Recent content by thegummy

Recently I re-wired my PRS SE Custom 24. After putting it all back together, I tapped each coil of each pickup with a screwdriver (as usual) to make sure the switching was working before re-stringing it. One of the coils of the neck pickup was significantly quieter than the other so I thought...

Below is the wiring diagram for a guitar I have with a coil tap on a push-pull. The green represents the North/South finish wires and the 3-way pickup selector switch is at the bottom. Could anyone explain why it has been wired this way as opposed to the more standard way of coil tapping where...

I've read quite a few people speak highly of the Jimmie Vaughan Strat wiring where the bridge and neck pickups have a tone pot each and the middle pickup isn't connected to a tone pot. What would the advantages of this setup be over using a No-Load tone pot rather than leaving the middle open...

My guitar came with 2 zebra pickups but I recently replaced the bridge pickup with an SD59 that I bought from eBay. The one I found happened to be all black. Now I'm going to get a PG for the neck - which do you think looks better, an all black pickup to match the new bridge or stick with zebra...