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Pete Townsend LesPaul Wiring
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Pete Townsend LesPaul Wiring
Hey Guys i have to wire up this and was wondering if any one has seen one in rel life and has some pictures
also does anyone know the best way to do the turrets/ tags that are on the top of 2 of the pots and in the centre that the tone cap connects to
@gerryhayes if you have any ideas on the best way to do this that would be great
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Hey Andy
The terminal strips should be (reasonably) straightforward. If you have a google for something like 3 lug terminal strip you should find some stuff that will do the trick. I’m sure you’ll get them from Mouser but most amp part suppliers will probably have them too.
Haven’t worked on one of these before and I’m not certain what type of switcraft switches those are. I’ve never seen it specified anywhere and those switches can be pretty flexible in how they’re built up. I’d bet that it might be difficult to identify these exactly and source them if you can.
You can try to build your own if you cannibilise a number of other switchcrafts. You can take them apart and put them back together in different ways so they switch as you want. It’s fiddly but possible (those two linked leaves in the phase switch might be challenging, though)
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If your customer isn’t completely wedded to Switchcraft, it might be possible to substitute something like this switch instead. It’s a similar size and look (more or less) and it’s a 4PDT ON/ON/ON so has a lot of flexibility. It might avoid having to build some Switchcraft Frankenswitches.
Maybe. 😄
If this switch is a runner, things should become a bit easier.
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Unfortunately it has to be the franken switches. Fortunately the are already there.
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On the connecting strips it says about top and bottom . Would the wires not be able to just be joined!
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Yep. No reason why not. Sorry — thought you were looking for some of the connector things.
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I have some tag board just wasn’t quite sure how the were mounted and wired etc
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The terminal strips usually have one lug with a right angle which can be soldered to the top of the pot or whatever. That lug then automatically becomes a ground lug. The others are just connection points for whatever other wires are knocking about.
The diagram isn’t the most clear thing I’ve ever seen. I’m not sure the wires labelled ‘top-term’ and ‘bottom-term’ are referring to what they’re supposed to (that or I’m missing something). I think I’d try to redraw a little more clearly before kicking off if I was working on this.
It looks to me like the coil tap splits the coil in two of its three positions (including the illustrated middle position) and I think the other switch is doing two things. Flipped to the right, I think it’s cutting the neck and bridge signals in order to solo the middle pickup. In the middle should be normal and over left the middle pickup gets phase flipped (although I haven’t been masochistic enough to parse out all the switch wiring to confirm that’s absolutely correct). Yet. Hopefully, I won’t need to but let me know if you need a hand.
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