Jimmy Page Les Paul Wiring
Pre-Wire Control Pots and Output Jack
The Workboard
- Making the Wiring Workboard
- Remove knobs from tone and volume controls from the guitar
- Remove access plate on back of guitar
- Remove strings, bridge, tailpiece, pots, output jack, 3-way switch and pickups
- Hold plywood (or cardboard) against front of guitar and trace control pot holes
- Label each hole
- Bridge volume
- Bridge tone
- Neck volume
- Neck tone
- Drill 3/8” holes in the workboard where you traced the holes
- Make hole for output jack
- Place ruler over neck volume hole and bridge tone hole
- Measure 6” from neck volume hole (leave slack for putting jack through body) and put mark.
- Drill 3/8” hole on mark
- Insert pots and output jack in the workboard
- Use Ultra Fine Point Sharpie pin and label all lugs on push/pull switches
- Remove nuts and washers from pot shafts
- Push shafts down through holes and secure with washers and nuts
- When completed, you should see the backs of the pots and the labels on the workboard.
- Turn the pots so that the lugs face each other
- Bridge pot lugs face each other
- Volume pot lugs face each other
- Remove nuts and washers from output jack
- Insert output jack in workboard with tip facing up and secure with nut (the washer might not fit).
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Bob Pittman
Brookline, MA
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01.01.2009
- Introduction to Jimmy Page Les Paul Wiring
Preventing Ground Loops
Getting Ready, Tools, Parts
Pre-Wiring: The Workboard
Pre-Wiring: Prep the Pots
Pre-Wiring: Pots and Output Jack & Signal Wiring
Pre-Wiring: Signal Ground Wiring Wiring
Pre-Wiring: Three-Way Switch
Shielding the Guitar Control Cavities
Install Switch, Pickups and Pot Assembly
Wire the Switch & Chassis/Mechanical Grounds
Wire the Output Jack & Pickups
Testing Your Work
- Introduction to Jimmy Page Les Paul Wiring
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