Jul 30

Wiring Kits Les

Posted on Friday, July 30, 2010 in Electric Guitar

Wiring Kits Les

Rewiring my Les Paul?

Hey im looking at rewiring my epip les paul and was just thinking about a few things;

1. Whats a good wiring kit i can get for it from in the UK?

2. How much will it change my tone as i dont use my tone pots, just the Vol (even tho it should all go through the tone pots anyway)

3. I’v never done this kinda thing b4 so is it a good idea to do it myself or should I get a shop to do it?

Any help would be great thanks!

I rewired my les paul 1969 Gibson with a pre-amp . Re-wiring will not change the sound nor the tone of the guitar in any manner whatsoever.

Having said this, it is the pots themselves that can alter the sound. Example, Gibson uses 500k pots and if you would switch to 250k, you would lose half the ouput of the guitar.

If you are just wiring the pots, that’s no big deal and again, it will not change anything. Just make extra sure that their are NO cold sodler which will cut the sound and nothing will work or, if you solder one place and the soldering touches an adjacet lef from one of the pots.

Enjoy

Here is the correct soldering if you plan to just use volume and no tone pots

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=2h_1v_3w