LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF HUM!!! HELP!!!

[Modular1]

I've not felt the need to look inside the wiring cavity on my new lp trad. is it going to have one of those type of circuit boards inside? How do people go about changing the pups? Do you all cut the plugs off the ends of the pup leads?

[AndyR]

I've not felt the need to look inside the wiring cavity on my new lp trad. is it going to have one of those type of circuit boards inside? How do people go about changing the pups? Do you all cut the plugs off the ends of the pup leads?

I did in the first instance - messy, but works :D.

But then I wanted to change caps a few weeks/months later... that was beyond me... so I threw out the board and replaced it all with traditional stuff. I felt a bit more secure with the guitar once I'd done that, but that was probably my imagination.

For purely practical purposes, if you only want to change pups, I'd say the cutting the plugs and attaching them to the new pups is fine.

[Modular1]

Any idea if you can buy the plugs anywhere?

This would be a great selling point for Tims products if he could give the option to provide pickups with these plugs fitted. You might give people who are scared of soldering irons/warranty voiding, the peace of mind to jump in and change stock pups. It might even add resale value to the stock pups. I'll send him a pm.

[AndyR]

I believe they are standard plugs, but I could't figure out which ones you'd need (and I didn't fancy acquiring the tool for wiring them at the time, anyway).

I'm sure I've seen a post on here somewhere from someone who could identify the plugs and even posted a link - but I can't find it (didn't look too hard though, I'm at work!)

Whether BKP want to provide it as an option though... could be fraught with difficulties, even for the people it might help (there's the "how long do you want the pickup cable to be?" question for starters)

[Philly Q]

I've not felt the need to look inside the wiring cavity on my new lp trad. is it going to have one of those type of circuit boards inside?

I'd like to think that in a Traditional they'd stick to old-fashioned wiring.  But with Gibson, anything is possible....

[Oli]

Any idea if you can buy the plugs anywhere?

This would be a great selling point for Tims products if he could give the option to provide pickups with these plugs fitted. You might give people who are scared of soldering irons/warranty voiding, the peace of mind to jump in and change stock pups. It might even add resale value to the stock pups. I'll send him a pm.

The connectors will be fairly readily available, and at a reasonable cost too-- the issue comes with the crimp tool that is required to crimp the pins onto each of the wires. Often these crimp tools often cost £100s just for the hand tool to crimp the connection properly! Obviously you can bodge it with a pair of needle-nosed pliers, but it isn't as good/reliable/professional :(

[Modular1]

The connectors will be fairly readily available, and at a reasonable cost too-- the issue comes with the crimp tool that is required to crimp the pins onto each of the wires. Often these crimp tools often cost £100s just for the hand tool to crimp the connection properly! Obviously you can bodge it with a pair of needle-nosed pliers, but it isn't as good/reliable/professional :(

the crimpers will not cost any more than £50 tops. we have a set at work anyway.