Wire Modification for 2 pickups les paul
While some might argue about how ‘useful’ it is to put a third pickup in a Les Paul or SG, I’ll hear no arguments over how cool it looks. There’s something so-wrong-it’s-right about it that gets me every time. It just looks cool. However, it’s hard not to feel that the wiring was just an afterthought at Gibson. The Three-Pickup Problem While Gibson went so far as to include a 3-way toggle switch that had been expanded with an additional contact, the problem is: it’s still a 3-way switch. It has three positions. This makes for an underwhelming experience on a three pickup guitar. Here’s the standard switching configuration: So you get: Neck Middle and Bridge Bridge That’s your lot. You can’t even change the middle pickup’s volume individually. Time to Mod the 3-Pickup Gibson There are a few different ways you can modify things on these guitars but my favourite is one of the more simple. We steal one of the tone controls (I like using the neck tone). We...