Wiring diagram not matching up to guitar

still0fthenight

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I am trying to wire Suhr Doug Aldrich humbuckers in my 2010 gibson les paul traditional pro which has push/pull coil splits in the volume pots.

I am referring to this diagram:

https://docs.google.com/gview?embed...-content/uploads/2016/05/2H_3G_2VppSPL_2T.pdf

I am confused on how to wire the red+white and green+ground wire in the diagram because if you look at my pictures, I do not have whatever the 6 hole thing is that is on each volume pot. All I have are two legs above each volume pot as you can see in the pictures. Please let me know how I should wire.

For bridge and neck pickup, should I just do red+white on the left leg, and green+ground on the right leg?

Thanks.
 

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Re: Wiring diagram not matching up to guitar

I've never seen pots like those on the top. You could always order some push/pulls like the ones in the diagram.
 
Re: Wiring diagram not matching up to guitar

The "6 hole thing' is a normal push/pull switch using Duncan's colors. You have Gibson's variation on those pots, so you will have to figure out how those work. The other thing you need to know is the color codes for those humbuckers.
 
Re: Wiring diagram not matching up to guitar

I see. The current wiring is strange anyway. I just feel like gutting out the entire cavity and replacing with new pots and caps, matching the duncan wiring diagram as much as possible. I thought the color codes for suhr and duncan were the same anyways.

I might get these:
https://www.amazon.com/CTS-Short-Sh...pID=51-zXaQ60xL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

I am guessing red and white would go to either one of the C1 contacts. So I could do red on the top C1, and white on the bottom C1 separately?? Or would I have to solder both red+white together to only one of the C1 contacts?

UPDATE:

I just purchased four Bourns pots from amazon. I am going to gut the whole thing out and redo it according to duncans wiring diagram. Now I just need to find a high quality good capacitor but not sure which rating to get. Also, the pots in the picture I came to find out are SPST switch pots as can be seen here:

https://www.stewmac.com/Pickups_and...s/Potentiometers/CTS_Push-pull_Pots_SPST.html
 
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