Fire Burst
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Being a member of this great forum since a few months and thankful reader so far, I thaught I could give something back: a little guide on how to make a 50's wiring - using a replacement PCB :##.
I'm quite sure, most people who convert a PCB equipped Les Paul to 50‘s wiring want to get rid of the board and replace it with a harness. But there are some, who actually like the PCB and want to keep it. My idea was to replace the modern wiring push/pull pots PCB of my 2016 LP Standard with a modded PCB, fully reversible. Since I couldn't find much information on how to do it, this step by step guide may help others. Besides a second PCB, which I got used from ebay (LP 2017 Studio version with four 500 k audio taper pots, no push/pull) and replacement caps (just to get some mojo...), you need a soldering iron (mine is 60 W, set to 450 °C), some tin and soldering fluid, a little screwdriver to help getting the pots out and tweezers. And I don't recommend to mod a PCB without any soldering experience.
The control cavity before:
Carefully taking off the knobs of the p/p pots:
Release the quick connectors before loosening the potentiometer nuts:
Loosen the pot nuts and take the PCB out (only, because it's an ebay puchase):
I'm quite sure, most people who convert a PCB equipped Les Paul to 50‘s wiring want to get rid of the board and replace it with a harness. But there are some, who actually like the PCB and want to keep it. My idea was to replace the modern wiring push/pull pots PCB of my 2016 LP Standard with a modded PCB, fully reversible. Since I couldn't find much information on how to do it, this step by step guide may help others. Besides a second PCB, which I got used from ebay (LP 2017 Studio version with four 500 k audio taper pots, no push/pull) and replacement caps (just to get some mojo...), you need a soldering iron (mine is 60 W, set to 450 °C), some tin and soldering fluid, a little screwdriver to help getting the pots out and tweezers. And I don't recommend to mod a PCB without any soldering experience.
The control cavity before:
Carefully taking off the knobs of the p/p pots:
Release the quick connectors before loosening the potentiometer nuts:
Loosen the pot nuts and take the PCB out (only, because it's an ebay puchase):
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