Re: Triple Shot Wiring for Bill Lawrence (Bill and Becky, not the other guy) Humbucke
Before you get started wiring, you should box that L500L up and send it to me. I have a Bill/Becky Lawrence L500XL with your name on it...Let me know..
Actually, I'm pretty sure mine is an XL, but I honestly can't remember at this point (been over a decade).
I originally had an XL and L as bridge and neck humbuckers in a 12 string Tele I built. Both pickups were wired in parallel for sweet, clear 12 string tones. I actually had a Bill Lawrence Q-filter on one of the pots to really change the inductance and resonant frequency to pull out an almost acoustic tone. I never bonded with that guitar and ended up selling off some of the parts. At one point, I also sold one of the pickups. I think it was the L, but I'm not 100% certain.
Either way, the remaining pickup isn't just in a different guitar, but it's wired in the more traditional series humbucker manner (at the moment). It's a USACG Strat with a H-S-S configuration. I think there may still be a picture of it on the USACG Gallery page. It's sort of a tiger's eye quilt burst, rear route, Hipshot bridge, pau ferro board thingy. The neck and middle are older Bill Lawrence L-250HP pickups (dual blade type single coils that more or less inspired Barden a few decades ago). The bridge has that humbucker. I liked the H-S-S configuration with an L-500 as a nod to early '80s Alex Lifeson stuff.
I used to have three push-
push pots on it for various wiring mods, but eventually realized why nobody uses those. THEY FAIL! Push-
pull always worked better for me. Live and learn! The original wiring went like this:
- Master volume knob - push for connecting neck and bridge ala G&L 7 way wiring (like my old Comanche)
- Master tone knob - push for making the neck and middle in series ala Lifeson's Hentorcaster
- Master Q-filter knob - push for coil splitting the L-500 humbucker
That wiring was a bit silly, especially when two of the three push-push switches went in a few years. I figure I'll save a lot of hassle by using a Triple Shot on that bridge humbucker. Then, I'll just go with a push-pull or two for whatever else I want.
But I can't do it without knowing what the color conversions are for the pickup.
