Sat Jan 22, 2022 10:25 pm
Sun Jan 23, 2022 7:37 am
Sun Jan 23, 2022 9:08 am
sam wrote:Are you planning to restore with G&L pickups?
Sun Jan 23, 2022 10:32 am
Sun Jan 23, 2022 10:44 am
yowhatsshakin wrote:Lucky,
I am somewhat intrigued by the "SNEEK" in the tremolo cavity. Wonder whether it is a misspelling of "sneak". Have you by any chance also taken the neck off to look at date stamps (if present)?
yowhatsshakin wrote:Depending on what you find there, bringing it back to its original state might entail installing a set of SD SSH-2 which G&L used until they had fully developed their own CLF-100 pickups. The SD's were still used even in 1994. And although not advertised as such, enough early Legacy guitars left the factory with a more traditional wiring harness which, as you undoubtedly know, involved treble cut controls on the middle and neck pickup, not the bridge pickup. Thing is, instead of a triplet of 250kΩ AT pots, these still use the same pots for the PTB circuit, including an 1MΩ Reverse AT on the middle pickup, which leads to an anemic control over the tone.
- Jos
Sun Jan 23, 2022 4:37 pm
Sun Jan 23, 2022 5:19 pm
bigjim711 wrote:Sweet deal!
You know... S-500 pickups might just fit in that pickguard. You can probably use a push-pull tone pot like the imports rather than drilling a hole for a toggle or getting another pickguard. Either way I dig it. You can't go wrong with good ole' sunburst.
You could probably throw those pickups and pots in a cheap fender pickguard and sell it "loaded" for enough money to get some S-500 pickups. I did that with some Lindy Fralin pickups that were in one of my Legacys.
Sun Jan 23, 2022 7:55 pm
lucky wrote:
Sun Jan 23, 2022 9:15 pm
yowhatsshakin wrote:lucky,
Note that the bottom potentiometer in you picture quoted below has "1Meg" printed on it whereas the top one says "250kΩ". Although that big red capacitor is in the way to read the value for the middle potentiometer, I bet ya is it 500kΩ. This means they are all what they are supposed to be for a Passive Treble and Bass (PTB) circuit, i.e. G&L's proprietary tone stack working on all 3 pickups together. Like I wrote before, if you just want to have a treble cut on 2 out of the 3 pickups, having 250kΩ pots across the board is more common.
- Jos
Mon Jan 24, 2022 11:59 am
Fri Mar 04, 2022 2:21 am
Mon Mar 07, 2022 2:04 pm
umma_gumma wrote:Wow, congratulations!
You did a great job cleaning that up!
I find you need to crank the G&L pickup heights up, to match a typical strat string-pickup distance & thus equivalent sound/volume. I'd wire it for the PTB circuit too.
Mon Mar 07, 2022 11:56 pm