wiring for a G&L

[stevie_bees]

I have just purchased a G&L Legacy off Ebay. I believe it has SD vintage alnico staggered pups fitted, and wired as on a traditional strat ie no tone control for bridge pup. Is there any reason that I can't rewire the guitar to the PTB setup that is standard on G&L guitars. I don't know whether the impedence of the SD pups differ from G&L's or if the pots are the same value, or even if I need to add capacitors to the circuit to get the PTB circuit. Also, would I still be able to fit a treble bleed mod to this setup up?
Any help would be gratefully received.
Cheers

 

[Curly]

Re: wiring for a G&L

the G & L site has a wiring diagram for a Legacy

the tone pots are 500K and 1M

I play both Legacies, and regular strats, and although I like the idea of the PTB in theory, in practice, I prefer a stock wiring with a jumper for the bridge pickup

if you just want tone on the bridge, you can do that with a small wire jumper, as shown here:

 

[stevie_bees]

Re: wiring for a G&L

Thanks for that. I tried to get the wiring diagram on the G&L site, but it wouldn't load the page. Do you use a treble bleed capacitor with this circuit?

 

[Curly]

Re: wiring for a G&L

that's a stock wiring diagram

the treble bleed diagram might be in the Support/ Schematic section of the main site, or if not there, in the Vault section

 

[stevie_bees]

Re: wiring for a G&L

Cheers. I am evaluating the Legacy against a 97 Strat Plus with gold Lace Sensors. The Strat has more oomph when soloing, but the sounds in pos'ns 2 & 4 just don't cut it. The Legacy sounds gorgeous in those pos'ns, but I just need a little something extra when soloing. The Strat has the TBX control. I am considering fitting a TBX to the Legacy to broaden the sounds on the bridge/middle pups. Any thoughts?

 

[stevie_bees]

Re: wiring for a G&L

Also, how much of a difference in sound does having staggered polepieces on a guitar with a flatter fingerboard radius? Would I be better with flush polepieces?