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Jimmy Page model pickups/electronics schematics?

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11/14/1997 4:58 AM
Stuart	Jimmy Page model pickups/electronics schematics? Does anybody know how the Gibson Jimmy Page model pickups/electronics are installed? Does anyone have a the schematics for it? Thanks Stuart

2/22/1998 10:06 PM

I've never seen a schematic for that, but I was looking into it last year when I was researching possible wiring combinations for my SG. As I understand it, Page's actual guitar had everything possible on it. Four push-pulls, and two miniswitches under the pickguard, six DPDT's total. This would give him control over at least six of the following wiring options: single coil or humbucker in bridge pickup, single coil or humbucker in neck pickup, series/parallel between the two coils of the bridge pickup, series/parallel between the two coils of the neck pickup, in/out of phase between the two coils of the bridge pickup, in/out of phase between the two coils of the neck pickup, series/parallel connection of the two pickups, and the two pickups in or out of phase with each other. I just went with four p/p's and humbuck/single for each pickup, and series/parallel and in/out of phase between the two pickups. The wirings aren't too hard to work out, once you are familiar with the basic theory. E-mail me the info on how many switches you are willing to install and which of the above wiring options you want, and I'll make up a schematic for you.

2/23/1998 3:34 AM

David:

    My impression of the wiring on the new JP guitar is that it is similiar to the Schector SuperRock harness from the mid 70's, which used 4 Schector Omni-Pots (push-pull with 2 sets of NC contacts and 2 sets of NO contacts). I wired up one of my LP's with this setup, although I plan to revise it so that the split coil blend positions will be humbucking.

    With the SuperRock harness, the 2 tone controls would split the coils when pulled out, the lead volume control would reverse polarity between the 2 pickups and the rhythm volume pot would disable the selector switch and enable series linkage between the 2 pickups.

    Do you know of a good aftermarket source for push-pull pots with long bushings (for a LP)? I guess you could always order a set from Gibson but they'd probably charge an arm and a leg (or would that be two arms and 2 legs for all 21 possible combinations?)

Steve Ahola

2/23/1998 3:33 PM
David Gray	I've never seen them with long bushings. The superrock harness sounds like effectively the same circuit I use. I'm sure it's nice with the harness, unlike my rat's nest control cavity.

3/16/1998 8:25 AM
liam	They are available with long bushings, but much rarer than standard. Gibson must have them for the JP Les Paul. Ashley Pangbourne used to use them in his "phase-switching" mod on Les Pauls. Don't know where he got them from. On that matter - he used to get phase switching on two humbuckers with virtually no volume drop, and without batteries. Anyone know how to do that?

3/16/1998 10:03 PM
Steve Morrison	- he used to get phase switching on two humbuckers with virtually no volume drop, and without batteries. Anyone know how to do that? You could try wiring it up in such a way that the pickups end up in series when they're out of phase.

5/26/1998 10:40 PM
Steve A.	All: Torres' Newletter #11 mentions that he now has long-bushing LP p-p pots for $14.95. You may want to check with him to see exactly how long the bushing is because with the Schector Omni-Pots, one pot position on my Nashville-made 1975 LP required routing out and removing the pot plate. Steve Ahola

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