Les Paul 50’s style wiring harness upgrade – Made using the best availalble Components USA CTS/SoZo
Price: £80
Les Paul Vintage 50’s Wiring Harness
This upgrade will not only provide you with improved ability to control your sound with better, custom spec quality pots, but you will also hear and feel the difference in your guitars amplified sound. This is the ideal way to improve and get the very best out of your guitar.
Most production guitars have been built using reasonable quality components (and in some cases inferior, cheap components) but if you want to get the very best out of your guitar, surely then manufacturers should be using the best quality parts available on the market. Upgrading your guitars electronics is a cost-effective way of vastly improving your guitar’s sound and ability to shape your tone.
1950s Les Paul wiring differs from modern wiring primarily in how the tone pots are connected to the volume pots. In 50s wiring, the tone pots are connected to the output of the volume pots, whereas in modern wiring, they are connected to the input of the volume pots. This difference impacts the interaction between the volume and tone controls, affecting the overall tone and how it changes when the volume is rolled back. 1950’s wiring will give you a brighter, more dynamic tone and more interactive controls.
This upgrade has been built using very high-quality components.
Components:
4 x CG CTS (USA) 500k Pots (Bridge Volume / Bridge Tone & Neck Volume & Neck Tone).
2 x SoZo (USA) Nexgen 0.022uf Vintage Yellow Mustard Capacitor
Solid 20 AWG tinned wire
Each component has been tested prior to build.
More details on each of the components below.
Supplied with simple instructions how to install.
More details of parts used:
CTS Premium 500k CG Short Split Shaft Pot 5% + – Tolerance
These US pots have been made to custom specs for a high-end guitar parts supplier in the UK. They feature a solid brass thread and shaft on a Bakelite base plate with a lower turning torque for the right balance between a smoother response and some resistance.
Features:
- 5% + – tolerance
- Solid Brass thread and shaft
- Bakelite base plate
- Lowest turning torque offered by CTS for an easier smoother more responsive control.
- Easy Solder
- Stainless Steel Dress Washer and Nickel Plated lock washer and nuts
Specs:
- 24 spline
- USA Imperial size
- For 3/8” (9.5mm) hole
- Length of threaded shaft ~ 9.5mm
- Shaft diameter – 9.4mm
- Base of pot diameter – 23.8mm
SoZo NEXGEN 0.022UF VINTAGE YELLOW MUSTARD CAPACITOR
SoZo’s Yellow Mustard line of polyester film tube amp capacitors have been thoroughly tested by LA’s best tube amp builders. They are handmade to exact vintage specs, and beat everything available, even in high gain situations.
These caps are successful recreations of the originals and are superbly built and excellent-sounding caps.
This is the classic value for humbuckers and P90’s
Solid 20awg tinned wire
Price: £80
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