Interesting article on vintage les paul wiring

[RLee]

Found this pdf doc today, which talks about how to restore your Les Paul wiring to the vintage '59 method.
http://singlecoil.com/docs/paula.pdf

Interesting read. Note that there's an error between what the doc claims is the vintage schematic, and what is actually shown in the first drawings -- I'm guessing they just used the wrong schematic/layout diagrams in that part of the doc. If you look at the actual guitar cavity wiring pic, you can see the correct (vintage) place to connect the tone caps (to the middle volume pot lug, ie, the wiper), and not the top of the pot that connects to the pu output wire.
I haven't actually A/B'd the differences, but I'd note that the tone controls would have more effect connected the vintage way (to the pot wiper), but only when your volume was not maxed... the farther down you turned your volume, the more effect your tone control would have.

 

[FuseG4]

Re: Interesting article on vintage les paul wiring

I've seen this before, and thought that a good bit of it was a bunch of "well, duh" kind of advice. "get a good and massive bridge made out of the right material"... yeah I figured. thanks for not mentioning what "the right material" is. well whatever I'm sure it's a good article for people who are beginning.

I definitely didn't follow the wiring advice. I had heard before that that the more "correct" way was the tone cap to the middle lug. It works on teles, LPs, and I'm gonna do it to my strat next time I change strings. I always find the tone and volumes more interactive the "vintage wiring" way.