P90 to Tone Zone P90 wiring help

[Gtrjunior]

Like the title says, I'm replacing the stock Gibson bridge P90 with a Tone Zone P90 in a 2015 DC Les Paul. Of course it has the wiring harness ( D'OH!!) I just want to do a straight swap, without doing any coil split, in/out of phase etc...

http://guitarelectronics.com/guitar-wiring-resources/humbucker-wire-color-codes/

If I'm reading the charts correctly, i want to do this...


Gibson Dimarzio

Red (N Start)--------Red (N Start)
White (N Finish)-----Black (N Finish)
Green (S Finish)-----White (S Finish)
Black (S Start)-------Green (S Start)

So...
Red goes to Red
White to Black
Green to White
Black to Green
and of course bare to bare...

Does this look right to you guys?
Just want some confirmation from the experts before I begin surgery!!

 

[Gtrjunior]

Re: P90 to Tone Zone P90 wiring help

Aaaaaand the damn guitar’s rout is too shallow....ugh

 

[zionstrat]

Re: P90 to Tone Zone P90 wiring help

Welcome to the guitar mod chain of pain...if it goes 100% on first try, it means I got lucky.

If it's a nice guitar get it routed correctly, but I borrowed a dremmel tool the first time I hit this wall and ended up with an effective, but ugly, solution rather quickly.

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[Gtrjunior]

Re: P90 to Tone Zone P90 wiring help

It’s a 2015 LP Special. I got it when Sam Ash was blowing the out pretty cheap.
I was going to bring it to my father’s house and rout it out myself next weekend but I decided to go ahead and get it done professionally. There’s a great shop nearby that I’ve been going to for years. And they do great work.
I’ve already taken off the G Force tuning thing and installed some locking Grover’s. I have a graphtech nut on order, a Schaller Signum tailpiece and I also ordered new pots because I’m taking out the PCB board. I hate that thing. It’s too bad that it has some crappy hardware from the factory because otherwise it’s really a nice guitar for the price. After this work is done it will most likely be my #2 guitar right after my Standard.

 

[zionstrat]

Re: P90 to Tone Zone P90 wiring help

It’s a 2015 LP Special. I got it when Sam Ash was blowing the out pretty cheap.
I was going to bring it to my father’s house and rout it out myself next weekend but I decided to go ahead and get it done professionally. There’s a great shop nearby that I’ve been going to for years. And they do great work.
I’ve already taken off the G Force tuning thing and installed some locking Grover’s. I have a graphtech nut on order, a Schaller Signum tailpiece and I also ordered new pots because I’m taking out the PCB board. I hate that thing. It’s too bad that it has some crappy hardware from the factory because otherwise it’s really a nice guitar for the price. After this work is done it will most likely be my #2 guitar right after my Standard.

Good choice, that guitar might have some resell down the road and a good rout is smart.

Also I'm sure you've heard this before, but bag and lable original parts and hold on to them if you can for max resell.

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[Gtrjunior]

Re: P90 to Tone Zone P90 wiring help

Good choice, that guitar might have some resell down the road and a good rout is smart.

Also I'm sure you've heard this before, but bag and lable original parts and hold on to them if you can for max resell.

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Yeah, I’ll definitely label and keep the parts. I already sold the G Force system though. I couldn’t get that thing off the guitar fast enough...lol

 

[zionstrat]

Re: P90 to Tone Zone P90 wiring help

 

[AlexR]

Re: P90 to Tone Zone P90 wiring help

Routing out something where you are merely following the existing shape and only making it deeper is not overly hard. All that is needed is a pattern router bit - one with a bearing at the same diameter as the cutter. You simply put the router into the shape and move it until it hits the edge. Its worth getting most of the depth out before doing a shallow pass for the last cut for neatness.
Unless the professional is doing a finish on the new wood there is no more or less value removed as doing it yourself.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: P90 to Tone Zone P90 wiring help

Like AlexR said, following an existing rout and just making it deeper is just about the easiest thing to do on a guitar...even easier than changing strings.