davefromtheattic
02-14-2007, 08:26 PM
let the saga begin!
I bought a calibrated set of Bare Knuckle "Nailbomb" pickups to install into my Les Paul and started fitting them this afternoon. I removed the original pickups and thought it would be a straight forward swap. How wrong I was!
When I hooked them up the bridge pickup didn't work. I wasn't paying full attention while doing it and touched the capacitor with the soldering iron. It was after I heard a pop that I realised my mistake.
Realising this I grabbed another cap and stuck it on. No joy. I'll bullet point my troubleshooting;
- swapped the bridge to the neck vol and tone and it worked.
- tried the capacitor from the neck on the bridge controls and still no joy.
- wired it up for the 2 vol, 1 tone config with cap from neck on tone pot. Still no joy.
- used a multimeter to check the bridge vol pot and, right enough, shows 0 when on full and off the scale when completely off.
- tapping the connections from the 3 way toggle to the pots proved that the switch wiring is ok.
It's all pointing toward the pot being dodgy, but it's worked fine since I bought the guitar.
I am well stuck, anyone got any ideas?
I bought a calibrated set of Bare Knuckle "Nailbomb" pickups to install into my Les Paul and started fitting them this afternoon. I removed the original pickups and thought it would be a straight forward swap. How wrong I was!
When I hooked them up the bridge pickup didn't work. I wasn't paying full attention while doing it and touched the capacitor with the soldering iron. It was after I heard a pop that I realised my mistake.
Realising this I grabbed another cap and stuck it on. No joy. I'll bullet point my troubleshooting;
- swapped the bridge to the neck vol and tone and it worked.
- tried the capacitor from the neck on the bridge controls and still no joy.
- wired it up for the 2 vol, 1 tone config with cap from neck on tone pot. Still no joy.
- used a multimeter to check the bridge vol pot and, right enough, shows 0 when on full and off the scale when completely off.
- tapping the connections from the 3 way toggle to the pots proved that the switch wiring is ok.
It's all pointing toward the pot being dodgy, but it's worked fine since I bought the guitar.
I am well stuck, anyone got any ideas?