Baja Jimmy Page Les Paul #2 wiring diagram

bajaman · Post by **bajaman** » 02 Feb 2010, 08:57

hi folks
I was reading this article on the Gibson site:
http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electri ... onics.aspx
After searching the web i could not find a completewiring diagram that incorporates all the features, so i sat down and designed this:

edit: work still in progress after first build (see below), stay tuned!

I have not built it (yet) so it may not work correctly

I decided to wire the volume pots correctly though - you loose too much treble response when connecting the pickup to the wiper as some folks do.
All comments welcome

cheers
bajaman

lolbou · Post by **lolbou** » 02 Feb 2010, 13:37

Thanks Steve!

I was reading about it too since my wife has an Epiphone 1991 LP-300 which is in mint condition, and was thinking of rewiring it with nice new pickups...

Have you been here on Stewart-McDonalds? http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics ... ns#details Not as many features though...

Any ideas for switch type and mounting (and wiring?? hole through the body??)

Cheers!

bajaman · Post by **bajaman** » 02 Feb 2010, 19:11

not sure what the push button switches are under the scratchplate, but I did read somewhere that there is a small hole (or maybe more than one hole) cut in the side of the pickup ring and the wires are then fed through the pickup cavity to the control cavity.

Whether the switches are mounted on the body or the underside of the scratchplate, again I do not know.
cheers
bajaman

bajaman · Post by **bajaman** » 03 Feb 2010, 03:19

Just realised some of the wiring may be a bit confusing so I changed some of the colours to make it less ambiguous - diagram is still the same layout though

bajaman

JshDnls · Post by **JshDnls** » 08 Feb 2010, 07:45

This looks great, thanks Baja !
Would you know where to find push-push switches like this ?

sinner · Post by **sinner** » 08 Feb 2010, 11:08

JshDnls wrote: to find push-push switches like this ?

Banzai

JshDnls · Post by **JshDnls** » 08 Feb 2010, 11:33

There are enough switches at Banzai, but no dpdt push-push for the fingers.

lolbou · Post by **lolbou** » 08 Feb 2010, 12:01

These are basically the same as found in amplifiers for channel switching or so... I once needed one for a Marshall Valvestate 8080 mk1, and I had it from Marshall french distributor quite easily...

But I don't know where to buy these

... BTW I guess sinner was talking about the pots...

sinner · Post by **sinner** » 08 Feb 2010, 12:32

JshDnls wrote:There are enough switches at Banzai, but no dpdt push-push for the fingers.

I'm sorry. I was sure you was aking about pots with DPDT push push option

pmac7565 · Post by **pmac7565** » 08 Feb 2010, 20:10

This is such an interesting project. I find myself looking at the pile of amps in the corner...which one do I no longer need???

bajaman · Post by **bajaman** » 28 Feb 2010, 08:53

CAUTION: this wiring is NOT VERIFIED (yet).

I am just finishing my homemade Les Paul and decided to try this complex wiring BUT it does not work properly (yet

).
I am confident that I will get it to work properly - just need a little more time to figure it out

i will make the necessary connections to the diagram once it is working properly.
Sorry folks - I was a wee bit premature posting this.
cheers
bajaman

lolbou · Post by **lolbou** » 28 Feb 2010, 09:27

I edited your first post Steve...

Any pics of your guitar too?

Your own wood working or did you just reworked a guitar from an electronic point of view?

bajaman · Post by **bajaman** » 28 Feb 2010, 11:10

Thanks lolbou

The neck is a chinese Gibson Maestro maple with rosewood fingerboard and pearl dots etc.
The body is made from an old 60s mahogany dressing table that I bought from the Supershed ( it was destined for the rubbish dump / landfill but was rescued by the local council and resold ).
It cost me NZ$2.00, and gave me enough wood to build an SG body and a Les Paul body ( still got quite a bit of wood over too).
i will post some pictures of the finished guitar soon - all black hardware (except for the nickel pickup covers) - I sprayed the body with acrylic lacquer - left it natural, because it has beautiful amber grain tints.
The pickups were wound using the Stew Mac humbucking kits - I may change the magnets to A2 or A4 though at some future stage. Front pickup is wound to PAF specifications (approx 8k ohms DC resistance) with AWG 42 plain enamel. The neck pickup is wound to 16k ohms with AWG 44 plain enamel. Pots are Bourns 500k log with push pull DPDT switches. The small push switches under the scratchplate are PCB mount - I think they were from a Peavey prototype amplifier but not sure.
cheers
bajaman

bajaman · Post by **bajaman** » 02 Mar 2010, 02:28

Here are some pictures of the finished guitar.
The third picture shows the 4 conductor cables and wiring terminations in the control cavity - the blue is just insulation tape over the copper foil to stop the pot terminals from shorting to ground.
The last picture shows a close up of the push switches under the scratchplate - again note the copper foil shielding.

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The amended wiring diagram is as follows: and it works real nice too and gives a huge range of tones. When using the series (both humbuckers connected in series with each other) push switch under the scratchplate there is no sound when the selector switch is set to the neck position

and the push pull single coil switches on the tone pots overide the series /parallel push pull switches on their respective volume pots.
You can get that Peter Green tone as well as a very nice clean sounding single coil in or out of phase tone when using the toggle switch in the middle position.
Took me a while to wire it all up but was well worth the effort.

Cheers
bajaman

bajaman · Post by **bajaman** » 02 Mar 2010, 02:49

here are some pictures the wife took - spot my 12 year old dog Elvis supervising the backyard build

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the last picture shows a spare slab of mahogany from the piece of furniture left over
cheers
bajaman

sinner · Post by **sinner** » 02 Mar 2010, 06:38

You're multi talented Steve! Great job

sirsteven88 · Post by **sirsteven88** » 23 Dec 2010, 06:40

Here's the accurate Jimmy Page #2 wiring including the 2 buttons under the pickguard. The tone knobs are the coil taps, the volume knobs do the series parallel trick to each individual pickup. The button towards the neck puts the pickups in series with eachother and the button towards the bridge reverses the phase of the bridge pickup.

GuitarlCarl · Post by **GuitarlCarl** » 25 Dec 2010, 19:36

Yep. that wiring diagram from seymour duncan works...
I just wired some cats les paul with it for the local music shop...
I swap work for parts they 're cool like that.

NICE build on that LP Baja...
one o' these days I'll post some pics of the mutts I've hotrodded.
current fav to play is an Alvarez tele with a strat trem I put on it with a mini bucker in the neck and a 5 way switch...

skylark44 · Post by **skylark44** » 26 Dec 2010, 03:57

Nice work on that LP Bajaman (I love the black hardware, on a brown LP

)...anyways, what are you going to do with that leftover LP body? (let me know if you're interested in getting rid of it).

DrNomis · Post by **DrNomis** » 27 Dec 2010, 15:49

That Les Paul Guitar looks really cool Bajaman,you did a really good job on it,how does it sound and play?.....