P-90 help

[Dr.John]

I bought an old Gibson ES-125, which is empty, no hardware. Somewhere along the line a previous owner added a bridge pickup routing. The guitar has holes for one volume pot and one tone pot. Can anyone help me with a wiring diagram that has two (2) P-90's, one volume and one tone? I really don't want to put anymore holes in this guitar if I don't have to. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Dr.John

 

[Captain Tightpants]

Re: P-90 help

You could just get a concentric pot for volume and tone and put that in one hole, and a switch in the other. Or use the exitsing volume and tone hole and drill just one more for the switch. Another option would be 2 concentric pots for vol/tone on each pickup and no switch at all, like a Jazz bass. Or just 2 volume controls if you don't use a tone.

 

[Aceman]

Re: P-90 help

Option B: It's already chopped. Have at it!

 

[uOpt]

Re: P-90 help

You could just get a concentric pot for volume and tone and put that in one hole, and a switch in the other. Or use the exitsing volume and tone hole and drill just one more switch. Another option would be 2 concentric pots for vol/tone on each pickup and no switch at all, like a Jazz bass. Or just 2 volume controls if you don't use a tone.

The Jazz bass trick doesn't work too well with guitars. It requires that you connect the pots backwards and that kills the resonance frequency quite badly, too badly for a guitar but OK for a bass.

 

[Captain Tightpants]

Re: P-90 help

The Jazz bass trick doesn't work too well with guitars. It requires that you connect the pots backwards and that kills the resonance frequency quite badly, too badly for a guitar but OK for a bass.

Yeah, I hear you, just throwing suggestions out for him. Personally, I'm with Ace, it's already got an extra pickup hole, I'd go ahead with the extra holes for a switch and 2 more pots.