Les Paul Pickup Mods

[Davestarr]

Hey, so I am looking at doing a ton of pickup Mods to a Les Paul (Coil Splitting, Phase Reversal). So first off my question for you guys is, what are all of the mods I could do to an HH Les Paul? Assuming I have 4 way conducting pickups, what is every last thing I can do to it. I would prefer not to have to cut any holes into my guitar, but what must be done, must be done.

[jdgm]

You will need 4x push-pull pots, probably 500k log with the correct shaft length. The wiring you want is equivalent to the old Schecter Z-plus layout which is very similar to the 90s J Page LP wiring which used 4 push-pulls. You get out-of-phase, series, and coil-tap on both p/us, which is about all you can get and no holes in your guitar..

 

http://www.guitarelectronics.com/category/wiring_resources_guitar_wiring_diagrams/

 

You have to be good at soldering; I'm not. I have 2 guitars with this configuration and I got an expert electronics guy to do it.

[Guest Farnsbarns]

Be careful for understand the difference between between coil splitting and coil tapping. People often confuse the two. Tapping involves rewinding the pickups to and adding a new connection halfway along the length of the coil wire to give a much lower (cooler) output where as splitting simply removes one of the coils from a humbucker and makes it single coil. There is nothing stopping you having both.