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nick-ola

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« on: March 12, 2006, 10:59:27 AM »
Hello
I bought a nailbomb (bridge) 4 conductors alnico V and a MQ (P90 humbucker sized) neck for a guitar I'm building and I need help to wire everything.
I'm going to have 1 vol pot, 1tone pot (both 500k) and capacitors, 1 pickup switch (gibson LP style 3 ways). I don't really understand regular schematics so I prefer to work on pictures.
Here the pic of my PUs and components:


and here is another diagram you could use to draw the wires to the components for me... :oops:  :D


Thank you by advance

PhilKing

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« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2006, 02:30:39 PM »
Hope you can follow this, the 2 wires soldered together are green and white (like you have now),  the centre core from the MQ goes to the switch and the screen to earth.
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nick-ola

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« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2006, 04:53:54 PM »
Thank you that's great, very usefull!
What about the two capacitors do I need them and where?

nick-ola

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« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2006, 05:09:33 PM »
sorry I didn't see the capacitor on the tone pot...I guess I don't need the other one

PhilKing

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« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2006, 12:48:48 AM »
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sorry I didn't see the capacitor on the tone pot...I guess I don't need the other one


Only one is needed, it should be .02 or .047.
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Cattivo Ragazzo

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« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2006, 02:29:14 AM »
dunno, on my old pots there is a green square lollypop type thing on the tone, and on the volume there is a orange lollypop.

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« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2006, 04:59:15 PM »
you can use the other capacitor to conect the volume and tone as far as i know, i think you would then run an earth from the back of the volume to the back of the tone.

the second cap i mentioned above would go where phillking put the connecting wire for the two pots.

PhilKing

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« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2006, 05:35:23 PM »
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dunno, on my old pots there is a green square lollypop type thing on the tone, and on the volume there is a orange lollypop.


The 'orange lollypop' is a 0.001 cap, used as a treble bleed when you turn down the volume.  A lot of people (me included), think of these as tone killers.
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Cattivo Ragazzo

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« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2006, 06:24:23 AM »
It does? It's very tiny, should I take it off? What about the green one?

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« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2006, 09:44:51 AM »
Philking...I have a sg 2 tone 2 vol setup...has them orange lollypops on..is it worth removing them?
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