Plug N play

[Artie]

That's some pretty neat wiring. But I don't get what the Molex connector is doing. The wiring inside the cavity looks to be complete as it is.

 

[solspirit]

Hadn't seen those before. The size is kinda big to fit a few in the pickup cavity, though. But I can see them working. While soldering isn't a difficult skill, I know from talking to many people that the unwillingness to learn that skill has kept a lot of people from pickup swapping.

It's not that I don't want to solder because I'll have to do it to set everything up initially.
I just want to set up a few pick guards differently for the strat and be able to swap the pups and pots in the Lp quicker in case I don't like why I've done.

 

[Mincer]

Well, that's the thing. I am fine with soldering but even I can see how cool a non-soldering-based terminal system could be. Active pickup users have been using a system for years.

 

[beaubrummels]

That's some pretty neat wiring. But I don't get what the Molex connector is doing. The wiring inside the cavity looks to be complete as it is.

THe connector is in between the pickups and all the cavity wiring. The cavity wiring is the original Gibson wiring. I clipped the original pickup wires about 1-2 inches from the pots, just where they enter the body/channel to the pickups. The reason is if I get rid of the guitar in the future, I'll just restore the original pickups by soldering them back into the wires coming off the pots, same way you would extend pickup wires that are too short, that way the original cavity wiring remains untouched.

 

[Artie]

Ah. Ok. I see now.

 

[Artie]

It's not that I don't want to solder because I'll have to do it to set everything up initially.
I just want to set up a few pick guards differently for the strat and be able to swap the pups and pots in the Lp quicker in case I don't like why I've done.

I may have misunderstood the original idea. I thought you were going to swap pups in the same pickguard. Making the wire that goes to the output jack plug-'n-play makes perfect sense. I've done that on a couple guitars.

 

[solspirit]

Ah. Ok. I see now.

I was wondering the same thing

 

[ehdwuld]

I used the molex for some strat guards
but now have moved on to the ones above

There's lots of room under a pickguard if you cram it

 

[solspirit]

I used the molex for some strat guards
but now have moved on to the ones above

There's lots of room under a pickguard if you cram it

They look pretty cool