RnB
Member
- Joined
- Nov 9, 2004
- Messages
- 831
I have an '85 335 Dot Neck w/ Shaw('s) installed. Purchased it about 20 years ago. I upgraded the pots to 500k long ago, but the orig ceramic caps are still in place. I have not messed w/ the pickups. Recently, the neck pickup was cutting in & out. I tracked it down to a frayed wire causing the pup to short-out. I managed to splice the wires back together w/ the piece of wire that was hardly long enough coming out of the cavity from the pot. Kinda hokey, but it's working once again & the guitar sounds good.
While working on it, I measured the resistance & was surprised to see how low they read out (7.23k & 7.25k). There is a Shaw ink stamp on the neck pup (379), but none on the bridge, only pat #'s. Since the lead neck wire was broken, this got me thinking of doing an overhaul w/ a new wiring harness. I have an RS upgrade kit, black beauty caps & a few humbucker sets on hand. At this time, I'd also like to add 'connectors' to the leads & pup wires so I can facilitate pickup changes if I so feel...w/o having to yank the whole harness.
Pickups I have: Seth Lovers, SD 50th Anniv Seths, ThroBak SLE-101 Ltd's & a couple of Genesis sets. I don't want the guitar to become any brighter than it already is. I guess what I'm looking for is everyone's thoughts/suggestions on this? I would like to see a little more output rather than the 7.2k readings.
I also got these Sprague Caps & I'm not sure if they are the correct value...?
While working on it, I measured the resistance & was surprised to see how low they read out (7.23k & 7.25k). There is a Shaw ink stamp on the neck pup (379), but none on the bridge, only pat #'s. Since the lead neck wire was broken, this got me thinking of doing an overhaul w/ a new wiring harness. I have an RS upgrade kit, black beauty caps & a few humbucker sets on hand. At this time, I'd also like to add 'connectors' to the leads & pup wires so I can facilitate pickup changes if I so feel...w/o having to yank the whole harness.
Pickups I have: Seth Lovers, SD 50th Anniv Seths, ThroBak SLE-101 Ltd's & a couple of Genesis sets. I don't want the guitar to become any brighter than it already is. I guess what I'm looking for is everyone's thoughts/suggestions on this? I would like to see a little more output rather than the 7.2k readings.
I also got these Sprague Caps & I'm not sure if they are the correct value...?