

Solder a wire from the back of the bridge Tone control to the back of the neck Tone control. Then, solder the capacitor from Tab 2 of the neck Tone control to the back of the neck Tone control.ĭo the same for the bridge Volume and Tone controls. Solder a wire from Tab 1 of the neck Volume control to Tab 3 of the neck Tone control. Solder a wire from the only tab on the right side of the three-way switch to the back of the neck Volume control. We will leave the sleeve tab of the output jack alone for now. Solder a wire from Tab 2 of the three-way switch to the tip tab of the Output Jack. Solder a wire from Tab 2 of the neck Volume control to Tab 1 of the three-way switch, and solder a wire from Tab 2 of the bridge Volume control to Tab 3 of the three-way switch. We can number the tabs on the left from top to bottom: 1, 2, and 3. Look at the bottom of the Toggle switch and arrange it so there are three tabs on the left side and one tab on the right. You might also like this HumbuckerSoup article: Telecaster Three-Way Switch Wiring Wiring Up the Three-way Switch Do the same thing for the bridge pickup and the bridge Volume control. Solder the Ground wire from the neck pickup to the back of the neck Volume control. Solder a wire from Tab 3 of the neck Volume control to the back of the neck Volume control. Solder the Hot wire of the neck pickup to Tab 1 of the neck Volume control. If you hold the Volume pot upside down with the tabs pointing down, we can number them 1, 2, and 3. The Gibson Les Paul circuit gives each pickup its own Volume and Tone control, and now that we have the Hot and the Ground wire from each pickup we can wire them to the Volume control the same as we would a single coil pickup. Solder together the Red and the White wires and tape them off, then solder together the Green and the Bare wires. We’re just going to worry about the standard configuration in this guide. This allows you to split the pickups or wire them in other unique ways. If you have different colors than the ones presented here, you might have to look up your specific pickups’ “Wiring Code.” The pickups have this many wires because the humbuckers are actually two single coil pickups and these wires give you access to each of the coils. Each pickup is going to have five wires: Bare, Green, White, Red, and Black. There are two humbucker pickups and we will wire both of them up the same way. You might also like this HumbuckerSoup article: Stratocaster Five-Way Switch Wiring – Basic Guitar Electronics Let’s Start with the Pickups While we’re at it, we’ll take a look at the rest of the circuit as well - the two humbuckers, the three-way switch, two Volume controls, two Tone controls, two capacitors, and the output jack. Let’s take a look at Les Paul three-way switch wiring.
