Charvel Model 4 Wire diagram

[templeisland]

Hey all.
I am resurrecting A Charvel Model 4, 1 hum. 2 singles.
with 3, mini 6 pole DPDT 2 way switches
I have search everywhere to find a wire diagram with no luck.
Can any one here provide any info?

Thanks
Bob

[newey]

templeisland-

Hello and Welcome to G-Nutz2!

Haven't seen a diagram for that guitar posted here. The guys at jcfonline may be able to help, they're all about Jackson/Charvel stuff. In searching that site, I found your question was answered before but all the links were busted- I got 404 errors, so someone probably moved their pictures around after posting the links!

The jcfonline site had a photo of the wiring posted by user "Habanero", this may help:


This has a mid-boost active circuit, with Vol, tone and a boost knob. Here's a schematic of the circuit, from Freestompboxes.org:



In looking around, I noticed in many places people talked about this guitar as having "active pickups"- even from people who had one and should have known better. The guitar doesn't have active pups, it has passive pups with an active preamp/midboost circuit.

I also saw that the owner's manual for this guitar supposedly has a wiring diagram, perhaps you can find a copy of that archived online somewhere.

[chickenlicka]

i put 1 sgl deamons and 1 perly gate and a semour jazz in center i striped everything in there i have a wire diagram that i paid a tech to write up so i will always hev it. vol.500k middle tone is 250k and last tone is 250k i used old switches that was a mistake i have to see what the problem is now i was playing thru my new boss gt1 and the neck pick up went out oh lord i have no idea what the problem can be but the factory 3 switches is on - on not on and off but dont know if its right u know just because a tech did it dont mean its correct but it sound killer when working than neck pick up went out there are so many ways i can look at this but i think these lil switches may be not enough to run hum seymour pearly gate and 1-lil demon and center a jazz pick up cant remember which one but its semour to. it sounde great then it crashed but didnt burn.till i get this working properly i wont send u the diagram. 

[Deleted]

Hmm so using a switch to turn each pickup on but the neck wire to the switch is missing and the common (the one running between them all) should be going to the volume

At current (right to left) right switch turns on bridge , middle turns on middle and the left has to be on for the middle and bridge switches to work

[newey]

chickenlicka-

Some punctuation would help us read your post.

On-On switches can easily be wired for On-off use. However, if the original switches match your tech's drawing (meaning there are only 2 solder lugs per switch) that suggests they are SPST On-Off switches.

If the switches are old, best to test them to be sure they're OK before using them. But if the neck pickup was working, and later stopped working, this would suggest a bad connection rather than a problem with the diagram or with the switch.