Pickup Connectors?

[magillver]

Good Morning! I'm trying to do some A-to-B comparisons of pickups in my guitar, and was wondering if anyone has tried using small connectors inside the guitar, in between the pickup and volume/tone pots, in order to swap out pickups quickly? I'm looking at Switchcraft 125 & 780 connectors. Thoughts?

 

[Artie]

Those would work, but the Liberator would be a much simpler solution. https://www.seymourduncan.com/single...-potentiometer

 

[magillver]

Interesting! Thanks, Artie, I've never seen these before...

 

[Artie]

Duncan needs to put these on their front page.

 

[magillver]

My only challenge with these, is that I'm working predominantly with hollow-bodies, without simple access ports, so I'd have to remove the pot through the F-hole every time I'd want to swap a pickup...

 

[Artie]

My only challenge with these, is that I'm working predominantly with hollow-bodies, without simple access ports, so I'd have to remove the pot through the F-hole every time I'd want to swap a pickup...

Ouch! That's one of those situations where the Liberator might not be a good solution. In that case, what I might do different, is look for smaller plastic disconnects. Those metal one's will flop around inside and make objectional noise.

Let me see what reasonable alternatives I can come up with. And others will chime in shortly.

 

[Mincer]

I've used Molex connectors for pickguard-mounted electronics. They might work here, too.

 

[beaubrummels]

if it's just testing and not going to stay in for a while, I might try a mini-terminal strip hanging out of the F-hole, just to audition the pickups and swap them around. Or could just twist the wires together and put a dot of solder and tape them, the clip the solder dot off when done. (Not sure how long you intend to audition/play the test pickups.)

 

[magillver]

Hey Artie, the reason I'm looking at the metal housing, as to plastic, is to maintain the the shielding...

 

[magillver]

Hi Beau, that thought crossed my mind as well, but if I find a sound that I want to keep playing with for a while, it would be nice to not have to go back in and make the wiring more permanent (guitarist ADD being what it is)

 

[Artie]

Hey Artie, the reason I'm looking at the metal housing, as to plastic, is to maintain the the shielding...

Yup. But noise usually comes in from long unshielded wire. The tiny amount exposed from a simple connector would be no different than the lugs of a volume and/or tone pot. And the output jack lugs. But, I get it. Every little bit counts.

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

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[magillver]

Good morning, Jack! Those look like really interesting connectors, I'll look them up. Thanks!