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freethought Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-17-07 02:06 AM
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A question to DU guitarists re: electric guitar wiring
Greetings Folks. A question for those who might be adept at wiring up an electric. I have done a few strats but it is pretty easy and straight forward.

Recently though, I acquired an Epiphone Les Paul. A beautiful instrument that plays great. Some time ago I purchased a pair of Rio Grande humbuckers which a supposed to their version of vintage Gibson humbuckers or PAFs. I brought them out to get ready to mount them in the Epiphone. One of them is a two-conductor (neck)and can't be wired to split or anything. The other (bridge) is a 4 conductor and can be wired to split the coil.

I have been looking far and wide for a schematic that will show the proper way to wire them up. I know you can do single coils and humbuckers, dual humbuckers and triple humbuckers but all that I have seen are all two conductor or all 4 conductor, not a combination of 2 and 4.

Does any one know if these to pickups can be mounted and wired together? Or do I have to replace one of the pickups to get this guitar to make sound.

Note: The original pickups are dual stock pickups wired with a three position switch, no splitting or other variations were wired in. I didn't want to take them out until I had all the info I needed.

Thanks in advance.
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-17-07 01:46 PM
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1. Maybe here
Here is a friend of mine that does a lot of good work. If you go to his site you can find a lot of diagrams and if the one you need isn't there, I'm sure you could write to him and he will help you out.

http://www.guitartechcraig.com/index.htm

Go to that link and on the left click on "diagrams". He has 20 or so configurations. Hope that helps.

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freethought Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-18-07 12:35 AM
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2. Thanks! Coincidentally I did find something
that had a schematic that showed a way to wire up the combination. Apparently, in order to do it this particular way you wind up having the bridge and neck pickups play out of phase when the switch is in the middle position and you can split the coil on the bridge pickup.

The source I found it on said that this is the way Jimmy Page had his Les Paul wired up and the tonal variety could be heard in the recordings. Maybe it's true and maybe it isn't but it is something. No reason not to try it out.

Thanks again!
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