Well, I will tell you what I did. I can't find my mistake.
I am using the typical vintage silver braided wire.
3 way toggle switch, Les Paul.
One side of the toggle has three lugs and the other has two.
On the 2 lug side, I pinch them together and connect the inner wiring to it, so that the wire is soldered to both lugs.
On the 3 pronged side, I take two braided wires and solder one to each outside lug. I then take a black cloth grounding wire and pull out the inner wire. I solder this bare wire to the center lug.
Then, in order to ground the 3 wires that I have soldered to the toggle switch, I bunch them all together and wrap the soldered wire at the middle prong around all three. I solder this wire around them.
I run the two outer braided wires down to the pots, ground them to the back of the appropriate pot and solder them to the appropriate lug.
The braided wire soldered to the two pronged side of the switch is the hot that goes to the jack. I solder the inner wire to the hot prong on the jack and ground the outer braided shield to the grounding lug on the jack.
That is how I interpret it and it doesn't work. I have tried wiring it llike this a million times but can't get anything. I am obviously missing something. I wired it using the modern style, with a 4 conductor wire and it works fine. I am trying to get my guitar all vintage though like the simplicity of the braided wires.
Can anyone tell me where I am wrong?
