[T Top split coil wiring diagram]

Hey

I have a 74 Les Paul custom with T Tops and Bill Lawrence L500 lead and rhythm pups.

I can split coil the BL pups but I'm after a wiring diagram to split the T Tops.

Can anyone help me here?

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I was just ready to hit the send button to Gibson when I thought I better have another look at the pot numbers.

This time I completely de soldered them and cleaned them up.

 

137743 now becomes 1377437. That makes it a 1974 Gibson Les Paul Custom 20th Anniversary model.

 

Whoohoo. Big smiles all round.

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Tried that. Just added to the confusion.

This is what I got so far.

 

Serial number stamped on back of headstock is 398733, suggesting a 1974 or 1975 vintage. Under the serial number is Made In USA.

 

Now is where it gets weird.

Pots are 70-026 being 300K.

137743 means it was made by CTS. 743 means the pot was made in 1977 in the 43rd week.

But it has a 6 digit serial number, not 7. So it could not have been made in 1977.

 

Pups are T Tops. I measured them at 7.38k.

 

Is it possible they assembled the guitar and not added wiring until a few years later.

Or possibly said let's assemble any left overs and wire them up and sell them.

 

 

Wish I had a dollar for every set of Boomers this girl has seen.

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Hey

 

Thought I'd sign up and hopefully get an expert to tell me when my guitar was made.

It's a 20th anniversary Les Paul Custom. Made sometime in the 70's.

I bet that cleared half the room. What a nightmare period.

 

Anyway, I bought this beast 2nd hand in the early eighties.

I changed the tuners to Schallers and the pups to Bill Lawrence R500/L500.

 

It now needs new pots, bridge, tuners blah blah blah.

 

A big project to say the least.

 

Cheers