Wiring a Les Paul

Re: Wiring a Les Paul

Hmmm . . . thats classic Les Paul wiring. Could you be more specific about what your questioning?
 
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ArtieToo said:
Hmmm . . . thats classic Les Paul wiring. Could you be more specific about what your questioning?
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Sure. Why is the cap doubled back to the top of the tone pot and soldered to ground?

My first thought was to do '50s wiring, but that would defeat my purpose of independant modern wiring and tone controls. I could understand if the cap was wired to ground across to the Volume ground. But doubling back on the tone pot? I don't get it.
 
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I'm not sure what you mean by "doubling back". There's only one ground. As long as they're all connected together, it doesn't really matter where the physical solder connection is. A tone control is a pot, wired as a rheostat, in series with a cap. Its a high-pass filter to ground.

I'm still not sure I'm following your question.

Then again . . . it's Friday the 13th, and I'm testing some barley and hops chemistry. :friday:
 
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ArtieToo said:
I'm not sure what you mean by "doubling back". There's only one ground. As long as they're all connected together, it doesn't really matter where the physical solder connection is. A tone control is a pot, wired as a rheostat, in series with a cap. Its a high-pass filter to ground.

I'm still not sure I'm following your question.

Then again . . . it's Friday the 13th, and I'm testing some barley and hops chemistry. :friday:
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You have answered my question though. Same end result, just a different location of soldering it. By what you have said, the cap can go across or circle back from the tone pot ear to the tone pot top. Look carefully at the diagram.
http://http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_pickups/Supplies:_Wiring_kits/Wiring_Kit_for_Gibson_Les_Paul_Guitar.html?tab=Instructions#details

Compare it to STEWMAC pic #0133. Do you see the clarification?
 
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Tone controls can be more confusing then they should be. For example, look at this diagram. All of these tone controls work exactly the same way. It's just a matter of "wiring".
 

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Re: Wiring a Les Paul

Just to confuse the issue more, I think there is a little difference in the "order" in which they are wired. I tend to like the cap hooked to the volume control side, rather than between the tone pot and ground. But that's just for a crazy ocd guitar wiring nut.
 
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