Bigmandot Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 I recently upgraded the pickups in my dot. While doing so I decided to re-wire the whole thing. I bought cts pots, orange drop capacitors .47mf. Stupidly I didn't pay enough attention to the previous wiring. I found a schematic on gibson website for a sheraton II b/c they didn't have one for the dot. Got it all together, nothing but grounding problems. I called my local repair guy and he said to use the same one from seymour duncan and wired it the one from sd was different somewhat in how the capacitors connected. Akthough this worked better than the gibson diagram. Did,. Question: does anyone have a schematic for a dot they can send me by email? An actual picture of the wiring harness would help too. Secondly should I use a single conductor shielded wiring? ! Used 20gauge solid wire and just ran s ground wire around all the pots Any thoughts or suggestiins would help Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueman335 Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 The Duncan site has a bunch of great wiring diagrams. Move the lug the cap's on if you need to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianh Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Go here: http://www.mojotone.com/guitar-parts/Guitar-wiring-Kits/ES-335-3-Way-Guitar-Wiring-Kit There are some photos and a PDF you can download that has the wiring diagram. BTW, a Dot has the same wiring as a standard, 2-humbucker Les Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrw1960 Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 The MOJOTONE Is good. Here is what I'm putting in mine,great components also. Depends on how much you want to spend. This is better for the buck IMPO. http://bcsguitars.com/?page_id=2760 EDIT: You already have the stuff. My apologies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterland Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I recently upgraded the pickups in my dot. While doing so I decided to re-wire the whole thing. I bought cts pots, orange drop capacitors .47mf. Stupidly I didn't pay enough attention to the previous wiring. I found a schematic on gibson website for a sheraton II b/c they didn't have one for the dot. Got it all together, nothing but grounding problems. I called my local repair guy and he said to use the same one from seymour duncan and wired it the one from sd was different somewhat in how the capacitors connected. Akthough this worked better than the gibson diagram. Did,. Question: does anyone have a schematic for a dot they can send me by email? An actual picture of the wiring harness would help too. Secondly should I use a single conductor shielded wiring? ! Used 20gauge solid wire and just ran s ground wire around all the pots Any thoughts or suggestiins would help Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterland Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I recently upgraded the pickups in my dot. While doing so I decided to re-wire the whole thing. I bought cts pots, orange drop capacitors .47mf. Stupidly I didn't pay enough attention to the previous wiring. I found a schematic on gibson website for a sheraton II b/c they didn't have one for the dot. Got it all together, nothing but grounding problems. I called my local repair guy and he said to use the same one from seymour duncan and wired it the one from sd was different somewhat in how the capacitors connected. Akthough this worked better than the gibson diagram. Did,. Question: does anyone have a schematic for a dot they can send me by email? An actual picture of the wiring harness would help too. Secondly should I use a single conductor shielded wiring? ! Used 20gauge solid wire and just ran s ground wire around all the pots Any thoughts or suggestiins would help Thanks I did the same thing last year and to this day one control is mis-mapped and I get plenty of static. That is not any easy install with such limited access to the inside. Crummy deal for sure, I was pretty excited because the new pups were 57s and was convinced this was going to be my new favorite until I actually plugged it in. I need to bite the bullet and pay someone. Hope you get it straightened out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNick Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Here is a link to a video for rewiring a semi-hollow. Hope it helps. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L2h2DBL3p0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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