les paul with phase split coil and varitone
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les paul with phase split coil and varitone
It can be done. But good pint the humbucker is a better candidate.
I have Maxon pickups from the late 70s with single wire for hot and outer braid is ground
I still managed to coil split them by carefully soldering a fly lead to the serial link wires between the coils and I put the bridge on a push pull for out of phase by putting the cable in a heat shrink tube and exposing the last 3 mm of braid which I tinned. I hooked the hot pickup wire to one middle terminal on the push pull and the tinned the opposite middle terminal. I then brought the tinned braid to the tinned terminal and heated the braid so the solder flowed between terminal and braid. Just like how I would ground the braid to the back of a pot.
It's fiddly but can be done.
Heres my coil split wire :
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It can be done. But good pint the humbucker is a better candidate.
I have Maxon pickups from the late 70s with single wire for hot and outer braid is ground
I still managed to coil split them by carefully soldering a fly lead to the serial link wires between the coils and I put the bridge on a push pull for out of phase by putting the cable in a heat shrink tube and exposing the last 3 mm of braid which I tinned. I hooked the hot pickup wire to one middle terminal on the push pull and the tinned the opposite middle terminal. I then brought the tinned braid to the tinned terminal and heated the braid so the solder flowed between terminal and braid. Just like how I would ground the braid to the back of a pot.
It's fiddly but can be done.
Heres my coil split wire :
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vinnie1971
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Re: les paul with phase split coil and varitone
I did consider soldering a fly lead to the braid for the outhouse of phase connection but decided that's not very neat and the whole cable would still need insulating to prevent the braid touching anything grounded when phase is reversed. I am sure I am not the only one who has done it this way.
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It can be done. But good pint the humbucker is a better candidate.
I have Maxon pickups from the late 70s with single wire for hot and outer braid is ground
I still managed to coil split them by carefully soldering a fly lead to the serial link wires between the coils and I put the bridge on a push pull for out of phase by putting the cable in a heat shrink tube and exposing the last 3 mm of braid which I tinned. I hooked the hot pickup wire to one middle terminal on the push pull and the tinned the opposite middle terminal. I then brought the tinned braid to the tinned terminal and heated the braid so the solder flowed between terminal and braid. Just like how I would ground the braid to the back of a pot.
It's fiddly but can be done.
Heres my coil split wire :
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I did consider soldering a fly lead to the braid for the outhouse of phase connection but decided that's not very neat and the whole cable would still need insulating to prevent the braid touching anything grounded when phase is reversed. I am sure I am not the only one who has done it this way.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
