiring at his behest because the shop that installed the pickups in this beast of switch-craft had been requested to give it '50s style wiring, but when he rolls off the VOL it doesn't retain the treble as per '50s wiring. Not behaving like it should, never happy with it entirely, long-time suspecting that it was incorrectly wired...

I've looked at dozens of '50s-wiring diagrams and this is NOT '50s wiring — nor is it '60s nor is it modern.
I've seen caps wired from lug-2 of one pot and to an outside-lug of its associated partner-pot, but ...
I've never, ever, seen any wiring diagram where the tone-cap's soldered from lug 2 of the TONE to lug 2 of the VOL — nuh-uh, not once.

Anyone else ever come across this unicorn?


Help me Telexpert Obi-@MichaelWongnobi, you're my only hope!

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Yikes, well I can't tell from that pile of spaghetti how it's wired.

This is what I use....
 
MichaelW said:
Yikes, well I can't tell from that pile of spaghetti how it's wired.

This is what I use....
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Thanks, I'd not looked at the Lollar diagram before.

Don't let the spag fool you; it's just got all the coil-splitting and parallel/series bells and whistles push-pull pots. No need to see how it's wired, I've seen how it's wired.

The main take-away is: have you ever seen a tone-cap soldered from lug-2 of the TONE-pot to lug-2 of the VOL-pot?

All the wiring diagrams I've seen are like in the Lollar-link you sent. Even if it's not '50s wiring, the cap generally goes from lug-2 of one pot to an outer lug of the other pot, though I've seen a few outer-to-outer lugs cap-connections. Lug-2 to lug-2 = WTH?
 
NPN Germanium Fuzzrite on the way. This is one is gated and a bit crazy. Perfect for the noisy P90 in my Coronet.

It sounds better with a battery so boxing it up will require some voodoo. Waiting on Banzai to ship me pots and stereo Lumbergs.

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Feral Feline said:
Thanks, I'd not looked at the Lollar diagram before.

Don't let the spag fool you; it's just got all the coil-splitting and parallel/series bells and whistles push-pull pots. No need to see how it's wired, I've seen how it's wired.

The main take-away is: have you ever seen a tone-cap soldered from lug-2 of the TONE-pot to lug-2 of the VOL-pot?

All the wiring diagrams I've seen are like in the Lollar-link you sent. Even if it's not '50s wiring, the cap generally goes from lug-2 of one pot to an outer lug of the other pot, though I've seen a few outer-to-outer lugs cap-connections. Lug-2 to lug-2 = WTH?
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Nope, never seen that. Maybe it's a Fender thing? I'm not familiar with Fender dual wide range HB wiring. "Standard" modern wiring has the tone cap from the center tone lug to the first volume lug.
 
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MichaelW said:
Nope, never seen that. Maybe it's a Fender thing? I'm not familiar with Fender dual wide range HB wiring. "Standard" modern wiring has the tone cap from the center tone lug to the first volume lug.
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Found that one that's outer-lug to outer-lug, from Premier Guitar, "'60s Wiring":

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As for the WRHM pups, to have the splits and parallel/series switching, it's gotta be 4-conductor wiring so I don't think there's anything abnormal there.

I think the following is what my friend wanted, I'll ask him tonight as we'll be working on the pickup-heights (if we can get the right screws):

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The other problem is — he has a Fender Starcaster with the same wiring by the same guitar-tech, but because it's in a semi-hollow without easy access (gotta go through the ff-holes) can't confirm that one is incorrect though it behaves the same way as the Tele.
 
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