Jimmy Page Les Paul Wiring
Assemble the Guitar
Wire the Switch & Chassis/Mechanical Grounds
- Connect switch wiring
- Solder black ground wire and wire insulation from 3-way switch to copper foil in control cavity
- If aluminum tape was used, attach ground lug to end of wire and screw into foil
- Be sure to ground the wire insulation at one end only
- Connect white wire (bridge wire) to bridge volume pot lug 1
- Connect green wire (neck wire) to neck volume pot lug 1
- Connect red wire to output jack hot lug (connected to output jack tip). Use continuity meter to determine which lug if you do not know
- Connect chassis/mechanical grounds
- Solder ground wire from bridge to copper foil
- If aluminum tape was used, attach ground lug to end of wire and screw into foil
- Solder ground wires from pups
- Cut bridge cable to length
- Leave about 6 inches of slack
- Carefully strip outer insulation to expose leads
- Be sure not to cut through inner wires
- Expose about 2” of the leads
- Strip 1/8” insulation from each lead
- Pre-tin each lead and bare ground wire with some solder
- Solder bare wires together
- Place heat shrink on piece of black wire
- slide up wire away from end
- Solder wire to pickup ground wires
- Slide heat shrink onto exposed wires and secure with heat
- Solder black wire to copper foil
- If aluminum tape was used, attach ground lug to end of wire and screw into foil
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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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