Need help finding a wiring diagram. Any suggestions would be helpful.

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tommersjay

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So here goes. I am currently looking to wire a Gibson 57 Classic pup in the neck and 57 classic plus pup in the bridge. I have 4 push/pull pots in my Les Paul from previously having the Jimmy Page wiring. I am over that and ready to move on. The 57 classic plus is two conductor, so I realize the Jimmy Page wiring is out of the question regardless. The 57 classic is a 4 conductor and I would like to retain the coil splitting ability for just the neck pickup. That being said, any help with a diagram or suggestions as to how to wire this? In short, 4 push pull pots, a 4 conductor pickup in the neck with a coil split activated with the neck volume pot, a two conductor bridge pickup wired normally, and a set of russian PIO caps. I have a guy that can solder everything for me, he just needs a diagram. I would rather not pay someone to do it.

side note: I am leaving the 4 push/pull pots in the guitar even though only one will be utilized. I am under the impression that it wouldn't make a tonal difference to change the others and it would be easier to leave them inactive when pulled.
 
Re: Need help finding a wiring diagram. Any suggestions would be helpful.

If nothing is wired to their switches, you can pull the others all day long and all you'll do is increase the risk of yanking the shaft out of the assembly (and that ain't NO FUN! :lol: )

For the diagram you want, the existence of 1000 push pulls is of no consequence, as you only need one, so there is no diagram for 4 push pulls where only one is being used. All you need is a single push-pull diagram.

Just use the Neck Pickup portion of this diagram:

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Of course you have to translate the wire colors from Duncan to Gibson using this:

Pickup-Color-Codes.jpg
 
Re: Need help finding a wiring diagram. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Since the bridge pickup is 2 conductor and I am only using the top portion of the diagram, do you know if the two tone pots still need to be soldered together? I know if I was just soldering just two 2 conductor pups that they would not but in this case its a bit of a hybrid wiring.
 
Re: Need help finding a wiring diagram. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Yes, you would really want to keep all 4 pots grounded to each other.
 
Re: Need help finding a wiring diagram. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Well, I have everything wired correctly and it is all technically working except the volume pot on the neck is giving me slight issues. The coil split works but when I roll down the actual volume, it stops decreasing around 5-6 and then never cuts out completely. Same effect on full bumbucker or coil split, doesn't matter the setting. Eveything else is fine and it's wired correctly. Any ideas?
 
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