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Re: Thanks!!!!

10/21/2004 10:26 PM
Borsanova	Re: Thanks!!!! I'm glad to help you. I want to suggest you not to use the modification with both pickups on. In this case your bridge pickup is connected on both sides to the hot wire, but not to the ground. This is why you won't hear it in this position. I've done this modification on a guitar with gold covered humbuckers, soldering a new ground to the pickup covers, and I think it is absolutely safe. It doesn't even add any hum. In your case the pickup is with plastic covers and inside it the hot wire is also isolated, so you have a double protection. Moreover, the voltage in eledtric guitars is very low and if you touch the hot wire you probably won't even feel it. So don't worry, but since it is useless anyway, just take it as a rule to avoid this combination. I'm reflecting on this aspect, because I recently studied the Jimmy Page Les Paul. I found that he (or at least Gibson who made the special edition) did the same modification in a slighty different way by shutting off the pickup selector when you choose the serial mode. Thus, when the guitar is in serial mode, the pickup selector has to stay all the time in the same position, because otherwise the guitar won't make any sound. I actually don't think that this is very useful. At least your guitar and mine offer the advantage that we can still use the pickup selector(s) to choose an alternative mode (with only one pickup) while the guitar is in serial mode. Since I am planning to modify my Les Paul in a similar way, I would like to read other opinions on this aspect.

10/21/2004 10:26 PM

Borsanova

Re: Thanks!!!!

I'm glad to help you.

I want to suggest you not to use the modification with both pickups on. In this case your bridge pickup is connected on both sides to the hot wire, but not to the ground. This is why you won't hear it in this position. I've done this modification on a guitar with gold covered humbuckers, soldering a new ground to the pickup covers, and I think it is absolutely safe. It doesn't even add any hum. In your case the pickup is with plastic covers and inside it the hot wire is also isolated, so you have a double protection. Moreover, the voltage in eledtric guitars is very low and if you touch the hot wire you probably won't even feel it. So don't worry, but since it is useless anyway, just take it as a rule to avoid this combination.

I'm reflecting on this aspect, because I recently studied the Jimmy Page Les Paul. I found that he (or at least Gibson who made the special edition) did the same modification in a slighty different way by shutting off the pickup selector when you choose the serial mode. Thus, when the guitar is in serial mode, the pickup selector has to stay all the time in the same position, because otherwise the guitar won't make any sound. I actually don't think that this is very useful. At least your guitar and mine offer the advantage that we can still use the pickup selector(s) to choose an alternative mode (with only one pickup) while the guitar is in serial mode.

Since I am planning to modify my Les Paul in a similar way, I would like to read other opinions on this aspect.