Wiring question single pickup

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80's_Thrash_Metal

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I am getting another LP in the mail next week.

I am only going to wire in the bridge pickup and 1 volume.

Everything else will be dummy and only there for aesthetics.

My question is how does that get wired.

Can Someone draw me the diagram for my single 500k pot?
 
Oh you can use one pot to spin a split on that if you want

Center be both coils in standard wiring

Rolling pot to either side grounds one or the other coils


Just
If'n you want that
 
AniML said:
Just curious, if the components are there for show, why not wire it but simply not use it?
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I'm not the OP, but I also have dummy pots/knobs on most of my guitars.

Personally, I don't wire tone pots in because IMO pickups just sound worse whenever tone pots are wired in. At least for me, for the music that I play, through the rig that I'm playing. If I really need the load that tone pots create (which is rare, but it does happen), I'd rather just go down in pot value for my volume pots.

Second... wiring takes some practice to get right, and while I swap pickups in and out a lot, I still screw up and things don't work from time to time. So wiring stuff in is fairly stressful for me. So I'd rather solder as little as I can.

But that's just me.
 
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Although I use my tone pots, I get some people prefer not to have them. It sounded like the OP was getting a fully wired LP and installing a new bridge pup and wanting to remove the tone pot from the circuit. That part I follow.

Also sounded like the intent was to disconnect the switch, neck pup, neck vol and tone, but leave for aesthetics. I was just trying to understand the reason to dismantle the neck circuit rather than just leaving it unused.
 
Rex_Rocker said:
I'm not the OP, but I also have dummy pots/knobs on most of my guitars.

Personally, I don't wire tone pots in because IMO pickups just sound worse whenever tone pots are wired in. At least for me, for the music that I play, through the rig that I'm playing. If I really need the load that tone pots create (which is rare, but it does happen), I'd rather just go down in pot value for my volume pots.

Second... wiring takes some practice to get right, and while I swap pickups in and out a lot, I still screw up and things don't work from time to time. So wiring stuff in is fairly stressful for me. So I'd rather solder as little as I can.

But that's just me.
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Install a terminal block and never solder again.
 
AniML said:
Although I use my tone pots, I get some people prefer not to have them. It sounded like the OP was getting a fully wired LP and installing a new bridge pup and wanting to remove the tone pot from the circuit. That part I follow.

Also sounded like the intent was to disconnect the switch, neck pup, neck vol and tone, but leave for aesthetics. I was just trying to understand the reason to dismantle the neck circuit rather than just leaving it unused.
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I bought a naked Les Paul
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I never use a neck pickup
I never use a tone knob.
I never use a toggle switch obviously

So my thought was just wire in the bridge pipe on 1 single volume knob. That's it.
Everything else is just dummy and there for aesthetics.
 
I don't even really need a volume pot. My favorite setup is to have the neck pickup with volume and tone controls, but the bridge wired straight to the jack through the toggle switch. That doesn't work well with Duncans for me because they get pretty harsh and weird sounding without that mediation from the volume pot, and it's iffy on my Schecters because they're mid and upper mid heavy guitars without a lot of natural girth, but with BKPs in my Gibson style guitars it's magic.
 
AniML said:
Looks cool. What pickup did you go with?
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Well, I ordered a brand new distortion for it, it's my favorite pickup ever. It sounds perfect in my other Les Paul. And many many other guitars I abuse.

But when I got it all in and played it, it wasn't all that I was hoping for. For the first time in my life, I pulled out a Distortion and put in another pickup! (The horror!... I may need therapy over it...)

Aesthetically I figured I'd go for chrome, as I looked over handfuls of wine reds, and think that looks the best.
On my shelf at the moment I have a few 490s and i think a 498, and a set of Burstbuckers out of my explorer. So I tried the BB 3 .
To my surprise, it sounds very good! In this guitar.

So.... Long story to say Burstbucker 3.
 
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