Re: JB and Jazz Installation in Epiphone Les Paul Tribute?
Hello All,
This is my first post - just joined the forum after putting SD Alnico II Pro Slash pups in my Epiphone LP Standard, and was shocked at the complete transformation in sound that I got over stock pups through my amp even in clean mode and with reverb off. Instantly addicted to hot-rodding now - I have a JB/Jazz combo about to go into a Vintage VRS100...
Anyway - to try and answer this question. I'm a detail freak, so I like to know why I'm doing stuff. I don't just take pictures of internals, I draw a wiring diagram as well, and I study the SD wiring articles carefully.
With the best will in the world, your pictures aren't very good
- which is why I guess the other posters haven't mentioned anything about them...
Looking at the pictures, it looks to me like from the third picture, you have a black hot wire, and green/white are joining the coils for your neck pickup. You haven't moved the lead for the bridge pickup so that the pictures can capture anything useful, it's hidden behind the tone pot.
So, as stated, you could follow the article in
https://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/the-tone-garage/guitar-wiring-explored-humbucker-internals, join your red and white, and use black as your hot wire. There are 5 wires in a humbucker prepared for coil splitting - 2 to ground, 2 to join the coils, and 1 hot output. You know enough now to join your red and white on the new pickups, and solder them to the point where green/white are currently soldered, replace the old black with the new black, and replace your other two (they are joined to the big blue wire) with the new green and bare. That should give you a working guitar with functioning coil splitting, although it may not isolate the same coil as at present (it will make the slug coil active when coils are split).
HOWEVER
You have no idea which poles will be active when you split the coils - so if you want ultimate control, you will need to do more work. If you have a multimeter, you can use a continuity tester to work out which colours out of your current green/white is part of the slug coil, and which is part of the screw coil. Then you can use the SD diagram at
https://www.seymourduncan.com/wiring-diagrams?meta_params=other-misc,wiring-misc to give you an equivalent configuration to what you have at present, or you can really start to play. However, I won't get into that - this should be enough to get you going. Good luck...
