Post by D2o on Apr 8, 2008 12:46:05 GMT -5
Hi Guys,
My apologies in advance for this long post:
I just picked up a non-functional (possibly "Samick") LP(ish) kind of guitar for dirt cheap because someone played around with the wiring and it no longer works.
Well, maybe it just never worked ... who knows?
Also, it is possibly possessed ... because my mulitimeter has coincidentally malfunctioned since I got this guitar ... it correctly reads "0" when I touch the two probes together but as soon as I seperate the probes the reading rapidly increases until it reads "1". Did I blow a fuse or something, or should I just get a new meter?
Anyway, back to the guitar:
It's two humbuckers each have only three wires (green, red, and black) ;
It seems to have one 500 K pot and two 100 K pots ;
The guitar has no pickguard or anything, so I can't really tell too much about where the wires are coming from and going to ... I am kind of guessing for the time being. Even worse, I am currently not with the guitar and so I am drawing on my memory glands.
On the other hand, since I am likely not going to leave the wiring as is, I guess it doesn't matter that much anyway.
Therefore, don't place a lot of weight on my following recollection of the guitar's innards ...
My apologies for having no pictures. Sorry, I do not own a digital camera yet.
My child does have one and if the resolution was greater than 1 megapixel and each picture didn't also include a Disney character in it, by golly, I would take some pictures. As it is, here's sort of what I remember is going on with the wiring ...
The green and black wires go to the back of one of the 100 K pots ;
The red wires go to the middle terminal on each of the 100 K pots ;
I can't really tell too much about what is going on with the 3 way switch, as there are a bunch of same color wires going from who knows where to the 3 way, and back to who knows where ...
... but, 2 of those wires coming from the 3 way switch seem go to the back of the 500 K pot, which also has the lone capacitor.
I don't know the capacitor value but has the following markings on it:
50 3M
R 50
The third wire from the 3 way seems to go to the output jack.
Since the guitar doesn't work, I guess it doesn't matter what it was supposed to be set up as, it is only important to determine what it will be set it up as.
So, what is the best way to set it up, given the pot values? ... 2 vol 1 tone, or 2 tone 1 vol? ... or even 1 vol 1 tone and just leave the other pot there, attached to nothing?
Will the 100 K pots be too murky?
Anyone got some ideas for pointing the wires in the correct direction, depending on what the suggestion is?
Here are a couple of links to wiring possibilities, from the Seymour Duncan site, but how would this work with only three wires?
www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=2h_2v_1t_3w
www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=2h_1v_2t_3w
Thanks in advance, guys - I appreciate your help.
My apologies in advance for this long post:
I just picked up a non-functional (possibly "Samick") LP(ish) kind of guitar for dirt cheap because someone played around with the wiring and it no longer works.
Well, maybe it just never worked ... who knows?
Also, it is possibly possessed ... because my mulitimeter has coincidentally malfunctioned since I got this guitar ... it correctly reads "0" when I touch the two probes together but as soon as I seperate the probes the reading rapidly increases until it reads "1". Did I blow a fuse or something, or should I just get a new meter?
Anyway, back to the guitar:
It's two humbuckers each have only three wires (green, red, and black) ;
It seems to have one 500 K pot and two 100 K pots ;
The guitar has no pickguard or anything, so I can't really tell too much about where the wires are coming from and going to ... I am kind of guessing for the time being. Even worse, I am currently not with the guitar and so I am drawing on my memory glands.
On the other hand, since I am likely not going to leave the wiring as is, I guess it doesn't matter that much anyway.
Therefore, don't place a lot of weight on my following recollection of the guitar's innards ...
My apologies for having no pictures. Sorry, I do not own a digital camera yet.
My child does have one and if the resolution was greater than 1 megapixel and each picture didn't also include a Disney character in it, by golly, I would take some pictures. As it is, here's sort of what I remember is going on with the wiring ...
The green and black wires go to the back of one of the 100 K pots ;
The red wires go to the middle terminal on each of the 100 K pots ;
I can't really tell too much about what is going on with the 3 way switch, as there are a bunch of same color wires going from who knows where to the 3 way, and back to who knows where ...
... but, 2 of those wires coming from the 3 way switch seem go to the back of the 500 K pot, which also has the lone capacitor.
I don't know the capacitor value but has the following markings on it:
50 3M
R 50
The third wire from the 3 way seems to go to the output jack.
Since the guitar doesn't work, I guess it doesn't matter what it was supposed to be set up as, it is only important to determine what it will be set it up as.
So, what is the best way to set it up, given the pot values? ... 2 vol 1 tone, or 2 tone 1 vol? ... or even 1 vol 1 tone and just leave the other pot there, attached to nothing?
Will the 100 K pots be too murky?
Anyone got some ideas for pointing the wires in the correct direction, depending on what the suggestion is?
Here are a couple of links to wiring possibilities, from the Seymour Duncan site, but how would this work with only three wires?
www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=2h_2v_1t_3w
www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=2h_1v_2t_3w
Thanks in advance, guys - I appreciate your help.