My LP is back home with some fancy new wiring

[metropolis_4]

My LP just got back from getting some much needed rejuvenation with my favorite luthier! After 5 years of hard gigging it was in desperate need of some attention.

- Frets leveled, crowned, and polished.
- Fretboard cleaned and conditioned.
- Pots all cleaned and wiring redone.
- Nut adjusted just a bit.

While it was there I had him do some wiring work I’ve had in mind. I’ve been wanting to experiment with Gretsch style wiring where I’ve got a master volume knob. So we went with this:

I’ve also been battling with the ‘61 Burstbuckers, I just don’t like the bridge. He had a Lollar Imperial at the shop so I had him put it in the bridge.


First impressions are very good! I love having a master volume, it’s everything I hoped it would be. And that Lollar is fantastic! I can already tell I’m gonna want to swap the neck pickup out for one. It’s the sound I’ve been wanting.

The guitar feels and plays sooooooo good with its fret job! I even let him talk me into not top wrapping and so far that’s working out fine for me… we’ll see.

I love this guitar so much. It’s just good to have it back home and playing so well again! It’s been my baby the past 5 years. We’ve been through a lot of gigs together.

As always, big shout out to Mike Patton at Eclipse Guitars for doing amazing work. Every time I get a guitar back from him it somehow feels, sounds, and plays better than I thought was possible

 

[dbagchee]

Wow that looks fantastic! I’ll have to give him a call soon - I have a couple of guitars that need some TLC.

 

[FuzzyAce]

That's a beauty, Met!

 

[spawnofthesith]

Epic!!

Will have to look up eclipse guitars… always love to find more skilled and reccomended luthiers in CO

 

[gearJunkie]

Great looking guitar!

I'm a big fan of the Lollar Imperials in my Novo Miris H2 and Shabat Lion. The only PAFs I like more are the Throbaks in my Novo Serus TC.

Glad to hear your baby is back home and ready for action. Enjoy!

 

[HotRats]

Is the master volume always in the path or does it work only when middle position and bridge pickups are selected?

 

[Eagle]

Post a pick of the wiring so we can figure out what is happening.

 

[newholland]

you telecastered it!

tbh, you fixed my main annoyance with lesters right there, and why i play teles now- i like it.

 

[metropolis_4]

Wow that looks fantastic! I’ll have to give him a call soon - I have a couple of guitars that need some TLC.

Epic!!

Will have to look up eclipse guitars… always love to find more skilled and reccomended luthiers in CO

He’s great! He’s not cheap and he’s not the fastest, but he does really good work. And he’s good people.

PM me if you’d like his number

 

[metropolis_4]

Is the master volume always in the path or does it work only when middle position and bridge pickups are selected?

Post a pick of the wiring so we can figure out what is happening.

I’ll try to find time to open it up later. The whole thing was an experiment, we decided to start here and give me some time to gig it a bit, then decide if we need to tweak anything later.

Basically the bridge is going straight to the switch, and the neck is going to its volume/tone then to the switch. From the switch it goes to the master volume/tone and out. All pots right now are 500k as a starting point.

So master is always master.

The weird thing is the neck going through a double load. I’m thinking about maybe trying a 1meg pot there, but it’s not as dramatic as I thought it might be. I do a lot of mimicking an archtop doing old school jazz comping and I thought it would be interesting to experiment with the double tone control. It also gives me the ability to either only adjust tone on the neck, or adjust master tone depending on if I want it to effect the bridge or not.

We’ll see once I’ve had some time to gig it, but first impressions are good

 

[DrewJD82]

As always, big shout out to Mike Patton at Eclipse Guitars for doing amazing work.

Damn, that dude can sing like that AND work on guitars?!?!?!?

 

[Mikael Dez]

My LP just got back from getting some much needed rejuvenation with my favorite luthier! After 5 years of hard gigging it was in desperate need of some attention.

- Frets leveled, crowned, and polished.
- Fretboard cleaned and conditioned.
- Pots all cleaned and wiring redone.
- Nut adjusted just a bit.

While it was there I had him do some wiring work I’ve had in mind. I’ve been wanting to experiment with Gretsch style wiring where I’ve got a master volume knob. So we went with this:

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I’ve also been battling with the ‘61 Burstbuckers, I just don’t like the bridge. He had a Lollar Imperial at the shop so I had him put it in the bridge.


First impressions are very good! I love having a master volume, it’s everything I hoped it would be. And that Lollar is fantastic! I can already tell I’m gonna want to swap the neck pickup out for one. It’s the sound I’ve been wanting.

The guitar feels and plays sooooooo good with its fret job! I even let him talk me into not top wrapping and so far that’s working out fine for me… we’ll see.

I love this guitar so much. It’s just good to have it back home and playing so well again! It’s been my baby the past 5 years. We’ve been through a lot of gigs together.

As always, big shout out to Mike Patton at Eclipse Guitars for doing amazing work. Every time I get a guitar back from him it somehow feels, sounds, and plays better than I thought was possible

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I love that top, holy shit.

 

[metropolis_4]

Damn, that dude can sing like that AND work on guitars?!?!?!?

Haha, I totally forgot about that Mike Patton!

I love that top, holy shit.

I love it too!

Crazy thing about this guitar is it was a birthday gift from my wife and she ordered it online straight from Guitar Center. So I guess luck of the draw. It’s also a really resonant one that sounds fantastic unplugged

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Damn, that dude can sing like that AND work on guitars?!?!?!?

I've heard he's so good he can do setups without even taking his boxing gloves off

 

[Chocol8]

The weird thing is the neck going through a double load. I’m thinking about maybe trying a 1meg pot there, but it’s not as dramatic as I thought it might be.

If you like the setup, use no load pots, or have him scrape the end of the traces to turn the pots into no load. With neck volume and tone on 10, you will just have the masters, turn them down and you get the double load sound.

 

[metropolis_4]

If you like the setup, use no load pots, or have him scrape the end of the traces to turn the pots into no load. With neck volume and tone on 10, you will just have the masters, turn them down and you get the double load sound.

That’s a really good idea! I hadn’t thought of that before